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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679 (https://archive.ph/5Ba6o)

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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DreinMeinVein said:
Does he say something interesting? What, please, if you could spare the time?
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Poking through the transcript rather than watching it makes things more tolerable.

He acknowledges that Labour won with a smaller vote than Corbyn's labour lost on. He acknowledges that Labour only won because Reform split the centre-right vote; it would have been a blow-out for them otherwise. He's quoting anonymous sources saying the budget is going to be a complete disaster and that there are multiple people already touting to run a leadership challenge, including Streeting. That could simply be surface-level tea-leaf reading.

He names McSweeney as the power behind Starmer, but then says that his plan wasn't for Starmer to be PM. Rather, Starmer was meant to be a caretaker leader, until they had built enough momentum to take Labour into government under someone else (Streeting is his suggestion), and that it was the tory implosion that propelled Labour to government sooner than expected. Starmer, in his view, was not meant to be PM and is completely and utterly out of his depth. It's an angle I hadn't considered before, but given what we know in general, it makes a great deal of sense. It explains why Starmer suddenly dropped half his shadow cabinet and replaced them. They were all meant to be caretakers, but several had the political clout to challenge Starmer for the leadership, so they hazd to be sidelined before they could cause any damage. It explains why Millipede can just ignore Starmer's attempt to fire him; Starmer isn't actually in charge and Milliband knows it. It explains why he expended so much political capital trying to keep Sue Gray close by; Starmer knew he was a puppet and was trying to establish independence from McSweeney. It explains just about everything. It's very neat.

He goes on to suggest that the briefing against Streeting is actually meant to improve his image with anti-Starmer rebels. It consolidates his break with Starmer. The suggestion is that McSweeney is running this deliberately to foment a collapse of the current cabinet. We'll likely know if this is true if he takes a senior role with whoever replaces Starmer.

He mentions Burnham but it sounds like it's just the same rumour-mongering regarding him, except he adds that McSweeney and Burnham are at odds. Mentions a by-election in greater manchester as the way for Burnham to slip in (doesn't mention Rayner's Ashton constituency, but I'm certain that's where it would be), but that would only happen months from now. IMO Burnham is setting himself up for a challenge in a few years, whereas Streeting is setting up for a challenge immediately after the budget.

Finally shows a clip of Barry Gardener, who says the "fight" between Starmer and Streeting is Narcissus arguing with his reflection. IOW they're both shiny-faced marionettes, operating at the behest of McSweeney.

tl;dr his opinion is that Starmer wasn't meant to be PM, but only a caretaker until Streeting was ready for the role. McSweeney is running the show and is now manoeuvring to replace Starmer with Streeting after the budget. Budget will be an absolute shower and will send the country into an economic doom spiral.

Funny asides.

Transcript has a new name for Rachel:

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And an appropriate one for Nigel:

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FedPostalService said:
I’m in a pretty cosy middle class bubble and everyone is walking around with their Labour voting “this is fine” faces on.

When I head back to my traditional Labour voting Norf FC town to visit family my local pub is a tinder keg. This town is white as snow but one news incident from destroying the council offices in Minecraft.

We’re a country split into three groups: the deluded middle class, angry proles, and rapey foreigners.
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Very strange, my once BNP loving norffc hometown are cucked. Going into the boozer to listen to football fans that, not 10 years ago, were still cracking skulls and "say it 'ow it is, don't be a puff" levels of honest, are now "don't be mean against women, support trans, don't be racist". It's a real hammer blow to the cortex trying to understand what changed.

I think spirits have been broken. I have seen local websites for local people be infiltrated with mods who, just like everywhere else, seem to be pushing the message and curating the conversation, how that has infected real life I don't know, but it seems to have.
Social engineers working OT i suppose.
A-Logato said:
Perhaps it might just be where you live but the vibe around here is very pro mass deportations but they don't want to put the effort in to get rid of them because that might effect their next job centre visit.
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Interesting.

I wonder if the whole country is in a state of decision making, the instant after an event but before the mind decides to fight or flight. Some have already chose flight, and God willing, I will be one next year, others seem to be frozen, just waiting for the event to unfold before they choose.

I wonder what a prolonged stay in a state of waiting, like coiled springs, does the collective unconscious on a long enough time line? Do people permanently break and become placid, cowardly creatures?
 
Nuclear Reactor fans rejoice- Wales is getting the UK’s first small modular nuclear reactor (IF the fucking contractor finishes it, big X to Doubt given previous projects). I like nuclear im staying positive : )
Labour only got in because everyone was sick of the Tories, not because they wanted Labour/Starmer, I thought this was a known fact?
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Nuclear Reactor fans rejoice- Wales is getting the UK’s first small modular nuclear reactor (IF the fucking contractor finishes it, big X to Doubt given previous projects). I like nuclear im staying positive : )
Labour only got in because everyone was sick of the Tories, not because they wanted Labour/Starmer, I thought this was a known fact?
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One in the eye for Miliband and definitely the right call for Wylfa.

