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A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.
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It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.
 
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Made In Wales said:
A good point, but the Right are usually seen as the kind and caring ones.

We don't want to become the screaming hoardes or arseholes - we'll let the angry Left carry on being that and we'll have a good laugh at their expense.
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You think the Right are seen as the kind and caring ones ? Oh fucking please.

We're the nasty bastards who hate minorities, don't want free handouts to every ponce under the sun and want every criminal locked away in a ( excuse Americanism ) "Federal pound me in the ass prison" ( Office Space ).

The Left are the soft, lovey dovey ones that think with their feelings, are stuck in a dream where everyone should be holding hands and singing kumbaya and the state has a magic money tree for all the work-shy and a warm comfort blanket to tuck you in at night.

Even the angry nasty Antifa Left that actually think they want a ruck ( but would run mile from a real fight with real men ) think they are caring and kind compared to the Nazis on the Right ( which we surely all are, of course, nobody is a moderate in their world view ).
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Reeves is going to slash the Cash ISA limit to 12k a year.

For those like me who are invested in S&S ISAs this isn't an issue, but this is maddening and yet ANOTHER attack on Nicolas, 30 ans.
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Urgh, I can't believe my initial response was "oh well, its not as bad as it could've been" what with previous teasers being an even lower limit. Do you have a link for this? I take it the 12k is an individual's total across both cash and S&S?

Edit: never mind about the link, I got off my lazy arse and googled it. Sounds like it is a flat cap across both cash and S&S.
 
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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Less than 24 hours until the chancellor cries on camera again. What are your predictions for tomorrow?
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I'm hoping for a disastrous budget that causes a Lizz Truss-esque response so the UK can finally see this government kicked out into the dirt. However, that's unlikely to happen, so probably more of the same stealth tax bullshit, that will continue pounding the people paying for the gibs classes, so the government can keep burning money on the altar of the nanny government god.

It's amazing that Labour came into office boasting of the Conservative Government's incompetence in leaving a financial black hole for them, when they knew they were going to continue growing it by throwing money into it, just boggles the mind. Without some Milei-esque figure, to significantly reduce the size of the state, and genuinely serious hardcore structural reforms, the UK will continue in its managed decline.
 
There will be new taxes, and increases in taxes. Pensions will be means-tested (dad is livid about the mere rumour of this one). Cash ISAs will be capped at a stupidly low value to force people into stocks and shares. My little investment, such as it is, will either crash or sky-rocket as a result.

Also: Kier Starmer will tell everyone his father was a toolmaker.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Less than 24 hours until the chancellor cries on camera again. What are your predictions for tomorrow?
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Probably just increased taxes and they'll go after saving accounts, can't have something the government isn't taxing. I don't see them going after the foreign aid, money for foreigners or the general "gibs" budget (really just money we give out for free in general) since it'll upset their back bench, god forbid Mohamed doesn't get his free money for being brown and everyone classed as retarded gets a free car.
 
I wouldn't have a problem with motobility cards if they were bright pink and had a large MOTOBILITY logo on the side. If people want their cheap cars they get to go out with the stigma.
 
Made In Wales said:
A good point, but the Right are usually seen as the kind and caring ones.
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Earnestly, I have yet to see what benefit being passive brought the right-wing. It feels like we're experiencing marginal trajectory improvement because a wog killed some children (getting people angry, bringing migrant hotels into fucs), Trump got rid of USAID (thus de-financing several propaganda outlets, some most notably affiliated with the BBC), and Musk bought Twitter (allowing uncensored shit to reach the masses). We never would have moved in a positive trajectory if we kept to the status quo and our situation is largely the benefit of having a means of sharing shit uncensored on Twitter because otherwise news and discussion would've just been suppressed and we'd just be fed lies and force to tut.

I also think that depiction of the right-wing is typically right-centric to begin with, Normies don't really pay attention to factionalism and political alignment, more or less following specific figures/parties or paying close attention to the issues they only care about. The only people that are immersed enough in the right/left dichotomy have usually picked a side anyway and unless they were lying about their original beliefs, whether the vibes are good or bad won't really push them to other side. It's not pointed as you in particular but this sentiment has been prevalent across most of the right-wingosphere for decades now, and the first "Le Far-right" leader to get elected in Europe outside of Orban was an Italian lady being vaguely pissed off on camera enough times. But maybe that's just how they talk.

