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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

 

[Zoot]

the more I get involved in propagating nationalist ideas the less doompilled I feel.

Politicians will keep lying and cheating and ignoring people. The increase in browns will increase the anger.

The far right needs to keep working on pushing its ideas out on the grassroots level. from irl to online. It might take twenty years, it might take longer, but imo a return to a properly nationalistic attitude is coming back and once that happenst he apparatus of the state returns to us.

We don't need to rely on the current crop, once the public become hardloine on brown people, the we will just take it all over.

Just adding to what I was saying.

I do'nt think the UK can hold together as it is racially at the moment. The divisions are grown deeper. Even if we didn't get full migration, I could see some kind of segregation happening in the next 20 years. Maybe even exchanges of populations between towns to make some towns white town and other brown ones.

Where else in the world has this kind of racial and religious difference, in a tiny country, no ended up in serious strife?

 

[FedPostalService]

* The Unions hate Starmer

* The Woke Left hate Starmer (they're also furious at him proscribing Palestine Action and banning them from all UK Airports - arguably, this is one of very few sensible things Starmer's done whilst in office).

So he’s based?

 

[>IMPLYING]

Guys, I want to believe. I probably want a Reform govt more than most in this thread - I'm a Reform hipster: I liked them before they were cool. By which I mean I travelled quite a way to visit their rally in Derby like 4 years ago (celebrity guest speaker, Anne Widdecombe!). For all their flaws, it was truly refreshing at the time to have people giving speeches with lines like "I am white, and I'm not ashamed", and openly disparaging the recent Black lives Matter movement.

I want it to happen, ASAP. I just don't think it will.

Anyway, enough talk. Let's put some stakes on it. If there's a GE before 2029, I'll change my pfp to some equivalent of the Burger Suit thing in the US politics thread.

Anyone who's confident the other way should make a similar bet!

can you give me one example in british history where politicians have ever served the people?

Maybe?

Almost blind, when he received the last letter from Victoria of which he was aware on 5 April, he held it momentarily, then had it read to him by Lord Barrington, a Privy Councillor. One card, signed "A Workman", delighted its recipient: "Don't die yet, we can't do without you."

 

[Made In Wales]

can you give me one example in british history where politicians have ever served the people?

Not 100% of the time, no, I cannot.

However... in order to be successful in a democratic government they have to work for their constituents at least some of the time if they want to stay in office.

Plus, they have to keep those who put them where they are happy too (in Labour's case, this includes the various Unions). Basically, if the Unions backed a Labour leader only for that leader to come down heavily on them (i.e. not serve them as agreed) then the Unions have that power to make that leader's time at the top very short indeed.

It’s always a dangerous balancing act for them and, they always run the danger of pleasing no one when they try to please everyone.

It’s therefore up to the voters to see past pompous chest-thumping and flag waving to see who are the true politicians who truly care about their constituents and who will at least try and make their lives that little bit better - even if they are only doing it to steal a little bit of glory on the way, it's an overall good and positive thing to be seen as kind, caring and compassionate.

I will say that Rupert Lowe and possibly Nigel Farage have the best rapport with those they have been elected to serve, though even some Labour MP's outside of the London bubble do care about their electorate and would rather do them right then try and suck up to those in higher rank.

Historically, I would say that Lord Anthony Wedgwood-Benn was a real man of the people and didn't care who in Labour he pissed off by giving a damn about the electorate - had he stood against 'Maggie' and not the Welsh duo of Foot and 'We're Alright!' Kinnock, history could well have been a lot different. Alas, now, we'll never know.

So he’s based?

Actually, that in itself spawns a bigger question:

Just what is a Sir Keir Starmer and what does it stand for?

(Okay, technically two questions...)

 

[Chunky Salsa]

So he’s based?

A classic.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The far right needs to keep working on pushing its ideas out on the grassroots level. from irl to online. It might take twenty years, it might take longer, but imo a return to a properly nationalistic attitude is coming back and once that happenst he apparatus of the state returns to us.

