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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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Crunkle said:
We're not as performative or as loud as the French but everyone has a breaking point.

Read some of the stories from the riots and revolts we had.
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Thr breaking point that mattered was around 2010 or so when the coalition could have genuinely undone the then recent labour changes and invested in growth to compensate for the aging population's increasing need for social services.

Easier to hire a million commonwealth migrants, the NHS has recruiting agents overseas. Because that's better than training British citizens for some reason.
 
BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
I think Anglosphere natives specifically put up with a hell of a lot more tyranny than anyone else in the West.
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That's the British "stiff upper lip ol' chap" coming to bite us in the arse. We will put up with far more than anyone else but all that does is keep the frustration bottled up until it reaches a fever pitch and then it's mayhem.

France, for example, riots at the drop of a hat and it's done next to nothing for them except train the best riot police in the world(!) while when our moment comes it will take everyone by surprise and before they have a chance to react we've gone and conquered the world again and when they ask the new redcoats why we did it we'll simply reply with;

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for him.

Joking aside don't take the lack of civil disobedience as a sign of British weakness. British anger shows itself in a very different way than the continentals or the Americans.

How do you know Caesar is truly angry? when he's calm.
 
Eekum Bokum said:
France, for example, riots at the drop of a hat and it's done next to nothing for them except train the best riot police in the world(!)
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France riot and strike then vote the same people into power over and over again to fuck them. They’re way more cucked than us.
 
Sounds like Labour are trying to out-flank Reform (live). They've just announced plans to reduce low skill work visas by "up to" 50,000 over the coming year, as well as "ramping up standards" for student visas, and have said that visas for healthcare workers from abroad need to end.

Details seem sparse. It seems good at first glance, but it's obvious they're just going to massage the numbers, ignore the real problem of uncontrolled migration, and hope it's enough to tamp down the nation's smouldering resentment before it bursts back into flame.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Sounds like Labour are trying to out-flank Reform (live). They've just announced plans to reduce low skill work visas by "up to" 50,000 over the coming year, as well as "ramping up standards" for student visas, and have said that visas for healthcare workers from abroad need to end.

Details seem sparse. It seems good at first glance, but it's obvious they're just going to massage the numbers, ignore the real problem of uncontrolled migration, and hope it's enough to tamp down the nation's smouldering resentment before it bursts back into flame.
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Smacks of desperation, the rebels in the party will demand greater flexibility or else.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Sounds like Labour are trying to out-flank Reform (live). They've just announced plans to reduce low skill work visas by "up to" 50,000 over the coming year, as well as "ramping up standards" for student visas, and have said that visas for healthcare workers from abroad need to end.

Details seem sparse. It seems good at first glance, but it's obvious they're just going to massage the numbers, ignore the real problem of uncontrolled migration, and hope it's enough to tamp down the nation's smouldering resentment before it bursts back into flame.
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Eekum Bokum said:
That's the British "stiff upper lip ol' chap" coming to bite us in the arse. We will put up with far more than anyone else but all that does is keep the frustration bottled up until it reaches a fever pitch and then it's mayhem.

France, for example, riots at the drop of a hat and it's done next to nothing for them except train the best riot police in the world(!) while when our moment comes it will take everyone by surprise and before they have a chance to react we've gone and conquered the world again and when they ask the new redcoats why we did it we'll simply reply with;

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for him.

Joking aside don't take the lack of civil disobedience as a sign of British weakness. British anger shows itself in a very different way than the continentals or the Americans.

How do you know Caesar is truly angry? when he's calm.
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This reminds me of one of Jim Telfer's famous speeches to the British & Irish Lions squad in South Africa in 1997:

"When an animal is wounded it returns in frenzy.

It doesn’t think. It fights for its very existence.

The lion waits, and at the right point, it goes for the jugular.

And the life disappears."

This is what we must do - we've wounded Labour badly in the recent votes, they are angry and will fight back. We wait until the right moment and then we go for the jugular - then it's game over, there's no coming back from that for them.

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Which also puts them at loggerheads with the EU as they too are demanding more student places.

What's it going to be, shitting in the streets or students who can at least poo in the loo?
 
BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
Based on everyone's support for Brexit, it seems people would prefer a horde of jeets than Romanians and Poles.
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The idea of Brexit was 0 foreigners. If you would have told us the vote was really between choosing do we want Eastern euros trash or niggers and jeets then we would have probably stayed if we knew what we were actually voting for.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Sounds like Labour are trying to out-flank Reform (live). They've just announced plans to reduce low skill work visas by "up to" 50,000 over the coming year, as well as "ramping up standards" for student visas, and have said that visas for healthcare workers from abroad need to end.

