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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.

 

[GloJojo]

@Morethanabitfoolish can't quote/reply to your post directly, sorry!
Birmingham City Uni allegedly- couldn't find him in their staff directory, but it could be due to his retirement.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

@Morethanabitfoolish can't quote/reply to your post directly, sorry!
Birmingham City Uni allegedly- couldn't find him in their staff directory, but it could be due to his retirement.

Thanks.
It might be nothing but time on Kiwi Farms has me paranoid.

Also let's be clear here. The police could have not engaged with him and just fined him. If he was driving there'd be an argument to be made that they had to pursue because if he was drunk and hit anyone they'd be getting shit for that. But it's entirely possible they could have just let this go and avoided the headache.

And mooning police speed camera vans should not only not be illegal but frankly should be encouraged.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Absolutely no reason to escalate this, just pigs with hurt fee-fees. Uk police need to do some fucking work for once.

 

[AnOminous]

So send him a fucking letter telling him he's getting a fine. Fuck these limey pigs. Such worthless pathetic excuses for "law enforcement." These worthless cowardly pigs just finally saw a collar they could get without actually having to deal with actual criminals.

Just like they harass people who made a Nazi hate post on social media like "women actually exist."

A country that puts up with pigs like this deserves them.

 

[Florence]

The RAF’s just lost its first F-35.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

The RAF’s just lost its first F-35.

I wonder if it’s the same problem the Americans had with the fuel line.

 

[East_Clintwood]

The RAF’s just lost its first F-35.

It'll be interesting to see if it's operator error, a malfunction or a combination. Either way it's an expensive fucky-wucky by someone.

Also the fact the yank crayon eaters have more planes than we do on our own fucking carrier is an absolute joke.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

It'll be interesting to see if it's operator error, a malfunction or a combination. Either way it's an expensive fucky-wucky by someone.

Also the fact the yank crayon eaters have more planes than we do on our own fucking carrier is an absolute joke.

You just summed up our entire armed forces; An absolute joke.

Sad times.

 

[East_Clintwood]

You just summed up our entire armed forces; An absolute joke.

Sad times.

Sad times doesn't remotely cover it.
We have modern carriers that somehow don't have catapults, don't have enough planes for full airwings and don't have even their shitty AWACS helicopters.
The RAF is being stuck with the inferior F35B (despite not needing the STOVL capability) presumably so they can be nicked for the carriers as needed. Even then our early F35s may not even be able to fire our Meteor missiles (one of the few bright spots for our air force) because the gov won't shell out for the software upgrade.
Finally in 2 years we'll finally be retiring our obsolete Harpoon missiles, but the replacement won't be ready until the 2030s, and they've paused the interim replacement. That means pretty soon we're looking at almost a decade of a navy with no ship based anti-ship weaponry, and the Type 26s being launched with proper missile tubes (that the type 45s somehow lack), but no missiles to go in them.

How the fuck we ended up like this despite somehow still having the 5th highest defense spending in the world is something I genuinely cannot explain despite the amount of time/interest I spend on military related stuff

 

[Snekposter]

How the fuck we ended up like this despite somehow still having the 5th highest defense spending in the world is something I genuinely cannot explain despite the amount of time/interest I spend on military related stuff

Considering the number of parodies made about the UK government... do you really need to ask that question? Its bumbling incompetence occasionally punctuated by entirely too-competent strongmen. For all the shit the US government rightfully gets it at least manages to stumble along, even if its in a barely-functioning state, unlike yours.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Sad times doesn't remotely cover it.
We have modern carriers that somehow don't have catapults, don't have enough planes for full airwings and don't have even their shitty AWACS helicopters.
The RAF is being stuck with the inferior F35B (despite not needing the STOVL capability) presumably so they can be nicked for the carriers as needed. Even then our early F35s may not even be able to fire our Meteor missiles (one of the few bright spots for our air force) because the gov won't shell out for the software upgrade.
Finally in 2 years we'll finally be retiring our obsolete Harpoon missiles, but the replacement won't be ready until the 2030s, and they've paused the interim replacement. That means pretty soon we're looking at almost a decade of a navy with no ship based anti-ship weaponry, and the Type 26s being launched with proper missile tubes (that the type 45s somehow lack), but no missiles to go in them.

How the fuck we ended up like this despite somehow still having the 5th highest defense spending in the world is something I genuinely cannot explain despite the amount of time/interest I spend on military related stuff

Cyber “warfare” of course.

 

[Billy Beer]

Rafiq sorry for anti-Semitic messages

Azeem Rafiq apologises and says he is "deeply ashamed" for using anti-Semitic language in Facebook messages from 2011.

www.bbc.co.uk

Literally (as in, literally literally, not dramatised nancy words) cries about racism at Yorkshire Cricket Club, gets the county banned from all England games, causes a huge stink resulting in resignations. Turns out, he's an anti-semite and is "sorry".

