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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.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

What do people think about Robert Jenrick sharing private messages from Orla Minihane, where she asks for support in becoming a local MP candidate and says she wants to be involved in creating Reform's safeguarding policy for women and girls. Seems like quite the milquetoast reveal? Woman who is doing just that for Restore, had hoped to do it for the party she was a member of, before growing disillusioned with them.

Is Reform that desperate to discredit Restore in any way they can? Or is it a veiled threat to any current Reform members, 'leave and we'll reveal your texts.'


https://x.com/orlaminihane/status/2058903128628457974

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Is Reform that desperate to discredit Restore in any way they can? Or is it a veiled threat to any current Reform members, 'leave and we'll reveal your texts.'

Yes.

They know Restore are saying what people want while Reform are just cuckservatives again.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

One of the bank bosses said the quiet part aloud.

https://archive.ph/EYH0o

Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

The boss of Standard Chartered has apologised after describing employees whose jobs are vulnerable to being replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) as "lower value human capital".
Discussing how automation was likely to lead to thousands of job cuts at the bank at a recent conference, Bill Winters said it wasn't about cost cutting but "replacing, in some cases, lower value, human capital, with the financial capital and the investment capital that we're putting in".
He later sought to contextualise the remarks via LinkedIn and said he was sorry for his wording, which had "caused upset to some colleagues".
He said he was committed to helping staff "cope with the accelerating pace of change".
The rise of AI tools has led to predictions of huge job losses, particularly for tech workers and graduates.
Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, as well as financial services firms, have already blamed tens of thousands of layoffs on AI over the last year.
Standard Chartered is a global bank headquartered in the UK, and is understood to employ around 82,000 people, with most of these in back-office roles.
In Winters's first post, he said he wanted to clear up what he said and why at the investors conference.


He said the bank had shared its expectation that back-office roles would be cut by about 15% over the next four years - about 7,800 roles.
For years the bank has helped colleagues "whose roles may be displaced by automation to build the skills needed for new opportunities within our organisation", Winters said.
"In that context, I said that lower-value roles are more vulnerable to automation, and that we have a responsibility to help colleagues move into higher-value roles," he wrote.
"That is what a responsible employer should do, and I am proud that our track record in supporting internal transitions is strong."
In a follow-up post, he said while he had received "a lot of support" in response to the first post, people still had questions - and he was sharing a transcript of the comments he made so they could better understand the "important point I was raising".
He said the full remarks showed he valued all colleagues "most highly and that we are totally committed to helping them to cope with the accelerating pace of change in our industry".
In comments under the second post, one person said they were struggling to see the difference between the conference and written remarks. "This was either a poor choice of words or an honest belief that came out as intended," they wrote.
Another said: "You will forever be known as the guy who believes his employees are 'lower value'."

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Just adding ceiling fans to each room helps immensely, those alone are usually enough to keep you cool up in to the 80’s.

The 80s? What has Kyle Minogue, Duran Duran and Castle Greyskull got to do with this?

PSA: Everyone with pets keep an eye on them:

My stupid bugger was whining for his walk from 3pm onwards. Totally refused to use the garden to pee in - he wanted the park, and nothing but the park would do.

We put up with the whine-a-thon until 9pm then took him to said park. He got halfway round, did a shite the size of a small Scottish city, then wanted to come home.

He’s now upstairs, because it’s warmer up there and it’s too hot. Dog logic.

I shall respectfully quibble on this matter. Modern houses are like that and environmental regs and efficiency ratings are part of it. Also a lot of previously fine houses ended up with fucking cavity wall insulation, the owners never asking why there were cavities in the first place. But older and traditional British houses are quite nice actually. I mentioned up thread about how casement windows should be opened to maximise air flow - sadly can't do that with the more popular bottom opening ones - which are now pushed for fire "safety" (so you can fall out the bottom of them). And old brick houses were good for keeping the heat in the winter but being able to radiate it out in the winter.

What you need is a cellar. Especially if it’s a cellar with a door or window that opens at ground level somewhere. With that door or window open, you get a great cool breeze emanating from the cellar when you’re out garden partying.

No cellar? Rooms with outside walls and the least windows possible. Under stairs cupboards, downstairs bathrooms, that kind of thing. Don’t be too proud to sleep in the bath!

Avoid attic rooms like the plague when the weather heats up. Unless you want to know what it feels like to be in an oven.

 

[Anomalous Coward]

seems Keir has torn up police pensions as well

Hahahaha! Suffer, pigs!