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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.

 

[redlenses2112]

Crosspost:

Post in thread 'Pride Month'

Aug 1, 2025

As Britain decays, so decays the Anglican Church:

Bishop Cherry Vann has been elected as archbishop of the Church in Wales, becoming the first woman and LGBTQ cleric appointed to lead any of Britain’s Anglican churches.

Officially sanctioned blasphemy is not new in the Anglican Church:

While the broader, international Anglican Communion has had openly gay bishops before, most notably Gene Robinson in the United States, Vann will be the first lesbian to serve as archbishop globally.

With Cherry Vann, faggotry is more than a private perversion, or we...

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[Morethanabitfoolish]

By-election for a Warrington borough council seat went to Reform. Traditionally a labour stronghold, but if a general were held tomorrow, all three Warrington constituencies would likely be sending a Reform MP to Parliament.

All the signs are looking good, but no room for complacency.

While correct that there is no room for complacency and this is only a by-election it's one more blood trail in the water. As noted it is another Labour stronghold and things do not look good. Given things do not look like they are going to get better the electorate's usual short memory may not be the factor it normally is.

Thast said let's go to news. First a lighter one, the Vampire Counts efforts to secure a Total Warhammer patch have reached new highs.

https://archive.ph/IVTH3

Games Workshop, the fantasy war miniatures firm, is facing a major new real world challenge - a bat.

While its successful Warhammer series features clawed monsters and armoured soldiers, its plans are being held up by a 4cm (1.6in) pipistrelle bat.

The flying animal has been found on the site of a planned car park near its Nottingham headquarters.

The company said it was "carefully looking after" the guest but did not reveal how long it was expected to stay.

The pipistrelle is the UK's smallest and most common bat, weighing about 5g (0.17oz) but capable of eating about 3,000 insects a night.

It is protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

Games Workshop's annual report revealed profits in the year to 1 June rose 29% to £263m.

It also admitted to two ongoing issues, firstly the imposition of tariffs on imports to the US and "the cute looking pipistrelle bat that is delaying our work on our new temporary car park".

"We are carefully looking after the bat and we hope the uncertainty around tariffs is resolved soon," it said.


The company said it had spent £2.1m on land at Willow Road to be used as a short-term car park but with an option to develop it for production later.

Games Workshop has been approached for comment on the extent of the delay and any cost implications.

Labour continue to bribe the civil servants -

https://archive.ph/DGEmH

Labour has relaxed rules allowing civil servants to receive up to £100,000 in “golden goodbye” severance payments, even if they leave by choice.
Previously, government departments had to seek Treasury approval to compensate departing junior and mid-level employees for unused employee benefits or shortened notice periods.
However, changes announced this week mean that departments can hand out payments worth thousands of pounds without having to consult the Treasury.
It comes as Labour battles to trim the size of what Sir Keir Starmer described in an article for The Telegraph as an “over-cautious, flabby state”.
In April, it emerged that up to 1,200 employees from the Cabinet Office, headed by Pat McFadden, were facing redundancy.
Statutory redundancy payments and payment for unused leave are separate from special severance payments, which in some cases can be worth tens of thousands of pounds.
Special severance payments are paid to employees if they resign, are dismissed or reach an agreed termination of their contracts. They are not a legal right, and are instead treated as a special payment.
They are commonly awarded to ministers when there is a change in government. Jeremy Hunt, the former Chancellor, was paid £16,876 last year, according to Treasury accounts.
Employees may receive a special severance payment if, for example, they have unused employee benefits that continue beyond their last working day. Payments may also be awarded as compensation in lieu of notice.
Last year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) paid out £370,000 in special severance payments to 21 civil servants, with a median value of £10,000. The highest individual payment awarded was £96,000, according to DWP accounts.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) similarly spent £85,535 on nine severance payments last year, the highest of which was worth £25,000.
John O’Connell, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign group, said it was “frustrating” to see the large cost to the taxpayer “just to get rid of staff”.
He said: “Taxpayers will be furious to find out that there is going to be even less control on the size of these payouts now that the Treasury’s role in approving exit payments is being reduced.
“Ministers need to be reversing this decision, as well as bringing in a long overdue cap of £95,000 on all golden goodbyes.”
The guidance issued to departments grants accounting officers the power to approve severance payments worth up to £100,000 without Treasury approval.
However, documents passed to departments grant accountants the power to approve payments exceeding the £100,000 threshold for early severance cases linked to upcoming redundancy programmes.
The changes do not affect payments to senior civil servants, special advisers and “anyone earning over the senior level pay threshold”.
Departments have also been warned against payments that are “not affordable”, and against making payments that “add unfunded pressure to departmental spending budgets”.
Accountants have been similarly urged not to make any payment that would “set a precedent or have implications for wider government policy or other settlements” by paying out sums that “differ markedly” from previous settlements.
The Treasury was approached for comment.