Details seem sparse. It seems good at first glance, but it's obvious they're just going to massage the numbers, ignore the real problem of uncontrolled migration, and hope it's enough to tamp down the nation's smouldering resentment before it bursts back into flame.
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The thing that gets me is the specific wording. '50k fewer' from the total figure of work visas from last year is still around 200k (rounded up).
There were 241,719 visas granted to main applicants in all work categories in the year ending September 2024, 28% fewer than the previous year, but 76% higher than 2019.
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It's a very small portion in the overall figure of 700k+ net a year. Almost 90k are from asylum seekers (which includes boat-crossers), another 90k are family visas. They raised the income threshold for family visas not that long ago, but it didn't apply to people who already met the requirement prior to the rule change.

Funny thing is about Labour doing this now is that they're actually just recycling plans scrapped by the Tories, apparently. (Can't be overstated how trying to cater to business/corporate interests helped bring about that party's downfall.)
Skilled migrants will need degrees to come to UK
Skilled foreign workers will be required to have a degree to get a job in the UK under new laws to reduce net migration.

Sir Keir Starmer is proposing to return the threshold for skilled foreign workers to graduate level after that was scrapped by Boris Johnson and replaced with a points-based immigration system requiring only the equivalent of an A-level and based on salaries.

Under the new laws, to be announced on Monday, employers will still be allowed to recruit lower-skilled workers using the points-based system – but only if they are in critical sectors such as IT, construction and engineering. These areas are deemed by the Government to be suffering shortages that are damaging the economy.

Employers will only be allowed to hire overseas workers on a temporary, time-limited basis, and will have to demonstrate to a new Government body that they are training British workers through apprenticeships and other schemes to plug the skills gaps.

Writing for The Telegraph, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, said the new system would be underpinned by “five core principals”.

“First, migration must come down so the system is properly managed and controlled,” she said. “Second, the immigration system must be linked to skills and training requirements here in the UK, so that no industry is allowed to rely on immigration to fill its skills shortages.

“Third, the system must be fair and effective, with clearer rules agreed by Parliament in areas like respect for family life, to prevent confusion or perverse outcomes.

“Fourth, the rules must be respected and enforced – from our crackdown on illegal working to the deportation of foreign criminals. Finally, the system must support integration and community cohesion.

“These changes are essential to end the chaos left by the Tories in the immigration system, and to regain control.”
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The reforms are part of the Prime Minister’s attempts to combat the rise of Reform UK, which inflicted big losses on Labour in this month’s local elections. This was partly blamed on a failure to tackle immigration.
Labour ministers will accuse the Tories of presiding over an influx of lower skilled workers that pushed up net migration to a record 906,000 in the year ending June 2023.

Figures published on Sunday have shown that the proportion of skilled worker visas below graduate level increased from 10 per cent in 2021 to around 50 per cent in 2024.
Labour will not, however, set a target on how far it will bring down net migration. Forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility project that it would settle at 340,000, well above pre-Brexit levels, without further significant action.
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So nothing changes, the amount of fake degrees from niggerland and jeetland is through the roof and not vetted.

The problem with Starmer is his unparalleled arrogance; he thinks people are stupid, but they are not.
 
A bunch of union flags went up for VE day around my way, with more than a few being on brand new wall-mounted flag poles. The latter haven't come down yet. Just something I noticed.
 
It's funny, Starmer could announce death camps for migrants and mandatory scone breaks and it'd still be considered too little, too late. His party has been in power for an entire YEAR and it's taken this long to come up with drastic action for the number 1 voting issue in the UK.

Funnily enough all of this reminds me a lot of David Cameron, he started watching his support get cannibalised by UKIP so figured he'd do something to shut them up for good: Give them a vote for Brexit and when it inevitably fails then UKIP are dead in the water. But then it didn't happen so the Conservative government decided to be spiteful by following through with Brexit and immediately opening up the borders to more Pakis, Indians and Um-Bongos. The public want to cut immigration? Well let's just see about that!

So the care thing looks like it's been announced so that when carers leave and there's a care crisis he can smugly go "I told you so" and import a gorillion bomalians... except anyone who knows anything about care workers at the moment knows that White British carers are stuck on 18 hour contracts with no overtime so that they can't be considered full time workers, whereas our colourful carers are working 50+ hour weeks so they hit the salary threshold. It'd be fixed almost instantly as care homes would have to either cut customers or bite the bullet and finally give Doris a liveable wage.
 
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except anyone who knows anything about care workers at the moment knows that White British carers are stuck on 18 hour contracts with no overtime so that they can't be considered full time workers, whereas our colourful carers are working 50+ hour weeks so they hit the salary threshold.
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So at the moment from within the care sector it is indeed being over ran with foreigners in even some of the most white areas of the country. The amount of sponsorship contracts that are being handed out is utterly insane and yes they are brining their families along with them once they gain this sponsorship and setting up near where these homes are (as they must live within x miles of the home).

Now something that I am a little more privy to then most is that the types of people who are getting over here as careers are to say the least concerning. This ranges on the low end of people who don't know any English, Illegals, visa over stays and all the way up to actual wanted terrorists.
 
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