If only Aberthaw Power Station could be adapted to become a Nuclear Power Station as well.

Some similarly happy news from Lancashire as their new gritters are named:


 
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God, Streeting has got to be the biggest faggot in politics. Caught absolutely red handed and now completely adament that he's been stitched up because now his image is in pieces and it's a huge knock to his leadership bid (that he's not doing I swear)
 
teriyakiburns said:
>Professor Dumblethaw
I can already hear the trannies seething .
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The heat coming off them would, ironically, melt the snow if it fell.

'Trannies Anger Kills Snowflakes'...

Some news from GB News:

* Cadbury family’s 200-year chocolate legacy comes to an end with sale of company

* State pension shake-up could see retirement pushed back to 80

* Manchester hailed as UK’s economic success story as business confidence rises across the North West

* Rachel Reeves hit with urgent warning as Sweden's pension disaster exposes huge 'danger' in her plans

* Rachel Reeves leaves London's housing market paralysed as Budget mansion tax fears sparks plan in sales

* State pension update: Waspi compensation decision to be RECONSIDERED as undisclosed 'evidence' comes to light

* Keir Starmer 'faces fresh General Election if Labour rebels pull off coup against PM'

* POLL OF THE DAY: Should there be a General Election if Labour MPs oust Keir Starmer? ;)

* 'Saying one thing, doing another!' Tom Harwood up in arms as Mark White reports on Channel migrants 'terrorising' seaside towns

* Keir Starmer's National Security Adviser 'contacted Moscow in bid to build bridges with Vladimir Putin'

* BBC engulfed in yet another bias scandal as Tories call for investigation into relationship with Plaid Cymru

* Keir Starmer now says SORRY to Wes Streeting just 24 hours after frenzied No10 'briefing war' broke out

* 'Death threat' graffiti directed at Nigel Farage spotted in London

* Richard Tice lifts lid on 'four more Labour MPs' planning 'leadership challenges' against Keir Starmer: 'Sharpening the knives!'
 
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I went down to my local Tesco the otherday in the evening and usually I might see one or two ethnics but that night they were fucking everywhere and it illicit a uncomfortable feeling in me, every aisle had at least two families of them and even though white people were still the overwhelming majority of what i saw it was still enough to make me notice. Most of them looked normal, no burkas or anything a couple of headscarves.

Is this how it starts?
 
Eekum Bokum said:
I was more questioning if this is how you start to become a racist. Becuase if it is then i'm fucked.
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I've become incredibly racist over the last few years, and it does indeed start with just seeing one too many brown people when you're in a bad mood.
 
The real truth bomb is realising just how racist the imports are. Growing up it was pretty common for them to just gawk at you, drop slurs at you and all around try and make you feel as uncomfortable as possible, even had them spit at me a few times. I'd very happily see every single one gone without a second thought.
 
It is not racism to recognise the inherent differences between the races. It is not racism to be proud of your ethnic heritage and to want a homeland where your cultural traditions and background are celebrated and preserved.

Will people stop cucking themselves by seeing this as racist? Racism is random, unprovoked attacks on someone based solely on their skin colour, because you don't like it.

Calling yourself racist is playing their game. You owe better to yourself than that.
 
Otterly said:
I’ve been spat at and told to cover up. I was wearing a knee length skirt, a long sleeved top with a high neck, thick tights, and long boots with no heels. These people are incompatible with our way of life
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It's common knowledge not to go to certain clubs/bars in town because you WILL be groped by Persian men. How can 'feminists' talk about rape culture in the West and how white boys are twisted by the male dominated west and inceldom, and yet completely deny any possibility that browns are raised in a much more rapey women-hating girl-selling cousin marrying society?? The amount of places in Bham where you do not see women walking around alone because it isn't safe is appalling.
 
Eekum Bokum said:
I was more questioning if this is how you start to become a racist. Becuase if it is then i'm fucked.
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Sir this is a Greggs thread.

Here’s a homework project. It crowd, window cleaner episode. The window cleaners reaction face when Roy is shouting I’m not a window cleaner.

Practise it. It scares the boat people off.
 
Christmas products in the UK have fallen off so hard, the Festive Bake this year is OK but nowhere near it's former glory. I was fat and had 2, Starbucks Eggnog lattes used to be their only good item, but now they are shit.

We are not even going to talk about Cadbury.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Sir this is a Greggs thread.

Here’s a homework project. It crowd, window cleaner episode. The window cleaners reaction face when Roy is shouting I’m not a window cleaner.

Practise it. It scares the boat people off.
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"The window cleaner"?

His name is Limmy, sir.
 
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