- while trying to create a university to civil service pipeline at the same time as pretending they final know what the definition of working class is

https://archive.ph/M8nny

The government will restrict civil service internships to students from poorer families as part of a drive from ministers to make Whitehall more working class.
The main internship scheme designed to attract university students to the civil service will now only be available for students from "lower socio-economic backgrounds", judged by what jobs their parents did when they were 14.
Those who are successful on the internship will then be prioritised for entry to the Fast Stream, the main graduate programme for entry to the civil service.
The change has been driven by Pat McFadden, who as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is responsible for civil service reform.
He told the BBC: "We need to get more working class young people into the Civil Service so it harnesses the broadest range of talent and truly reflects the country.
"Government makes better decisions when it represents and understands the people we serve."
Currently around a quarter of higher education students are from a lower socio-economic background, but the group represented only 12% of successful applicants to the Fast Stream in 2024.
Some Labour ministers have come to believe in their first year in office that parts of the civil service are too privileged, with people who have come from similar backgrounds.
A summer internship programme already exists. The programme is for undergraduates in their final two years of university, lasts six to eight weeks and is paid.
Under the changes, which will take effect for the summer of 2026, the intake will be restricted only to students from poorer backgrounds.
The programme will give them experience including planning events, writing briefings for ministers, shadowing senior civil servants and carrying out research for policy development.
Those deemed to have performed well will then be fast-tracked to the final stages of the Fast Stream selection process if they decide to apply to work in the civil service after graduation.
The government is also trying to establish more career paths into the senior ranks of the civil service outside of London, announcing earlier this year that by 2030 half of the placements on the Fast Stream will be located outside of the capital.
The Labour government has been strikingly critical of some of the practices of the civil service since coming to office in July last year. In December, Sir Keir Starmer said that "too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline," incurring criticism from civil service unions.
The prime minister has also said he wants to "rewire" the way the state works.
Conservative shadow cabinet office minister Mike Wood said the UK's public services "deserve talent chosen on ability".
In a statement Wood said: "We believe in opportunity based on what you can do, not where you come from.
"We all want to see greater opportunity for working-class young people. But this scheme sends the message that unless you fit a particular social profile, you're no longer welcome.
"No young person should be told they're not welcome based solely on leftist social engineering."

I know on paper some people will claim that the above is a good thing but what it mostly means is now the public is going to be responsible for employing every useless degree haver in a role that gives them a say in how the tax payer's money is waster, most of whom will be utterly indoctrinated in the worst politics possible.

Really and truly that one should be ringing alarm bells.

 

[ZeCommissar]

t's bullshit though. Most of us have a grandparent who were poor and still had multiple kids and raised them well. They made do with what they had and made it work.

How many pakis are shitting out kids non-stop and managing to make it work? How many niggers?

Trying to do what your grandparents did, which is pop out a shit ton of kids and "make it work" won't make modern society better, nor will it work unless you live in a very close knit community which is something most people in the US and UK don't have.

First things first a family that does that will probably use welfare to help with the burden of costs, which of course puts more strain on society. You may say "well I don't care, as long as its white people" failing to realize that there are plenty of useless white wiggers who shit out kids just like pakis who contribute nothing to society. Regardless if it's a paki, or a white person throwing shit at you, its still shit.

Also explain to me exactly how pakis and niggers are "making it work" they have shithole communities and shit families where the "father" doesn't even talk to his kids. Is that what you want? The whole world to become niggers? Because you extend that branch to white people, especially poor British white people and that's what you get, and that's what you're already getting. When this welfare bubble finally pops in the future the people "making it work" are going to suffer the hardest.

Here's exactly whats going to happen if you remove BC and try to force people to have more kids, regardless of whether or not you increase the welfare for them. Its one of two things.

1.: People just stop having sex, or condom stonks are going to surge through the roof making people have sex without kids anyway. That's actually not the worst case, since it would lead to a reduction in STD rates, but it would mean people aren't having kids so the plan fails. Worst case is this just stops those who are educated from having even one kid at all, while the poor and pakis who never cared in the first place keep pumping them out, making it worse. Now you have the current situation where educated white people have even less kids more then ever, while the people causing the problem have free reign, except you just made it a lot worse.

2. You actually get what you "want" and people don't stop having sex (lol) and a shit ton more kids are born. So now what? Going to expand the welfare system to everyone? Going to have millions of kids born into a world with no community or stable extended families? The things that allowed your grandparents to take care of their 8 kids without government welfare? People can't even talk to each other anymore about dating without sperging out in rage, and you expect these motherfuckers to raise a family without shit falling apart?

