UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

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.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Ik they dont show up and solve normal crimes but antisemitic crimes or anti islamist crimes always seem to get quick results. Like that mosque van that got set on fire

If you call them while you're being robbed, they'll be around like lightning if they get even a whiff of the possibility that you're going to fight back. Just the phrase "there's a knife in the kitchen" will send a dozen of them, blue-lighting like it's end of shift and there's traffic on the way back at the station.

Are they actually really hard on anti muslim shit or is it just them pushing certain solved crimes harder in the media to give the appearence that they are hard on anti muslim crime?

Bit of both. They have performance quotas, thanks to Blair's police reforms, which are heavily weighted to consider how they're supporting and protecting "diversity". "hate" crimes, or even non-crime hate incidents, also pad out the stats and are piss-easy to investigate, meaning they can be back in their comfy car as soon as possible and not have to worry about their next performance review going south.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

If you call them while you're being robbed, they'll be around like lightning if they get even a whiff of the possibility that you're going to fight back. Just the phrase "there's a knife in the kitchen" will send a dozen of them, blue-lighting like it's end of shift and there's traffic on the way back at the station.

And then you will be sent on a course to correct your behaviour.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

They're exceptionally quick and heavy handed with white British people complaining on Facebook lol

But that's handing them a win. How many people complain about shit but do not get arrested for it? The only reason they are so heavy handed in those cases is because they know that they have no fucking chance in the wider society and have to set an example. There's more people in this thread saying shit that if done on facebook under your real name would get you arrested than there were people actually arrested for online posts. Obviously that's still too many. But that's the point of making an example, to scare people from doing something similar, instead of setting an actual precedent. The point in being quick and heavy handed is not because that's their standard, it's because they want you to think that's the standard.

Have you ever heard someone be arrested for online posts that wasn't doing it with their real name? You can lie and use a fake name to post slurs. I can wear a balaclava and commit arson at night. If it's not a serious crime or something easy to solve they don't give a shit or are just genuinely too inept.

 

[EddyRooney]

But that's handing them a win. How many people complain about shit but do not get arrested for it? The only reason they are so heavy handed in those cases is because they know that they have no fucking chance in the wider society and have to set an example. There's more people in this thread saying shit that if done on facebook under your real name would get you arrested than there were people actually arrested for online posts. Obviously that's still too many. But that's the point of making an example, to scare people from doing something similar, instead of setting an actual precedent. The point in being quick and heavy handed is not because that's their standard, it's because they want you to think that's the standard.

Have you ever heard someone be arrested for online posts that wasn't doing it with their real name? You can lie and use a fake name to post slurs. I can wear a balaclava and commit arson at night. If it's not a serious crime or something easy to solve they don't give a shit or are just genuinely too inept.

Know and respect your enemy ! It is only very very stupid people who think the law is stupid.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Reminder that the reason you have to use a VPN to access the farms is because Null can't be assed getting sued in UK courts to just refuses to operate here.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, GCHQ and MI5 don't give a shit about you saying that Kier Starmer hires male prossies. They have far more important shit to do.

All the Cyber Police cunts arresting people for twitter posts or whatsapp messages are some retarded higher ups goons and not 99% of the police force. Most frontline officers are tired, overworked and fed up. But those frontline officers are slowly being replaced by zoomers who only do what they're told.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Reminder that the reason you have to use a VPN to access the farms

Oh no you don't, my VPN is set to LANDAN right now and it works just fine, you really should be using a VPN just in case but there's nothing preventing barebacking via your residential IP either. It was a thing for a while last year, but joshi let it expire/realised it was silly and never got around to setting it back up again.

Most frontline officers are tired, overworked and fed up. But those frontline officers are slowly being replaced by zoomers who only do what they're told.

Awww the poor little lambs, oh well, they're still going on the pyre with all the rest of them

 

[Camo Fox]

Reminder that the reason you have to use a VPN to access the farms is because Null can't be assed getting sued in UK courts to just refuses to operate here.

Virgin Media used to have the website blocked back in 2023 but I'm pretty sure they have given up on that now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67275151

 

[Clem Fandango]

Is this the way to Armadillo?
Every night I've been hugging my pillow
Dreaming dreams of Armadillo
And sweet

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who waits for me
Show me the way to Armadillo
I've been weeping like a willow
Crying over Armadillo
And sweet

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who waits for me

Pakis set fire to stuff all the time. Could be pakis or an insurance scam. Never trust any "ethnic" services like police or medical care. They're never on your side.

