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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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Starmer Says He 'Deeply Regrets' Using 'Island of Strangers' Phrase
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By Nina Lloyd
2025-06-27 10:36:08GMT
Sir Keir Starmer has said he "deeply regrets" claiming the UK risked becoming an "island of strangers" in an immigration speech that drew comparisons to the language of Enoch Powell.

The Prime Minister said he had not been in the "best state" to give the press conference, in which he insisted on the need for tighter border controls, as he reeled from an alleged arson attack on his family home.

He said he had considered pulling out of the speech after the fire at the property in Kentish Town left him and his wife Lady Victoria Starmer "really shaken up."

The Prime Minister ended up going through with the conference as planned on May 12, hours after the blaze.

In it, he warned Britain risked becoming "an island of strangers" without tougher immigration controls - rhetoric that sparked an immediate backlash and was denounced by critics, including within Labour ranks, as divisive.

At the time, Downing Street doubled down on the remarks and said Sir Keir "completely rejects" suggestions he had echoed Powell's infamous "rivers of blood" speech that was blamed for inflaming racial tensions in the 1960s.

But in an interview for the Observer the Prime Minister struck a more conciliatory tone, saying the language "wasn't right".

"I wouldn't have used those words if I had known they were, or even would be interpreted as an echo of Powell," he said.

"I had no idea - and my speechwriters didn't know either. But that particular phrase - no - it wasn't right. I'll give you the honest truth: I deeply regret using it."

He added: "It's fair to say I wasn't in the best state to make a big speech... I was really, really worried. I almost said: 'I won't do the bloody press conference.'

"Vic was really shaken up as, in truth, was I. It was just a case of reading the words out and getting through it somehow... so I could get back to them."

Critics drew parallels between the phrase and a passage from Powell's 1968 speech in which he claimed white Britons were at risk of becoming "strangers in their own country".

The Prime Minister stressed he was not seeking to use the alleged arson attack as an excuse and does not blame his advisers, saying he should have read through the speech properly and "held it up to the light a bit more".

He also backed down on language in his foreword to the policy document linked to the speech, which said record high numbers of migrants entering the UK under the last government had done "incalculable damage".

Sir Keir insisted the issue needed addressing because the party "became too distant from working-class people on things like immigration", but said "this wasn't the way to do it in this current environment".
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Bro dude weed mentality messes up so many lives. Weed has been proven to stunt brain development and we all know how it dulls you to the world
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That study was taken on developing brains, not developed ones. It causes less harm than alcohol or fast food.
Kofi Drinka said:
There's nothing wrong with responsible drinking. The same isn't true for weed.
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They're both the same; a substance that alters your mind. One causes mental issues, the other physical. I'll let you guess which one is which.
Kier Starmer said:
Weed does so much damage. I grew up around a few smack users who stupidly switched to weed and are dependent on it, and their brains are scrambled.
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Your problem here is calling stoners smack heads when that's like comparing a kitten with a pitbull raised by a chav.

The discussion on weed is very strange. The real problem that should be addressed with drugs is cocaine; the cheap price, ready availability and rampant usage. That's a ticking time bomb, but I digress.

There's three things in play with weed;
1) A good chunk of people who take it, can't handle it, in the same way fat people can't handle fast food, piss heads can't put down a pint.
2) It has proven health benefits and the stigma that comes with being a "dude, weed, lmao" pushes people away from an alternative medicine to popping pills. This isn't a coincidence, as it would bring a lot of people away from taking extremely damaging 'anti-depression' and 'mental health' tablets. I could do a sperg on the effects of these, but I won't.
3) Weed usage is rampant and other than turning lazy slobs into lazy slobs with an excuse, it does little damage to society as those who consume it and can't handle it are wasters anyway, on weed or not. The way it does damage society is through improper control. Weed should be legalised in the way Spain do it - Legal to smoke at home, massive fines for smoking in public, and it should be taxed, lightly. heavy taxation would help the black market to flourish.
 
Frostnipped Todger said:
Only here for one full day (today), so what should i order from Greggs? I think thats the most important question.
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A vegan sausage roll you fucking retard, did you not read the OP?
You don't have to like it, so long as come away with an opinion about Piers Morgan.
 
Smoking weed and pissing in public town centres needs to be stopped. Having a weekend of a band playing in the park and a few pints and a joint once or twice a year isn’t going to kill the vast majority. There’s a time and a place for having fun and kicking back, and we used to be able to work hard and be sensible in the week and then a few in the pub at the weekend. Just like there’s nothing wrong with having a pint a couple of weekends a month and a lot wrong with drinking daily.
I don’t drink at all these days, but I spent many a happy evening as a a younger woman having a few drinks and dancing like an idiot to bands I liked. There’s a massive difference between hanging around town on a weekday reeking of weed, versus two pints of cider in the sun at leeds or wherever and watching someone you like play on a weekend . None of us were ‘cum sluts’ ffs we just went out to listen to groups with our friend group and have a dance. It was fun, none of us were degenerates, furries, porn addicts or trannies.
Moderation in all things. The last lot who insisted on total Puritanism weren’t much fun. We did eventually get a restoration out of it so hope springs eternal i guess.
Our main problem is rulers who hate us, perusing policies that aim to genocide us, and mass importing the people who will do it.
 
Otterly said:
None of us were ‘cum sluts’ ffs we just went out to listen to groups with our friend group and have a dance.
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This is why I just won't take anyone seriously who speaks like this. It comes across like they are on a sliding scale from '15 year old boy who is mad popular girls don't like him' to '35 year old man who repulses women' so they become some tradcath larper instead.

