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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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Duane Dibbley said:
Tony B Liar, the biggest war criminal this side of the 1940's has been placed on the Gaza Peace Board, as the only non-american.

Blair is a Fabian and their view is broadly for a two state solution, which will piss both countries off. Should be fun to watch.
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He should have to coordinate this from Gaza. Boots on the ground, remember, Tony!
 
Istmyl Ilsender said:
I should also check out the farmers market in town.
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You should, but don't assume that every cheese seller there is selling a good product.

I've had some great cheese this way, and also some rotten stuff that I'm sure was just bulk bought crap from a wholesaler and repackaged.

There are some well regarded online cheesemongers.
 
Ben Habib has stated that he would consider joining a political party led by Rupert Lowe. He added that he does not want to be the leader of a political party himself. Is he fucking retarded? Does he even understand Lowe, at all?

Another defection to Reform in the works - MP Andrew Rosindell, Conservative for Romford.
MP Andrew Rosindell has reached an agreement to defect to Reform UK.The Romford Member of Parliament has come to an arrangement with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regarding his defection to the party. Negotiations between the two have been ongoing for several months. Mr. Rosindell was expected to switch parties a few months ago but had to postpone due to an issue concerning his constituency office. The MP is working to secure ownership of his constituency office, a process he nearly completed several months ago, but the agreement was ultimately not finalised. The property is currently owned by the Conservative Party and holds significant importance for him. Mr. Farage has agreed to make an exception, allowing Mr. Rosindell to finalise his defection after the May 7 deadline if he has not secured ownership of Margaret Thatcher House by that date. Sources close to both Mr. Rosindell and Mr. Farage suggest that the defection could now occur within a matter of weeks.
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Via the Financial Times - companies leaving the UK because of inheritance tax.
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ETA: TB OUTBREAK IN COVENTRY AT AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE. GMB Union wants the warehouse to close after multiple reported cases.
 
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Heinrich Maneuver said:
Ben Habib has stated that he would consider joining a political party led by Rupert Lowe. He added that he does not want to be the leader of a political party himself. Is he fucking retarded? Does he even understand Lowe, at all?
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I expect he's counting on a few factors to mellow Lowe's raging desire to burn the browns until there's nothing left but white ash. He's a christian, at least nominally. He "quit" Reform (meaning he was forced out) after fundamental disagreements with Farage over a number of issues, notably including Habib's desire for mass deportations, and he roundly criticised Farage and Reform for expelling Lowe. They have common cause in their treatment by Farage and a common desire for actual mass deportation, though he no doubt hopes there's a line drawn that has him on the other side, either by dint of wealth or by common religious heritage.

And I will be fair, if there's a line to be draw on "the good ones", christian and white-looking enough to not draw attention on the bus probably defines a great deal of it. He looks like he's from one of those minorities that is more closely related to Persians than jeets. They tend not to stand out.
 

Four million people will be denied the right to vote in local elections this year, unless Nigel Farage succeeds in a legal action to overturn the government’s decision. Twenty-seven councils, most of them Labour-controlled, have asked to delay elections that were due in May, because they will be abolished in 2028 or 2029. In other words, councillors who were elected for four years are asking to serve another two or three years without bothering the voters.

Steve Reed, the local government secretary, says opposition parties “want pointless elections” while “Labour wants to fix potholes”. He has written an article lecturing the voters on what they really want. “Ask the public if they think it’s a good idea to elect thousands of councillors to jobs that are set to be abolished,” he says.

But that is precisely the problem. He is not planning to ask the public. Instead, he asked the councillors whether they thought it was a good idea not to have elections. Two-thirds of Labour councils said they thought it was, and one-third of Conservative councils. That allowed the government to pretend that this was a cross-party betrayal of democracy: Tory councils had requested “postponement”, the government said, and it would not be so partisan as to refuse.

This ruse succeeded in making life awkward for Kemi Badenoch, who had to declare “I am not a dictator” when she said that she wasn’t keen on abolishing elections but it was up to local councillors if they wanted to take up the government’s offer.

But the attempt to embarrass the Tory leader only opened up a greater opportunity for Farage, who has been given the free hit of condemning the “democratic outrage” of the two traditional parties denying people’s rights.

It is as if Labour has forgotten one of the most basic laws of politics: that it looks bad to oppose a campaign to give people a say. When Margaret Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council, Ken Livingstone mobilised London voters behind a campaign for a say. Tony Blair could not resist demands for a referendum on joining the euro, or even on the European constitution – although neither was held in the end.

And David Cameron finally yielded to the decades-long campaign to give the people a say on our membership of the EU. For Farage, “let the people vote” has been the foundation stone of his career.

What is extraordinary is that Labour, for the sake of a few million pounds in savings and in an attempt to minimise the humiliation of election defeat, has fallen into Farage’s trap again.

Reed tries to deflect the onslaught by arguing that reorganising local government into a single tier is a good idea (just as Thatcher did with the abolition of the GLC), which may or may not be true.

He recounts an interesting but irrelevant fact: “Before their area was re-formed in 2020, Buckinghamshire County Council was spending over £30,000 a year picking up the phone just to tell callers they had contacted the wrong local authority.”

But reorganising local government does not require democracy to be cancelled. The argument that councils do not have the “capacity” to run elections and order a new logo for their website at the same time does not seem to apply to those councils that are going ahead with elections despite reorganisation.

Opinion polls suggest that most voters who have a view think that Labour is postponing elections because it thinks it will lose them. But Labour is going to be beaten badly anyway in those places – the majority – that will hold elections. It is defending seats won during the Tory chaos of 2022. In London, it is defending its second-best results in six decades. The results are going to be terrible, and no gaps in the data in places without elections are going to conceal the full awfulness of Labour’s unpopularity.

So why make matters worse by handing Farage the easiest propaganda gift possible, allowing him to portray himself as the defender of democratic rights?
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What a funny little mask off moment, showing the utter contempt that he has for the people he's disenfranchising. The article also doesn't point out that actually labours massive restructuring which is the supposed impetus for these cancelled elections, is based around a pathetically weak mandate. I just want them all to fucking die.
 
EddyRooney said:
Amelia has a message for us.......

Amelia has a message to share.mp4
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That's storming. It's not just a funny parody, it's good in its own right. I hope Amelia takes off as a new figure for the British right, like a purple pepe or something.

Kofi Drinka said:
She sounds American to me. The way Emma Watson sounds American because she spent so much time hob nobbing with the yanks and barely living in the UK.

Do not like it. Where's a proper accent for her? Ee by gum I arr Inglash.
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Given you didn't know what a hand shandy was and the amount of times you tell people you're English, I doubt it sometimes.
 
So Trump has included the UK in his newly announced 10% tariffs on a range of countries in Europe over Greenland.

But I thought every country in the world already had 10% tariffs?
 
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