I don't believe far right ideas are unpopular or uncommon. I think most white people share those ideas and would openly express them if they didn't fear a knock at the door. The police state keeps the conversations over garden fences but there's a lot of garden fences where it happens.

Actually, that in itself spawns a bigger question:

Just what is a Sir Keir Starmer and what does it stand for?

(Okay, technically two questions...)

A wanker

He stands when he wants to put his willy in a little boy's mouth.

Any disagreements?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

But no for real, he's legit a sociopath, or a psychopath or however you want to say 'shark in a people suit'. There's genuinely nothing in that man, the interview he did where he casually admitted that he's never really felt fear, that he has no hobbies, doesn't have a favourite anything, and his interaction with his children is a transactional information seeking thing showed that. He's a husk.

 

[teriyakiburns]

He's a husk.

Even legit low-functioning autists have more social intelligence and empathy than this man. But his father was a toolmaker, so who am I to criticise him?

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

I have been saying for a year, I wholeheartedly think Starmer beats Victoria. He said in the same interview that "he does not dream." The fuck! The guy also hates women and uses them as props, but is afraid of men because they'd square up. I read that interview and was horrified because who the fuck thinks that is a good piece to publish.

I think his father was Jopedo, and this is just a Pinnichio-style LARP.

 

[Amin Yasister]

a handful of people I spoke to this morning weren't even aware of Israel and Iran bombing each other - true story

Seeing as the two have been in conflict since 1979 and are always having spats, perhaps they just tune it out because they couldn't give a fuck?

 

[Eddie Riggs]

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[>IMPLYING]

Seeing as the two have been in conflict since 1979 and are always having spats, perhaps they just tune it out because they couldn't give a fuck?

That'd rely on said people being aware of events preceding that far back, retaining the names of other countries, knowing the vague history of other places beside their own, watching news on telly or learning of it via osmosis or something, etcetera. If they tuned it out then it's probably less a result of "Israel and Iran? Who cares" and more "Somewhere, someplace that doesn't concern me is fighting another place somewhere, someplace that doesn't concern me? Who cares". Israel could be some country in the middle of Africa and Iran South America for all it matters.

However: "Giving my hours away to some Paki cunt" is a remark at least one of them has said in recent times, so it doesn't really matter what they do or do not know about other places, heart's in the right place politically lmao

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

https://order-order.com/2025/06/25/rayners-renaissance-assassin-skills-push-chancellor-to-brink-of-tears/

Angela almost made Reeves cry.

I think Ange is playing a game here, fair play, you can't take the North out of the slag. If Starmer thinks there will be no backlash in partnering with the Tories, then he is either being played for a fool or exceptionally retarded. You may as well ask Tony Martin's ghost to shoot you in the face in the Commons. It is suicide, your party at the very second will be sharpening the knives.

All they need to do is shit can the migrant hotels and ask benefits for the illegals because it will save over 13 billion compared to the alloted 5 billion and that 5 billion is not even tested.

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Seethe faggot!

 

[Clem Fandango]

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Maybe?

Fucking yes, man. Bookmarking this post for later. And again, for the avoidance of doubt, I want to be wrong. So I hope I am wearing this avi at some point.

 

[FedPostalService]

https://order-order.com/2025/06/25/rayners-renaissance-assassin-skills-push-chancellor-to-brink-of-tears/

Angela almost made Reeves cry.

I think Ange is playing a game here, fair play, you can't take the North out of the slag.

She’s from fucking Cheadle. She’s not some sort of hard case, she’s a slag who got knocked up at school, and has been been on a LARP ever since.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

But no for real, he's legit a sociopath, or a psychopath or however you want to say 'shark in a people suit'. There's genuinely nothing in that man, the interview he did where he casually admitted that he's never really felt fear, that he has no hobbies, doesn't have a favourite anything, and his interaction with his children is a transactional information seeking thing showed that. He's a husk.

He's a middle manager. That's what the country makes now. Beady eyed middle managers. They run everything and no one wants to shove them in a bin and tell them to fuck off.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

He's a middle manager. That's what the country makes now. Beady eyed middle managers. They run everything and no one wants to shove them in a bin and tell them to fuck off.

Yeah, it's grim hearing my friends talk about their job. I was lucky, I have a job in the sciences, I do research, I only really deal with engineers or scientists and the odd HR nightmare. Hearing about the passive aggressive dead eyed retardation that goes on every day at seemingly every other job is wild to me..

 

[Snekposter]

Just what is a Sir Keir Starmer

Some sort of featherless biped, I'd presume. Perhaps a freshly killed and plucked chicken, even. Behold, Labour's Man!

 

[Brahma]

Non governmental organisations should never get a penny of state funding. Their name states they are not part of government, which is blatant bullshit if they are financed largely by the state.

Including and especially media, even from advertising.

It had been setting my alarm bells even pre COVID but during and after the amount of media advertising being done by random government bodies, departments, ministries etc seems to have shot through the fucking roof.

I'm fully convinced it's part of the consent manufacturing machinery that there's so much government money buying ad space for inane "remember next month is national random appreciation day for X day" and "remember to turn off the cooker before going to bed" PSA style messages, it simply has to be colouring the editorial room, even if not explicitly buying it.

If it's that damn important, send out a text message or pay the mail to put a flyer in the door

Edit: words

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

It's amazing that Kiwi Farms has some genuinely VERY smart and sharp minds resident, and no I'm not just saying that for effect - there's some great people and great discussions here.

If everyone of the smart minds on here joined their local branch of Reform or local parties, they'd probably become the most competent MP in their district for generations, the only issue is that we would see our houses targeted, our lives destroyed, the people we know and love abandon us etc.

Whilst @Chunky Salsa is right in that there's nothing I can do directly, I'm part of the 'Far Right' - I mock the opposition, I comment upon their stupidity, I do more than my fair share of Whatiffery and try to look three moves ahead. What I don't do is threaten the lives of MP's (as some on the Far Left are doing and may well sadly do, because it's their way or the highway) or threaten to bring air travel to a halt, derail trains or whatever other crass plans they have in mind.

Granted that Labour are going to cling to power kicking and screaming for the next four years, here's what you can do to ensure you're safe while actively protesting the government:

1) Legally avoid paying as much tax as possible: Whether that involves putting as much as you can into an ISA or salary sacrificing into a SIPP. The funny thing is you could probably even do illegal tax evasion at this point as there's probably two HMRC folk in your county, but to ensure you're able to keep your vote it's not a wise decision to save a few grand.

2) Find a way of expressing your views with anonymity: You're doing that right now by KF requiring a VPN or Tor to fucking access this site. They hate you and will do anything they can to destroy you, but they will only ever go after soft targets.

3) Get educated on the legal frameworks of this country and use it against them, I sent a few strongly worded letters to my local MP about a potential asylum hotel, citing that it disregards the basic principle of safeguarding, something that would get a teacher or any government official into serious trouble if they just simply let something slip. Obviously it went straight into the junk mail folder but make them aware that there are people who oppose their way of thinking and have the knowledge to back it up. These receipts will come in handy in the future if the Overton window goes any further, as you will be able to destroy their lives by showing that they knew the risks of what they did.

4) Loosely related to 1, put a small amount of money into crypto, not as an investment but to pay for things that you don't want traced back to you. Donate to political parties, use it to buy VPNs, use it to buy seedboxes to ensure that you don't have any direct filesharing content being traced back to your IP. If they believe you're a bad person they will throw literally any charges at you to ensure you're fucked for thoughtcrime.

5) Most importantly, don't go to prison. If you go to prison you cannot vote. I know it's tempting to throw a brick through a window or go to a march or PL in public, but this is a government who not only actively hates you, but wants you to fucking die. They warned people last Summer that if they didn't plead guilty they'd be in cells with Muslims and violent offenders, then turned around, gave them zero leniency and still imprisoned them.