Your song inspired me to write "The Millennial Prayer"

When I was 17, it was a very shit year
It was a very shit year for the war on terror
And the world at large
Tony Blair was in charge
There were no WMDs
When I was 17

When I was 21, it was a very shit year
It was a very shit year for Northern Rock
And the banks were all fucked
But you could still smoke in pubs
So at least that was fun
When I was 21

When I was 35, it was a very shit year
It was a very shit year for covid tests
And the lockdown blues
But my son was born
And so I felt alive
When I was 35

But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of my years
And now I think of my life as cheap cider
In those two litre bottles
We drank outside Greggs
It poured brackish and clear
It was a very shit year

 

[Overly Serious]

Your song inspired me to write "The Millennial Prayer"

When I was 17, it was a very shit year
It was a very shit year for the war on terror
And the world at large
Tony Blair was in charge
There were no WMDs
When I was 17

When I was 21, it was a very shit year
It was a very shit year for Northern Rock
And the banks were all fucked
But you could still smoke in pubs
So at least that was fun
When I was 21

When I was 35, it was a very shit year
It was a very shit year for covid tests
And the lockdown blues
But my son was born
And so I felt alive
When I was 35

But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of my years
And now I think of my life as cheap cider
In those two litre bottles
We drank outside Greggs
It poured brackish and clear
It was a very shit year

There's a thread in Art & Literature where people share the poetry they've written if you're interested. Also, if my maths is correct you're calling your early Forties "the autumn of [your] years". That's bad news for many here!

On another topic, my barometer of opinion, the Daily Mail comments section, continues to be surprisingly negative towards Trump and the Iran war, both in comments and votes. I can get a bit of a distorted view on things here on the Farms as whilst it leans Right, there's a strong gung-ho American contingent who love to be very enthusiastic about it I think mainly because "Liberals" are against it. Or because they can't only thing in terms of "muslim/anti-muslim". Despite that it's cost their country over $30bn so far. But I'm slightly surprised to see the Mail, generally Right-wing and its audience, quite skeptical. I need to talk to more people in person here but my general feeling is it's not that popular. Maybe £1.49/L petrol helps.

 

[Clem Fandango]

There's a thread in Art & Literature where people share the poetry they've written if you're interested. Also, if my maths is correct you're calling your early Forties "the autumn of [your] years". That's bad news for many here!

We do a little melodrama now and then lol. What got me thinking about this was literally a meme about millenials facing five "once in a lifetime disasters" before they turned forty. I realised pretty much my entire working life has just been lurching from one "event" to the next. What I wouldn't give for just a few years of peace and normalcy.

On the other hand, life's not been that bad really, at least for me personally. And I'm sure every generation feels like they -particularly - are hard done by. I look forward to seeing what the Zoomers whinge about in due course!

Thanks for the heads up on that thread I'll check it out.

 

[A-Logato]

there's a strong gung-ho American contingent who love to be very enthusiastic about it I think mainly because "Liberals" are against it.

There's a lot on the UK right who believe Trump is going to save them and lets be frank about that, all Trump has done is make some quips at Starmer and not improved our standard of living at all. The fact he's trying to drag the UK into a war that they've nothing to do with or America and Israel starting a war with Europe being most effected from the after effects is not something a lot on the UK right are very happy about.

 

[Otterly]

Also, if my maths is correct you're calling your early Forties "the autumn of [your] years". That's bad news for many here!

BRB, just crumbling into a small pile of ancient dust….

What got me thinking about this was literally a meme about millenials facing five "once in a lifetime disasters" before they turned forty.

There was a cohort in the early 80s that seems to have hit every single block - they changed the way gcse and a levels were marked, they got no student grants and full tuition fees, graduated into a recession etc.

And I'm sure every generation feels like they -particularly - are hard done by. I look forward to seeing what thr Zoomers whinge about in due course!

I mean it could be worse, if you’d been born around 1890s you’d have been drafted Into ww1 then seen your kids drafted into ww2.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I mean it could be worse, if you’d been born around 1890s you’d have been drafted Into ww1 then seen your kids drafted into ww2.

I have a print of Charles Spencelayh's "Why War?" hung up on the wall of my office. It basically depicts a WWI veteran sitting contemplatively on the eve of WWII:


Always good to keep things in perspective.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Bham City council leader ousted after no confidence vote

Birmingham City Council's leader has lost a vote of confidence, but his administration has insisted the "cheap trick" would have "no implications" for his leadership.

The vote against Labour's John Cotton came at the last full council meeting before local elections on 7 May.

All 101 council seats in Birmingham will be contested at a critical time for the city, which has suffered the fallout of effective bankruptcy and the ongoing bins strike.

Tensions over these issues lingered at Tuesday's meeting, which saw the Conservatives put in the no confidence vote in a last-minute amendment to a motion.
The motion argued that Labour had "broken Birmingham City Council" and triggered a heated debate within the council chamber.

The Tories were backed by other opposition councillors in the vote to outnumber the ruling group.

'Humilating and costly'

"We've had the council declaring effective bankruptcy which was humiliating and costly," Conservative councillor Deirdre Alden said. "On top of more taxes, we've got a collapse in services so it's a double whammy."

Liberal Democrat councillor Colin Green said the council was "broken but fixable" and argued mistakes by the Labour administration had inflicted huge financial pain on the authority.

Conservative group leader Robert Alden then told the chamber that an amendment saying the council had no confidence in the leader had been moved.

