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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.
 
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No reversal guys remember that one?
"We don't know how effective our vaccines will be".

We also don't know how dangerous the Unicron variant is. The overwhelming probability based on how corona viruses mutate and transmit is that it is less dangerous to health than the previous versions. The Delta is less harmful than the Alpha already, is it not?

Though that said I think we have a pretty good idea how effective the vaccine is against this strain given that it has very little effectiveness against the earlier ones.
 
At this point, I'd gladly take BoJo being replaced by any of the other current Tory darlings. They can't exactly do much worse. (I lived under BoJo for all eight years of his mayorhood, and both of his PM years, so I may be slightly biased.)

I just want a different group of parliamentary bastards for a bit to see how things pan out.
 
Bomb Squad called out to Gloucestershire hospital after man comes in with WWII artillery shell lodged in his rectum.

Remember that episode of the twilight zone when the president had an atomic bomb is his stomach?
 
Oh look, Labour MP reckons it was safer for gay people 30 years ago.
Senior Labour MP Chris Bryant has told the BBC he feels "less physically safe as a gay man" than he did 30 years ago.
The Rhondda MP accused the government of stoking a culture war, which he said always ended with people who are "slightly different" being targeted.
He told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast that Boris Johnson was not homophobic but some in government were happy to "stir the pot".
No 10 said the PM was proud of the government's record on LGBT issues.
The spokesman also said Mr Johnson was "absolutely clear there is no place for homophobic abuse".
Mr Bryant, who chairs the Commons standards committee, said he had discussed his concerns about culture wars - ideological battles about personal and societal issues - with "people who work in Downing Street".
"They've learned this trick in America from Trump and in the end culture wars will always pick on those who are slightly different and that means the gays, the Jews and the blacks and that's always the list that crops up whenever a populist government gets into power."
Asked for examples, he cited the government's stance on transgender people and that they were "not prepared" to implement a "proper ban" on conversion therapy.
Mr Bryant added: "There's a world where people who think it's politically advantageous to stir that pot and that makes me genuinely fearful.
'I'm not accusing the prime minister of being homophobic but I do feel less physically safe as a gay man than I did 30 years ago."
He said he didn't wake up in the morning "worrying I'm going to be gay-bashed" but expressed concern about a rise in hate crimes against LGBT people, adding that homophobia was "a very strong part of people's experience of modern Britain".
Responding to his comments, No 10 said: "The prime minister is proud of this government's record on LGBT issues and we continue to make progress in areas such as banning conversion therapy and extending same-sex marriage to all parts of the UK.
"He is also absolutely clear there is no place for homophobic abuse."

'A version of hell'​

Mr Bryant also talked about dealing with his mother's alcoholism when growing up and why he turned down an inheritance worth millions.
"I remember mum coming into my bedroom on my 13th birthday and telling me that she drank too much and the next few years at home were a version of hell really," he said.
"I had to look after mum for quite a while.... it meant I learnt to cook, to iron because mum was not able to do that.
"I felt very angry about it a lot of the time.... I can't tell you how many bottles of vodka I've poured down the drain.
He said his family initially couldn't work out how his mother was getting "quite so drunk in the kitchen".
"Avocados were the fashion then and everyone had an avocado stone with cocktail sticks suspended above water. We could never work out why ours never put down a root - it was because mum had vodka in it instead of water.
His mother later died, but he said he never knew if "she took her own life or whether she had drunk too much and taken too many paracetamol".

'Millions'​

Mr Bryant says he "could have come out as a mess" but credits three elderly relatives for helping him.
"They were phenomenally supportive of me," he says, adding that they had wanted him to inherit their estate in Aviemore, Scotland.
"It was many millions and I refused because I knew it would just change me, it would turn me into a different person from the person I wanted to be."
"My husband is furious with this now," he added.
"Every time we drive past a house and I say 'why don't we live in a house like that' he says because you gave the blasted money away you 'nana."

On to something less deserving of some people who were gay during that time personally curb stomping him we might finally be getting shipping wars I can enjoy.


Asda has revealed it chartered its own cargo ship to ensure key festive items such as toys, clothing and decorations reach its stores, in the latest example of the extreme measures retailers are taking to mitigate pre-Christmas supply chain problems.