"sorry" ?!? Fuck you, arsehole. Nobody at the club got chance for a piss-poor apology, yet you went balls to wall over racism and cost the county England matches. Cunt.

This nob head and Johnson have really fucked the Norff and Yorkshire this weekend.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Rafiq sorry for anti-Semitic messages

Azeem Rafiq apologises and says he is "deeply ashamed" for using anti-Semitic language in Facebook messages from 2011.

www.bbc.co.uk

Literally (as in, literally literally, not dramatised nancy words) cries about racism at Yorkshire Cricket Club, gets the county banned from all England games, causes a huge stink resulting in resignations. Turns out, he's an anti-semite and is "sorry".

"sorry" ?!? Fuck you, arsehole. Nobody at the club got chance for a piss-poor apology, yet you went balls to wall over racism and cost the county England matches. Cunt.

This nob head and Johnson have really fucked the Norff and Yorkshire this weekend.

Yeah the instant the mate of his who he threw under the bus said that he was not going to share the context of similar messages it was guaranteed something like this was in there. And this was not even that guy.

The whole thing is going to get increasingly scummy as layers are peeled back

https://twitter.com/claud_mendoza/status/1461365537611472904?s=21

Checking the Twitter thread where someone has "forgiven" him it looks like the message that caused this is in there;

Clearly a pair of A&N posters. Of course the person whose thread it is has some suspect stuff of her own.

Now of course tweets can be manipulated. But this all seems very believable.

For something verifiable though let's see how Insulate Britain are doing;

Insulate Britain protestor vows to block motorway again if not jailed

AN Insulate Britain activist threatened violence if protests were banned and vowed to block a motorway "at the earliest opportunity" if he avoids prison today.

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Insulate Britain protestor vows to block motorway again if not jailed​

AN Insulate Britain activist threatened violence if protests were banned and vowed to block a motorway "at the earliest opportunity" if he avoids prison today.​

Nine Insulate Britain activists jailed for blocking M25 - statement​

Ben Taylor told the High Court if he is not jailed for breaching an injunction banning disruptive protests on roads, he will "go and block the motorway" as soon as possible. However he added: "If you somehow manage to stop all non-violent protests, then things will only turn violent."

He vowed to carry on disruption until the Government "makes a meaningful statement and acts on it". Mr Taylor added: "If you send me away to prison, ten people will step forward in my place."
Another campaigner Oliver Roc, 41, said: "We've been told that quite probably we'll get custodial sentences, so there's a high likelihood I'll be in a prison cell somewhere.
"I feel terrified, I'm c******* myself and I feel like crying. I've just got all these emotions coming out of me." However, he added he did not have any regrets and maintained the Government needed to "get on with" insulating Britain's homes.

He said: "It seems ridiculous that we're in this situation when what we're asking the Government to do is just extremely practical."

Protestors outside the Royal Courts of Justice. (Image: SOPA Images/SIPA USA/PA Images)
The climate change activists from Insulate Britain were in court yesterday for breaching High Court injunctions to prevent disruptive protests. They caused chaos in the last two months, blocking the M25, roads around Parliament and in Birmingham, Manchester and Dover.
Lawyers representing National Highways told the court yesterday that the nine admit the breaches, although two have asked the agency to withdraw an allegation relating to a ban on refusing to leave the road when asked by police or officials.

Most intimidating. How did it go?

Nine Insulate Britain activists jailed for breach of road blockades injunction

Judge imposes sentences ranging up to six months, saying some of them ‘seem to want to be martyrs’

www.theguardian.com

Nine Insulate Britain protesters have been jailed for breaking a court order banning them from protesting on the M25, by a judge who said no lesser penalty “would adequately mark the gravity of the defendants’ conduct”.

Ana Heyatawin, 58, and Louis McKechnie, 21, were jailed for three months while Dr Ben Buse, 36, Roman Paluch-Machnik, 28, Oliver Roc, 41, Emma Smart, 44, Tim Speers, 36, and James Thomas, 47, each received four-month sentences.

Ben Taylor was jailed for six months, with Dame Victoria Sharp, the president of the Queen’s bench division of the high court, describing his comments in court as “inflammatory” and a “call to arms”. On Tuesday he had told her he would return to block roads if she did not jail him, and promised that others would follow his example.

The judge, sitting with Mr Justice Chamberlain, said there was no alternative to custodial sentences given that the group’s actions were so serious and they had made it clear they intended to further flout court orders.

She said: “Importantly, none of the defendants has demonstrated any contrition or understanding of the seriousness of deliberately breaching a court order. Each continues to believe that his or her actions were justified.

Why do so many people hate Insulate Britain? Inside the controversial protest movement
“The defendants, or some of them, seem to want to be martyrs for their cause and the media campaign surrounding this hearing appears designed to suggest this. We, however, have to act dispassionately and proportionately.”