The following vote saw the amendment passed.

In the aftermath, Alden said: "Today's vote needs to be a turning point for Birmingham.

"Labour's leader has lost the confidence of the council because Labour has lost the confidence of the people."

The Labour group accused the Tories of playing a "cheap trick with the support of their allies in the Liberal Democrats and the Greens", adding it had "no implications for the leadership of the council".

"We are carrying on with the job of investing £130 million into frontline services across the city under the strong leadership of John Cotton," the group added.

At last month's budget meeting, the leader of the council said it was no longer bankrupt and that an extra £130 million was being invested in council services, focusing on "cleaner, safer streets".

Factors such as the equal pay dispute and problems with the Oracle IT system contributed to the financial crisis, while Labour councillors have pointed the finger at funding cuts during the previous Conservative government.

The bins dispute between the council and Unite was sparked by the loss of the Waste Recycling and Collection Officer role, with striking workers claiming that they faced a pay cut of £8,000.

Birmingham City Council has disputed this figure, however, and insisted that a fair offer had been made before negotiations ended last summer.

It is reported that Bham Council has spent 33 million on the bin strikes, which started over a pay dispute of 1.2 million

 

[Kofi Drinka]

On another topic, my barometer of opinion, the Daily Mail comments section, continues to be surprisingly negative towards Trump and the Iran war, both in comments and votes. I can get a bit of a distorted view on things here on the Farms as whilst it leans Right, there's a strong gung-ho American contingent who love to be very enthusiastic about it I think mainly because "Liberals" are against it. Or because they can't only thing in terms of "muslim/anti-muslim". Despite that it's cost their country over $30bn so far. But I'm slightly surprised to see the Mail, generally Right-wing and its audience, quite skeptical. I need to talk to more people in person here but my general feeling is it's not that popular. Maybe £1.49/L petrol helps.

Most mail readers remember the last forever wars in the middle east and how we got literally zero benefit from being involved. The last time we want is another one.

We do a little melodrama now and then lol. What got me thinking about this was literally a meme about millenials facing five "once in a lifetime disasters" before they turned forty. I realised pretty much my entire working life has just been lurching from one "event" to the next. What I wouldn't give for just a few years of peace and normalcy.

What if I faced a once in a lifetime disaster and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces knowing half of them are missing?

There's a lot on the UK right who believe Trump is going to save them and lets be frank about that, all Trump has done is make some quips at Starmer and not improved our standard of living at all.

The right believes Trump is good for pushing things in the right direction. But I don't think many after his first term consider him a solution. His second term started well but it's shit the bed since then. If Farage wasn't a retard, Farage plus Trump could have been a huge turning point for the UK and the wider world. Two heavily anti immigrant people working together to mass deport illegals would have changed the entire global land scape. They could have even teamed up to make some colony in Africa between them with "This is our country, we can put whoever we want there" as a deportation excuse.

But life did not go that way.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Bham City council leader ousted after no confidence vote

The Labour group accused the Tories of playing a "cheap trick with the support of their allies in the Liberal Democrats and the Greens", adding it had "no implications for the leadership of the council".

Nice to see Labour's grip on reality is as firm as ever.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Ex-Google boss confirmed as new BBC director general (archive)

Former Google executive Matt Brittin has been confirmed as the BBC's new director general.

The ex-president of Google's Europe, Middle East and Africa operations will replace Tim Davie, who said he was resigning in November following a storm over how Panorama edited a speech by US President Donald Trump.

BBC chairman Samir Shah said Brittin, who left Google in 2025 after 18 years, "brings to the BBC deep experience of leading a high-profile and highly-complex organisation through transformation".

Brittin, 57, said he "can't wait to start this work", describing it as "a moment of real risk, yet also real opportunity".

He said the UK needs "a thriving BBC that works for everyone in a complex, uncertain and fast changing world".

Setting out his agenda, he added: "The BBC needs the pace and energy to be both where stories are, and where audiences are. To build on the reach, trust and creative strengths today, confront challenges with courage, and thrive as a public service fit for the future."

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Only quoted part of it. It's mostly the BBC glazing itself.

Anyone else getting snow? The forecast said rain, but I've had a blizzard in the last hour.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Anyone else getting snow? The forecast said rain, but I've had a blizzard in the last hour.

Yes had hail pelting down and then it went really sunny, and then really dark. Snow flurries were forecast
PMQs round up. Miliband has his entire forearm and shoulder up Keir Starmer. Reform walked out after Keir dodged a question and instead asked them about increasing council tax or something. Idk very boring Keir answered no questions andddd the north sea remains closed.

 

[BongoMongo]

The BBC and Met Office have been cockteasing show for weeks now. It's still not appeared. Weather forecasts are now completely unreliable and I'm considering buying this year's farmers alamanac instead. At least that's and interesting read and there's no token niggers pr pakis in it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

No 10 refuses to say if key Mandelson texts were lost in phone theft (archive)

McSweeney has conveniently lost a phone that contained evidence against Mandelson.