You MUST address the core issues of society. Doing quick stopgap solutions like "deport em all, and remove those damn pills" is nearly communist levels of nation state planning where you just ignore the problem, and force the solution. Even if you deport every single paki from the UK, it will only provide temporary relief, and you WILL be back at square one before you know it. Don't get me wrong, I don't like BC either, but its one of those "damned if you do" situations.

One thing I will say however is I think its time to address the whole "everyone has the right to have a kid" angle. I don't trust the government in saying who can, and can't have children, but just letting people run around making single parents just isn't sustainable. Honestly just wave some money infront of the niggers and poor to snip their balls and hope Super Gonorrhea takes them out.

 

[Made In Wales]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1FazzXCc5HU

https://archive.ph/wip/8k6mD

Cooper needs to be sacked, looks like Noddy (Ed Balls) is going to run cover for his useless wife.

 

[Crunkle]

Now this is a fantastic advertisement.

 

[Mr Bunny]

Crosspost:

Post in thread 'Pride Month'

Aug 1, 2025

As Britain decays, so decays the Anglican Church:

Bishop Cherry Vann has been elected as archbishop of the Church in Wales, becoming the first woman and LGBTQ cleric appointed to lead any of Britain’s Anglican churches.

Officially sanctioned blasphemy is not new in the Anglican Church:

While the broader, international Anglican Communion has had openly gay bishops before, most notably Gene Robinson in the United States, Vann will be the first lesbian to serve as archbishop globally.

With Cherry Vann, faggotry is more than a private perversion, or we...

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A lesbian 'woman'.
Me and a bongfren got a bet. I'm betting on gay man, he's betting on lesbian.

I'm calling hacks, that looks like a tranny! Lesbian my ass!

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I know on paper some people will claim that the above is a good thing but what it mostly means is now the public is going to be responsible for employing every useless degree haver in a role that gives them a say in how the tax payer's money is waster, most of whom will be utterly indoctrinated in the worst politics possible.

No one is going to claim it's a good thing. It's an excuse to get more foreigners in power. We all know they won't be taking poor white boys, except to the toilets.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Now this is a fantastic advertisement.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=l0bmJlrhRg4

Now that's class.

 

[Hoi Polloi]

I've never particularly felt the need to participate in this thread, but the general consensus I'm seeing on the site that we (as citizens) are somehow responsible for the absolutely fucked state of the country is compelling me to vent somewhat.

We operate on a generally two-party system, where one party (Conservatives) spent years howling that mass migration is a left-wing policy, while opening the doors as wide as they possibly could and doing essentially the opposite of what they preached in expanding the system for years. Meanwhile the liberals (Labour) reactively insisted that immigration is good actually because the Tories say its bad - in spite of their actual policy of ushering as many Abduls as they could into the country - and thus giving zero possibility of a counter vote to immigration.

It's bogglingly telling that Labour, the party that spent years insisting that mass migration is "good actually", is the first government in over a decade to actually outright say maybe we shouldn't be importing brown people and at least make some steps to rectify it.

Yank farmers seem to be telling us either that we should've voted better (every party is pro-immigration except for whatever Nige's current grift party is) or decide to turn the UK into Mogadishu and start murdering our politicians.

It's fucked, lads. I know that they're all burger gunlarping retards but it does really put into perspective the hopeless future laying in front of us.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

First a lighter one, the Vampire Counts efforts to secure a Total Warhammer patch have reached new highs.

A little 4cm 5gram thing? That's gw's wheelhouse, they'll be selling them off at £200 each in no time.

 

[Crunkle]

(Conservatives) spent years howling that mass migration is a left-wing policy, while opening the doors as wide as they possibly could

I think this is the point. Every single mainstream politician in this country mistakenly believes that the only way to do a job well is to make big green GDP number go up. More people = higher number.

It's our fault because despite seeing them do this for the past 14 years, we kept re-electing them. Each time they were elected, more parts of our country has changed irreparably. We did this to ourselves by electing these people and every single election cycle, we were fooled again into trusting the latest charlatan. We are all to blame because we were all too meek and trusting.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

So also in other news, the Education department is broke like actually broke. AQA raised its fees for exams, which has "schools over a barrel". Now, a certain Minister did not spend the intended money from VAT on private schools, but it was a slush fund for immigration costs. On top of that, Local authorities across the country have been driven to bankruptcy due to having to pay for private schools and the full bill, not a portion of it. To my county, it costs them 30 million+. It cost the council its surplus and put them into a major deficit. 88% of their costs were going into social care.

One of my friends, a teacher, said they now have 14 form groups to mitigate increasing class sizes, but they cannot afford more teachers and need about 30. Every school across the country does not have the money to afford this, and guess why AQA raised their costs? Rachel Reeves' tax increases.