The supermarket, which revealed in a trading update on Monday that sales fell 0.7% in the three months to 31 October, said the ship carrying 350 containers of items from east Asia was its first ever private charter.



Asda said it had also stocked up on extra turkeys and pigs in blankets in stores and was building supplies of mince pies, confectionery and puddings to head off problems in the final weeks before Christmas Day.


It said sales in the summer quarter were down in comparison with the same period a year before, when spending on homes and gardens was very strong as families adapted to lockdown life.

With rising concern about the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, which has raised fears about more high street lockdowns, Asda also said it had increased the capacity of its grocery home delivery service to 1m slots in the final week before Christmas, up from 765,000 in the same period last year.

The measures come as retailers pull out the stops to keep shelves stocked amid concerns about Christmas deliveries. A shortage of qualified lorry drivers, disruption in the distribution of containers during the pandemic and hold-ups in production in east Asia because of Covid restrictions have all held up delivery of products to the UK.

The global supply problems have combined with shortages of labour in the UK partly driven by changes to immigration rules after Brexit.

The problems have affected availability of a range of goods, from kitchen appliances and computers to turkeys and pigs in blankets.

The shortages have forced retailers to come up with inventive solutions. John Lewis teamed up with other retailers to charter container ships to deliver products and also flew in items such as Christmas lights. Tesco, meanwhile, has scaled up its use of rail freight and offered lorry drivers £1,000 signing on fees in order to secure deliveries.

Mohsin Issa and Zuber Issa, the billionaire brothers who bought a majority stake in Asda this year in partnership with the private equity firm TDR Capital, said: “We know how much Christmas means to our customers, especially after some missed out on celebrations with friends and family last year.

“Our colleagues have pulled out all the stops during the last few months to make sure customers can get their favourite festive products at Asda and enjoy the Christmas they deserve.”
 
30 years ago we were rocking out to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, neither of which demanded we suck their cock just because they were wearing eyeliner. So yeah, you probably were safer. Look at what you've achieved since then.

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Loving this couple. Couldn't find a thread on them, but I'm a nigger.


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They tortured their kid to death. Well, he was the biological father, the bitch was the stepmother. He's a fucked up looking twat, and she's not half bad considering how she has maimed herself with tats. She wouldn't look at a fuckwit like him in a million years without some deeper shit going on. Notice how they have tats on the same places. Same tats almost. Lot of mirroring going on there. Yeah dear, we can torture my kid if you love me...

The bloke got 20 odd years, the bitch got 30 or so. I doubt they will make it past the next few months really. While I do believe in a better justice system that gives protection to all prisoners, I just don't have any fucks left to give about these two. Let the hypocritical scum have at it. I have a feeling they will both be getting a lot of food with a bit too much salt in it. They poisoned that kid with overdoses of salt btw, if you didn't know.

The bloke is a tosser, you can tell from his face. He won't go down well and won't last two minutes among real hard men. The bitch will get hers as well, soon enough.

There's been a lot of bluster by football teams who want to get in on the grief whoring. Fuck them. They won't call for the real culprits to be held accountable - the social workers, the police. Fuck them deep. I hope they get cancer. Then there is the MP's calling for stronger sentences for the two nonces. U wot M8? Just more pablum for the masses when the real people that need to be strung up for this (social workers, police) get a free pass.

Lessons will be learned. Who gives a fuck.

The best part of the story is, his mum was giving a heart felt story to the dailymail about how he was such a sweet kid. She fucking stabbed her boyfriend to death and got away with it then got banged up for 'life' herself on her second trial. A right little fat ginger cunt. Kid never stood a chance.

You can take all your gore and all your mexican chainsaw massacres. Just tune in to the dailymail website and watch this young lad, hours from death, pacing the room, crying to himself: Nobody loves me, nobody is going to feed me.

Jesus wept.

The bloke just has that very punchable face. The Germans have a name for it: Backpfeifengesicht - roughly translated as 'A face badly in need of a fist'.

The stupid cunt could have taken out her sadistic tendencies on blokes that like that kind of thing. She would have made a small fortune as a Dominatrix in her native Solihull (suburb of Brum). The blokes around there are all macho, but they like that kind of thing. But no, she decided to torture a child.