I'm suspicious of a lot of these people who claim Islam is a cancer and must be stopped by all means, to only say in the next sentence we must lock down all our women to protect their virtue. If you really feel that way then you are no better.
 
Some good news to wake up to - the normally Welsh Labour worshipping Wales Online now admits that it's curtains for Labour this side of Offa's Dyke, and that it's between Plaid and Reform UK at the next Welsh Election:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/l5d78

They're finally rounding on Drippy Drakeford, Loony Morgan and Starmer.

Strange timing, when everybody from The Guardian to The Daily Mail is vilifying Labour.

In England, it will be Lib Dems (possibly Greens) v Reform UK with the Uniparty gone.
 
Weeds a nigger drug and you're a retarded faggot if you use it. No one worth knowing smokes it, and everyone knows this, which is why everyone flids out and cries and shits themselves whenever its suggested that maybe they stop drugging themselves. You are however not going to convince a drug addict of this fact, and they aren't going to stop. Same with a pisshead, or glue sniffer, or anyone else like that. Festivals are fine as long as you're not a retard who can't relax a little bit without going insane. There, I the unbiased authority have spoke and the debate need not carry on further.

Also the very real idea of a lib dem vs reform election legitimately makes me belly laugh.
 
Horse shoe theory is always funny to read. If someone opposes a country full of problems they're just like the Muslims because the Muslims oppose some of those same problems?

You can't claim the problem isn't weed, it's that people can't handle weed. That makes it a problem and many of us are talking first hand experiences with these people and of problems in our area because of it. "Just move some where else" is not a solution to a country full of brain dead weed addicts (spare the it's not addictive line) pissing every where.

I'm going to sum it up as Lad culture because it short hands the conversation. Getting fucked up on substances or booze as a regular thing isn't healthy. It's not the same as having a cold pint and a natter with the locals at the pub. No one believes "I just want to get drunk and dance with my friends!", not even your Dad did. We've all been there and we've seen what those girls do once they think they're not been watched. The state of relationships is completely fucked and it has got to change if we want to have a proper society. The 1950s larp does say we need to protect our women and we do need to protect them. Teenagers do stupid stuff and parents need to start raising their kids properly. Modern Britain looks like a brothel, it acts like a brothel, it stinks and all the women you see are dressed as skimpy as possible and flashing camel toe. That's so unhealthy to live in and hedonism has to end and people have to be honest about their behaviour and how destructive it is. When people compare us to the Weimar republic we have a problem and the solution isn't to keep carrying on as if everything is fine. I feel sorry for you if you think seeing women dressed like prostitutes dancing every where so they can upload videos to tiktok is something normal or healthy. It's a meat market for weirdos online to pull up and masturbate to. Our culture is rotten internally and externally and unless it's fixed there's no point deporting all the foreigners. We'll simply decline further into hedonism and act no better than the people we just kicked out. We have had better socities, we can do better and it's up to each and everyone of us to do better. Not make excuses for why 'it's just a bit of fun' means you act like a nigger.

Why do you need weed to enjoy the view from a mountain? What is so wrong with your brain that you can't just enjoy the view with a fully functional brain? The problem isn't the view, it's the person viewing it.

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Also the very real idea of a lib dem vs reform election legitimately makes me belly laugh.
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What do lib dems even stand for? They've always been that party college kids vote for once then never again around here.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
Weeds a nigger drug and you're a retarded faggot if you use it. No one worth knowing smokes it, and everyone knows this, which is why everyone flids out and cries and shits themselves whenever its suggested that maybe they stop drugging themselves. You are however not going to convince a drug addict of this fact, and they aren't going to stop. Same with a pisshead, or glue sniffer, or anyone else like that. Festivals are fine as long as you're not a retard who can't relax a little bit without going insane. There, I the unbiased authority have spoke and the debate need not carry on further.

Also the very real idea of a lib dem vs reform election legitimately makes me belly laugh.
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Well, if it makes you laugh, then so be it.

There's no point in voting for anybody but these two, depending upon your stance regarding Brexit - if you oppose it then it's Lib Dems or Greens, and if you support it then it's Reform UK.

The only concession to this is if you care more about Welsh or Scottish independence than anything else.

Nobody at this point can give a valid reason for voting for the Uniparty.

As for Weed, I know of somebody who takes it with her soup or green tea - she is 80, a shut-in, her knees have turned to shit and she has been in constant agony. The Weed has helped ease the pain, therefore I more than understand her taking it as the local hospital is worse than fucking useless and her Son doesn't give a damn (he's got a myriad of mental health issues, and is probably better out of the way) and I won't judge her taking something which at least partly gives her a reason to go on.

@Kofi Drinka The Lib Dems stand for re-joining the EU and that's pretty much it - I think they want to be 'Labour Lite' i.e. not as heavy handed and controlling and I believe they want to get the cost of living down but they also want to keep the Green Levy taxes as well...
 
Made In Wales said:
Some good news to wake up to - the normally Welsh Labour worshipping Wales Online now admits that it's curtains for Labour this side of Offa's Dyke, and that it's between Plaid and Reform UK at the next Welsh Election:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/l5d78

They're finally rounding on Drippy Drakeford, Loony Morgan and Starmer.

Strange timing, when everybody from The Guardian to The Daily Mail is vilifying Labour.

In England, it will be Lib Dems (possibly Greens) v Reform UK with the Uniparty gone.
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Plaid Cymru is such a joke of a party, I feel like most people in Wales who vote for them don't understand that they'll just be an accessory to the EU and not really independant.
 
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