As for these fuckers who say "growth," for me it's a red flag. There is no such thing as forever growth; it's impossible. EVERYTHING in the universe has a limit.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

It's our fault because despite seeing them do this for the past 14 years, we kept re-electing them. Each time they were elected, more parts of our country has changed irreparably. We did this to ourselves by electing these people and every single election cycle, we were fooled again into trusting the latest charlatan. We are all to blame because we were all too meek and trusting.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

 

[BongoMongo]

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

As a loyal Kang voter, I challenge you to a duel. Name your weapon.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Corbyn put out a statement.

So yeah everyone in that alliance is a Pro-Gaza Muslim. I'm curious to see if he's going to be the sole white dude in a position of leadership. Well, maybe he'll be accompanied by some overweight white woman (the image fits in my head) but the deck's already stacked against it in getting any Anti-immigrant, pro-Labour (Big Gaz - for gibs on principle) voters going their way.

Yank farmers seem to be telling us either that we should've voted better (every party is pro-immigration except for whatever Nige's current grift party is) or decide to turn the UK into Mogadishu and start murdering our politicians.

On the contrary, the American's complete ignorance to our domestic situation makes me hopeful. Like, that random Waterlooville protest got a 1000 people turning out, which is already a far larger show of support for a particular policy than the American-right can muster, even on a good day. Hell, only 2 thousand people went to the capitol on January 6th 2020 and the people there believed the election was stolen. Their assessment of the British people is entirely off-base and outright wrong and far too many people are willing to accept it. The general level of ignorance they have towards our domestic situation means that their intentionally dour, "no-way-out" view of our country is based out of pure dislike for us and shouldn't be accepted, and it especially shouldn't replace what you can see with your own eyes and ears.

Remember this: Lowering legal immigration isn't even in their political discourse. It's not anywhere prominent within their leadership, and legal immigration in the millions is perfectly fine with their politicians. Their democracy is more easy to subvert than ours by a country mile (Lobbying, party leadership doesn't need to be held by an elected representative) and their partisan judiciary has more power than the president. There is more hope in the long-term for our country than the Americans are willing to admit.

The mere fact a third party is (and has demonstrated itself capable of such) toppling our version of the uniparty (Labour/Tory paradigm) should give you hope regardless of the fact Farage is leading it. Remember: whilst he is ultimately a grifter, the fact he's parroting remigration platitudes (look earlier in the thread) and mass deportation of illegals, when he was of the opposite stance less than a year ago, means he can see what's growing in popularity amongst the electorate and Reform's base, and if he sees it, then that means your fellow countrymen are probably more likeminded with you than you think, and in massive numbers too.

The main torture we all have to go through at the moment though is we have to wait, but at least the rhetoric on immigration ramps up every two months.

 

[Crunkle]

Corbyn put out a statement.

How can he look at his name at the bottom of that letter and not feel out of place in that list of names?

Not even the smallest, remotest sensation that he might be in with the wrong crowd?

I suppose you can't expect much from a man who willingly fucked Diane Abbott.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I suppose you can't expect much from a man who willingly fucked Diane Abbott.

Maybe Zara Sultana is noshing him off, and that's why he's doing it? I kid, the reason he's doing it is because like all devout commies; he has brain worms that drive him to do insane evil shit.

 

[BongoMongo]

Cheers for the mental image of Abbott fucking. I just sicked up the Fuse bar (remember those?!) a friend bought me back from Foreignistan. Ta very much.

 

[Clem Fandango]

As for these fuckers who say "growth," for me it's a red flag. There is no such thing as forever growth; it's impossible. EVERYTHING in the universe has a limit.

I sometimes try that tack with lefty types who bring up "sustainability". I'll ask them what is the sustainable population of the UK. 100m? 200m? 300m? Go on, put a number on it.

In social situations they usually make their excuses and leave but that's fine because it means I've won the argument.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Corbyn put out a statement.

There is a HUGE appetite for change.
That's why they will vote for me, the guy that is not a change. Idk just a bit retarded to say you are the face of change when you have been an mp for 3 decades mate. They want change that's why they will vote for the same labour leader from a few years ago?

Also fucking hell those names. Yea let me vote for sultana, hear she's going to lower taxes on raisins too. Then there's fucking Hussein which honestly after Saddam surely you'd just get that changed? Isn't that like going to Germany and finding people still use Hitler as their last name? The fourth guy I read his first name as 'a nob' and he probably is. We've then got fucking Mohamed too, thought he was meant to be off in muslim heaven with his 72 little girl virgins or something but no he's running for mp instead. And to round it off there's Adam socket which I'm fairly sure is what my lamps use for the bubs, maybe it's just a middle aged version to the oap aged Alan key.