Sharp said protests “causing some degree of inconvenience are to be expected and, up to a point, tolerated” in a democratic society that recognised the right to freedom of assembly.

“But the words ‘up to a point’ are important,” she said. “Ordinary members of the public have rights too, including the right to use the highways.

“By deliberately defying the M25 order, these defendants broke the social contract under which in a democratic society the public can properly be expected to tolerate peaceful protest,” the judge added, drawing a cry from Roc of “the social contract is broken”.

Myriam Stacey QC, representing National Highways, made an application to recover £91,000 in costs from the defendants. Owen Greenhall, representing Buse, pointed out that the sum included nearly £17,000 for advice alone. “That’s not a reasonable or proportionate sum,” Greenhall said.

Smart said: “I’ve spent the last three years voluntarily working in wildlife conservation and climate activism. You are claiming more for postage than I’ve earned in the last three years, which is absolutely obscene. The fact that you are profiting from our stand, trying to save the lives of 8,500 a year, I find obscene.”

As the group were led to the cells by security officers, they and their supporters chanted “we are unstoppable, another world is possible”. Outside the courtroom, supporters sang happy birthday to McKechnie, who turned 21 on Wednesday.

Insulate Britain said Smart had announced she would immediately begin a hunger strike.

Speaking to reporters outside the court, Tracey Mallaghan, a spokesperson for the group, said: “A few hundred people captured the country’s attention for months. Think what 1,000 people can achieve? You have a choice. To act, to come and join us help change the tide of history, or to be a bystander and be complicit in enabling genocide.”

National Highways welcomed the verdict. “The judge’s decision will hopefully make people think again about carrying out reckless and dangerous protests such as these,” a spokesperson said.

Raj Chada, a solicitor at the Hodge Jones and Allen law firm who supported the protesters, said: “With these prison terms, the long and honourable tradition of civil disobedience is under attack again. Rather than leaving courts to imprison those that raise the alarm, it should be the government that acts to protect us against the climate crisis.”

Should have been years not months and the fines should have had a 0 on the end. But a start.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Boris Johnson hits back at critics over social care at stormy PMQs

Labour's Keir Starmer accuses the prime minister of "broken promises" on social care and rail investment.

www.bbc.co.uk

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on great form, says deputy PM Dominic…

archived 24 Nov 2021 10:21:16 UTC

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Why do I feel like Boris is about to get a knife in the back?

 

[CWCissey]

Boris Johnson hits back at critics over social care at stormy PMQs

Labour's Keir Starmer accuses the prime minister of "broken promises" on social care and rail investment.

www.bbc.co.uk

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on great form, says deputy PM Dominic…

archived 24 Nov 2021 10:21:16 UTC

archive.md

Why do I feel like Boris is about to get a knife in the back?

Because Gove is still about?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Boris Johnson hits back at critics over social care at stormy PMQs

Labour's Keir Starmer accuses the prime minister of "broken promises" on social care and rail investment.

www.bbc.co.uk

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on great form, says deputy PM Dominic…

archived 24 Nov 2021 10:21:16 UTC

archive.md

Why do I feel like Boris is about to get a knife in the back?

Because it's a good time for it?
I think he's going to make it to the next general election, if he stands I'm not sure even if the Conservatives win he'll make it through to another.

 

[Coolio55]

Considering the number of parodies made about the UK government... do you really need to ask that question? Its bumbling incompetence occasionally punctuated by entirely too-competent strongmen. For all the shit the US government rightfully gets it at least manages to stumble along, even if its in a barely-functioning state, unlike yours.

But it's not incompetence. It's entirely competent embezzlement.

Boris Johnson hits back at critics over social care at stormy PMQs

Labour's Keir Starmer accuses the prime minister of "broken promises" on social care and rail investment.

www.bbc.co.uk

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on great form, says deputy PM Dominic…

archived 24 Nov 2021 10:21:16 UTC

archive.md

Why do I feel like Boris is about to get a knife in the back?

Who will replace him though? I know all they have to do is look better than the sectoid that Labour's currently trotting out but all I see is a bunch of literally whos.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

But it's not incompetence. It's entirely competent embezzlement.


Who will replace him though? I know all they have to do is look better than the sectoid that Labour's currently trotting out but all I see is a bunch of literally whos.

Maybe they’d go for the hat-trick with female prime ministers. Liz Trust or even Pritti Patel for maximum salt so they could get the double whammy of females leader and first PoC leader. Trust is more capable not to mention Javid and Sunak were never that popular.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

I hope you all kept those face nappies because your gonna be wearing them again

No reversal guys remember that one?

 

[Coolio55]

"We don't know how effective our vaccines will be"
Wow. That's a pretty racist thing to say Mr. Johnston. Do you doubt our lords and saviours Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates?