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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.

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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I somewhat disagree; this is Starmer prepping to scrap it without admitting "defeat." I admit it's a small victory though, because the white women in Ofcom have stupid powers.

The appointment of the Iraqi guy has gone awful for Nigel. Even the most sycophantic, like June Slater, are calling it a bad move. She is technically inner circle, as she contacts Nigel. I keep hearing from a few posts and videos that even Tice is not happy. Yeah, Nige, maybe hiring an Iraqi tax dodger might not go well with millions of British nationalists.
 
So, Southern Water have done goofed, hard, and thousands of people in Kent and Sussex have been without water for days.

There are massive building works across these counties to ram in more and more people, but the infrastructure cannot cope as it is,and the government have decided to scrap council elections this year,because they are foisting another level of bureaucracy onto people with a Mayor.

The mood, from what I hear from family and friends down there is apoplectic. No water, failing infrastructure, ongoing drive to continue shoving Barrat shitboxes up at speed to house everyone flooding in, in spite of the fact everything is going to shit and the right to vote for a new council taken away from them.
 
I somewhat disagree; this is Starmer prepping to scrap it without admitting "defeat." I admit it's a small victory though, because the white women in Ofcom have stupid powers.
Yup. It got to the stage where they had to get people who knew what they were doing involved to start mapping out the technical aspects of developing it, at which point it promptly went the way of all overly ambitious and highly impractical government IT projects.
 
he’s doing something. If we were all politically active, maybe we’d be able to make a bit of a difference, no?
Silly woman thinks cheerleading the uniparty is doing something. We've known for decades there's no way to vote yourself out of this problem. This Simpson's classic says everything you need to know about voting and being politically active in a democracy.

The part of the Digital ID that would be good - the part where illegals can no longer work, is scrapped. The part that is bad - the part where we have to have Digital ID to live a life, is not scrapped.
It wouldn't work any way. They would share a digital id the same way they share drivers licenses and everything else. Uber drivers and food delivery wogs already do it. This doesn't stop any of the under the table work which they all do.
 
This Simpson's classic says everything you need to know about voting and being politically active in a democracy.
Usually I reckon our resident token Black Bastard @FedPostalService is a bit overenthusiastic with his bacon detecting, but you're really proving his point here, would it be pipe bombs or suicide pills more your style officer? :smug:
 
Usually I reckon our resident token Black Bastard @FedPostalService is a bit overenthusiastic with his bacon detecting, but you're really proving his point here, would it be pipe bombs or suicide pills more your style officer? :smug:
Could you put that in English please? All I can make out is you like Muslim cock in your throat like he does.
 
Silly woman thinks cheerleading the uniparty is doing something. We've known for decades there's no way to vote yourself out of this problem.
I’m not talking about cheering the uni party. I mean getting involved locally. local politics is more important than we think - choices on schooling, and council spending for example can be well influenced locally. If you don’t want your kids indoctrinated by ga grooming shit, you’ve got to turn up and shame some fuckers for it. In person.
Think about things like those mums reading out aloud the gay grooming books to the school board and being told it’s obscene and to stop. There is no better way (bar hanging the lot of them ) to expose such books because the average person immediately realises that if it’s too obscene for adults it shouldn’t be for kids.
If everyone on here got involved at a local level, there would be small gains. Small checks that make bad things harder to push through. Another example: the Cockburn Society, and why they were formed and what they do.
I think reform will be hobbled by the same uniparty Blob antics that get everyone, I don’t think they’re going to get much done and I think our Welsh friend is optimistic, but I cannot fault him for at least trying.
My own preference would be hauling every single one of the rats back to Blair out of their gated holes and (redacted) them but I realise that’s a little spicy for most. However, with the loss of council elections (see - local power again..) people may soon realise that voting doesn’t do much. Seizing control locally can get you a lot further.
 
Could you put that in English please? All I can make out is you like Muslim cock in your throat like he does.
N'wah, not believing in democracy is fair enough, wanting to top yourself because there's no point is also fair enough, if a bit grim. What's spastic is not committing to either because you're either demoralized or a payrolled demoralizer, you're a spacker either way regardless.
I mean getting involved locally. local politics is more important than we think - choices on schooling, and council spending for example can be well influenced locally.
No no no no no, can't be doing anything actually useful/productive, that's not compliant with the threat reduction matrix.
 
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I’m not talking about cheering the uni party. I mean getting involved locally. local politics is more important than we think - choices on schooling, and council spending for example can be well influenced locally. If you don’t want your kids indoctrinated by ga grooming shit, you’ve got to turn up and shame some fuckers for it. In person.
Obviously we don't want to give away too much personal stuff here, but I've seen that in action and it really doesn't influence much. I've been active, I've been to council meetings and it doesn't matter who is in charge they never listen. You win one victory and two weeks later you lose it because you don't matter and protests don't matter. How many places have done everything short of burning down hotels still end up with hundreds of rapists delivered to their door step? I'm not just being black pilled here but I've seen local issues on everything from houses being built, new fees being brought in and all the migrant stuff and it doesn't matter how much noise you make they refuse to listen. Everyone hates the migrants, even other migrants and everyone says the borders can be controlled and aren't. We've had millions march on London and what's happened? Nothing. When people protest locally nothing happens but people get arrested for saying the truth with a six o clock raid. Political activism in modern Britain just gets you put on a watch list and if you're too noisy you start getting knocks on the door about being an extremist.

Both me and you went to bat for the Dundee lass when so many condemned her on the farms. And what happened there? Nothing changed in any meaningful way. She didn't get her charges dropped and Dundee is still overrun with child groomers. If I thought it would have an impact I would be at every meeting possible shouting my lungs out. But I've seen how ineffective everything is. The local councils don't have any real power to stop what is going on and when they are on your side they're overruled by West minster and their infinite amount of monopoly money. If you have any examples of local action working I would like to see them because I've never witnessed it. Even when you get something delayed it still happens once the people opposed to it lose momentum. Which will always happen and the powers that be know they just need to lay off for a few weeks and try again (digital ID stuff is a good example).
I think reform will be hobbled by the same uniparty Blob antics that get everyone, I don’t think they’re going to get much done and I think our Welsh friend is optimistic, but I cannot fault him for at least tryin
Optimistic is one thing. I think we were all hopeful Farage might be a useful wanker but he's already torpedoed the boat before it left the harbour. All he had to do was not left in Boris's pet Iranian and yet he did it.
My own preference would be hauling every single one of the rats back to Blair out of their gated holes and (redacted) them but I realise that’s a little spicy for most. However, with the loss of council elections (see - local power again..) people may soon realise that voting doesn’t do much. Seizing control locally can get you a lot further.
I don't think you're any where near as extreme as you think you are. Us bongs have a very black and white level of tolerance and we're getting to the black level. If someone came along and said every bakery in the land was going to be turned into a gas oven to deal with them the general public would cheer. We're getting to critical stages and people are aware and are starting to struggle. Reform is the final nice solution and Farage has fucked it up.
What's spastic is not committing to either because you're either demoralized or a payrolled demoralizer, you're a spacker either way regardless.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Did you take too many legal highs?
 
I have no idea what you're talking about. Did you take too many legal highs?
I'm talking about your answer to everything being "don't do anything anything, just lay down and die" whilst subtly hinting at wanting to burn down a government building, which is it that you're actually advocating?
I noootice you'll manage WORDS WORDS WORDS to tell us all there is no hope/nothing matters/ruin is inevitable etc, yet when called out on this you'll just resort to frankly low effort insults, you can do better surely.
 
it doesn't matter who is in charge they never listen.
Then you take charge. I know I’m being combative here, but at the end of the day, if everyone just said ‘fuck this, I’ve had enough’ and DID something, we’d be better off. Covid bullshit stopped when enough people stopped complying.
don't think you're any where near as extreme as you think you are. Us bongs have a very black and white level of tolerance and we're getting to the black level.
Good. That’s what we need. O don’t think I’m extreme at all, I’m a mild kind if person, o think what’s happening to us is extreme, and its has to stop. But it isn’t going to stop until people do something. Voting in reform is going g to be what people turn to, and I think they’re going to be disappointed. We need people to understand WHY reform can’t/wont change things. We need people to be angry. Really really angry. We need to go from ‘well that’s not cricket’ to ‘now just a minute…’ and then we need to raise the black flag and spit on our hands, as it were.
I know there’s no easy way out of all this. We are going to have to dig ourselves out, and its not going to be very nice
 
I'm talking about your answer to everything being "don't do anything anything, just lay down and die" whilst subtly hinting at wanting to burn down a government building, which is it that you're actually advocating?
I noootice you'll manage WORDS WORDS WORDS to tell us all there is no hope/nothing matters/ruin is inevitable etc, yet when called out on this you'll just resort to frankly low effort insults, you can do better surely.
You can burn down a government building if you want. It won't make any difference and you will probably end up on CCTV and caught.

Laying down and dying is a stupid idea. But directly confronting an over zealous police state that wants you to out yourself as a trouble maker is also stupid. The laws around public disorder are loose enough to get you for making too much noise and hate crime laws will get you if you whisper "nigger".

My message is one of hope but caution. Do not throw your life away being a visible problem with no impact on the situation. Your family needs to be as strong as it can be if things get bad and you spending years in prison for attending a protest is stupid. Do not anger the police state looking to crack your skull and become a victim for no benefit.

Then you take charge. I know I’m being combative here, but at the end of the day, if everyone just said ‘fuck this, I’ve had enough’ and DID something, we’d be better off. Covid bullshit stopped when enough people stopped complying.
Combative is good. Keeps people sharp.

Taking charge of councils doesn't impact much. Epping council did everything they could to get rid of the migrant hotel and it never made a difference. West minster has too much control and the best you can do is get them on a legal technicality. But then they buy another hotel out and dump them there instead.

As things heat up you need to be in a position where you're ready to survive a serious civil conflict and assist in your own communities protection. Women need to know medical training and have supplies stocked up, Men need to be used to working together and be informed on ways to defend their area. Food stock piled, water prepared. If it goes hot or not the collapse is coming or a serious conflict when millions of fighting age men need removing and will try to salt the Earth behind them.

I don't believe you can talk your way out of this even if people in charge were willing to listen. They're actively hostile to you and want you to tell them you're their enemy so they can bring down what power they have on your head. I don't want my family left undefended when they drop a migrant hotel on our door step and there's no Dad around to protect them.
 
It won't make any difference
directly confronting an over zealous police state that wants you to out yourself as a trouble maker is also stupid.
Do not anger the police state looking to crack your skull and become a victim for no benefit.
Don't do anything and be a good slave? This is why nobody will remember your name.
I'm afraid you're the bad stereotype that the yanks make fun of, and are not to be taken seriously.
 
X/Twitter has now banned Grok from generating sexualised images of women and children after the UK made it illegal to create “non-consensual intimate” images. However, it is still responding to requests to put men in bikinis or sexual positions (based, lemme see those Marco Rubitties)

Have we all seen the Chinese Super Embassy's secret cellars?
The newspaper shared an unredacted document showing an underground network of 208 secret rooms below the site that could be built alongside some of Britain's most sensitive cables.

The drawings show there will be a room alongside cables transmitting financial data to the City of London, as well as email and message traffic from internet users.

The Telegraph also revealed there would be a hot-air extraction system in the room adjacent to the data which could suggest heat-generating equipment such as advanced computers.
 
The Prophet would hit you with his car for glowing this hard.
He didn't say you had to go out murdering people. Just do something, @Otterly just advocated getting involved at the local level.

Succeed or fail it honestly feels better to actually take some action and try and than to sit at home and do nothing. Speaking from experience there. Furthermore, you meet people, finding others who share your views as well as learning names and people responsible for the bad actions. You don't go from doing nothing to having an effective protest or pressure movement or political group. You don't go from never having done something to being an effective political activist. Those first steps of simply getting involved at a local level are often vital. They also help change political views of the public over time as you make things more visible. Much of what we learn and discuss is precisely because of people going out and asking questions or raising issues to a wider audience. It's absolutely worth doing. And, as I said, it makes you feel better about yourself to speak back.
 
@Kofi Drinka , the old Czech president Vaclav Havel wrote an excellent book on surviving when your country is seemingly going batshit insane and you’re not allowed to do anything, useful or otherwise. It’s called ‘Living in Truth’, and it’s bloody brilliant. He wrote it while living under the old communist regime in Czechoslovakia. I need to dig my copy out and read it again because it’s very pertinent for these times, I think. Obviously there are differences (no migration issues, for a start), but the core principle is still relevant.
 
You can burn down a government building if you want. It won't make any difference and you will probably end up on CCTV and caught.
I have no intention of burning down anything, or directly injuring or killing anyone (unless of course I’m forced to to ensure my own life or the life of a loved one.)
But there are plenty of things I do that make people speak to each other, open people’s eyes IRL etc. Some of those people might just have a hand on minor lever of power for something locally. Don’t underestimate what one person standing up and saying ‘ no this isn’t right’ can do - the majority of people know its not right they’re just too cowardly to say so openly, but once a person does, they’ll nod along, and you’ve won hearts and minds. And enough hearts and minds and you can start actually doing the stuff. And how many people do you think read the Covid threads on here and decided not to get jabbed? That’s reach, right?
Don’t give up. If the outcome was inevitable they wouldn’t need to stomp on us so hard.
Rainbows on the line below. Anyway I hope you’re all having a lovely day.
why we allow these people into the country is a mystery to me. Oh wait, Blair (spit) and his 48 club or whatever its called
 
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