Also, isn't Farage's whole claim to fame based on the fact he can be a bit of an arsehole? And outside of the sanctioned time do so too (PMQ). Rupert Lowe meanwhile is shameless about singling people out on Twitter and not hiding his sentiments on immigration behind euphemism. And Tommy Robinson's prevalence can also be in part because he looks and sounds a bit 'ard and that gives the idea off the impression he'd actually punch somebody unlike the current frontbench. There's also the somewhat depressing fact that the UK's most prominent online political commentator's most circulated quote is, "I wouldn't even rape you." Maybe it's a middle-class/working-class divide or old/young but I think the latter in both cases are endeared more to well-meaning cunts than they are to sophistication and etiquette. When actual prestige returns to parliament maybe we can consider a return to sensibility but we currently have guys in parliament who conspired to build an airport in Pakistan on our dime so fuck 'em.
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Less than 24 hours until the chancellor cries on camera again. What are your predictions for tomorrow?
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Cuts.
Unironically.
 
Russian Bot #5361 said:
I'm hoping for a disastrous budget that causes a Lizz Truss-esque response so the UK can finally see this government kicked out into the dirt. However, that's unlikely to happen, so probably more of the same stealth tax bullshit, that will continue pounding the people paying for the gibs classes, so the government can keep burning money on the altar of the nanny government god.

It's amazing that Labour came into office boasting of the Conservative Government's incompetence in leaving a financial black hole for them, when they knew they were going to continue growing it by throwing money into it, just boggles the mind. Without some Milei-esque figure, to significantly reduce the size of the state, and genuinely serious hardcore structural reforms, the UK will continue in its managed decline.
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Imagine how much money we could save if we didn’t accept “small boat” men, and weren’t sending endless gibs to Ukraine.
 
Trial by jury is to be abolished for all charges except murder, rape and manslaughter, assuming that the retarded nigger responsible can pilot the required legislation through Parliament.
 
Smyrna said:
Trial by jury is to be abolished for all charges except murder, rape and manslaughter, assuming that the retarded nigger responsible can pilot the required legislation through Parliament.
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We've had trial by jury since the 12th century and now Labour are handing most cases to our glorious bench of judges which are either ex-communists, lefty Green voters, retarded women, niggers or all of the above.

I'm getting tired, lads. Weekly thoughts about moving abroad changing to daily thoughts.
 
Smyrna said:
Trial by jury is to be abolished for all charges except murder, rape and manslaughter, assuming that the retarded nigger responsible can pilot the required legislation through Parliament.
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Vote centre left labour

Get full blown fascism.

Holy fucking shit, they barely had a mandate to begin with but what the fuck is going on?
 
Smyrna said:
Trial by jury is to be abolished for all charges except murder, rape and manslaughter, assuming that the retarded nigger responsible can pilot the required legislation through Parliament.
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Seriously? Please tell me you’re joking.

Edit: nvm, just read this piece on it. Yes, let’s deal with the slow justice system by removing the justice part of it, that definitely helps.

Also, Lammy whining that only 12% of judges are forruns, gtfo. That’s a good thing, idiot lump.
 
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Cuts? I think @>IMPLYING left an 'n' out ;)

Removing Trial by Jury won't speed up prosecutions, moreover the amount of appeals will skyrocket as the sentences handed down will not be fair and just - and also we have that age old problem of Prison overcrowding.

Just got back from a meeting with fellow 'like minded people' and it looks as if after tomorrow we'll be needing to prepare for 'earlier than expected changes'. Nigel has written to all party members stating that we need to be ready 'just in case' and we'll also have to have to keep an eye of 'defection watch' until Friday 19th December - will Clive Lewis and others stand down in protest, can Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner etc. put in a leadership challenge (will they be allowed to) and will it be a particularly unhappy Christmas for Starmer as the party teeters on the brink?

I'll post a thread tomorrow for the Budget, would be interesting as always to hear the hot takes of everybody here.
 
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