In five years time the destiny of these two will be known.

Here are the two cunts eating ice cream and micky dee's while little arthur is being tortured in the corner. So fuck stupid are they, they actually set up a home surveillance system to incriminate themselves later. More fearful of the bad wolves of Solihull than they were of themselves. Go figure.




Some people are just stupid. Some people are evil and stupid. I rest my case.

RIP little Arthur. Your mum was a murderer, and so was your stepmother.

Reminds me of this song -

I feel for you, you little horror Safe at your mother's breast
No lucky break for you around the corner
'Cos your father is a bully And he thinks that you're a pest
And your sister, she's no better than a whore
Life seems so rosy in the cradle
But I'll be a friend, I'll tell you what's in store
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow
There's nothing to grow up for any more

Tycoons and barrow boys will rob you
And throw you on the side
And all because they love themselves sincerely
And the man holds a bread-knife Up to your throat, is four feet wide
And he's anxious just to show you what it's for

Your mother works so hard to make you happy
But take a look outside the nursery door
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow
There's nothing to grow up for any more

All the sad and empty faces That pass you on the street
All running in their sleep, all in a dream
Every loving handshake Is just another man to beat
How your heart aches just to cut him to the core

Life seems so rosy in the cradle
But I'll be a friend, I'll tell you what's in store
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow
There's nothing to grow up for any more
 
Loving this couple. Couldn't find a thread on them, but I'm a nigger.
I was honestly hoping they wouldn't make their way onto the site since there's nothing really about them worth discussing save for whether or not anyone who beats them to death in prison should be allowed out early. They're scum and I'll freely admit I'm too much of a wimp to watch the videos of the poor child.

She at least knows she's a dad woman walking if word gets out;
Elaine Pritchard, who spent six weeks locked up with Tustin at Eastwood Park Prison in Gloucestershire, said the only time she shed a tear while on remand was for herself – after Hughes ignored her at a court hearing.

Miss Pritchard told the Sunday Mirror: 'Emma hadn't said anything about Arthur dying. She never mentioned him.' Instead, Tustin told inmates she was being held in prison because Hughes had 'neglected' his son.
 
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It depends where they send him on how long he will live. Wakefield or Armley Max and he'll be pushing daisies by Easter.
 
They won’t be cancelled in England but massively reduced imo. Scotland, Wales and NI however not a chance of seeing one anywhere.
Place I live, no one cares about the masks. They didnt wear them the first time, and they continue to not car. Chip shop (my local) even has a sign on the window "fuck masks", simple and to the point. Amazing how living in an entirely white area really opens your eyes. I was born in a city, so the last decade has been so strange to me with rural isolationist lifestyles. No crime either, worst we get is people torching their barns for insurance, which I think is funny. Oh and we had some bloke growing weed, slap on the wrist, and he continues to do it now I think. Everyone is friendly as well, people just talk to you in the street. Oh and everyone hates London, and I have not seen a single BLM sign here ever.
 
Place I live, no one cares about the masks. They didnt wear them the first time, and they continue to not car. Chip shop (my local) even has a sign on the window "fuck masks", simple and to the point. Amazing how living in an entirely white area really opens your eyes. I was born in a city, so the last decade has been so strange to me with rural isolationist lifestyles. No crime either, worst we get is people torching their barns for insurance, which I think is funny. Oh and we had some bloke growing weed, slap on the wrist, and he continues to do it now I think. Everyone is friendly as well, people just talk to you in the street. Oh and everyone hates London, and I have not seen a single BLM sign here ever.
where to do you live, the Falkland Islands? I
thought there was at least some brown everywhere in the blightlands by now.


just say the county, don't need to give a full address.
 
where to do you live, the Falkland Islands? I
thought there was at least some brown everywhere in the blightlands by now.


just say the county, don't need to give a full address.
Britain is approximately 80% White. Birmingham and London are multicultural, but the countryside is still White. The left have been trying to encourage PoC to move into the countryside for years, but they're not interested. They seem to prefer cities for some reason.
 
where to do you live, the Falkland Islands? I
thought there was at least some brown everywhere in the blightlands by now.


just say the county, don't need to give a full address.
Well the UK is 86% white, so most of the areas outside London and Birmingham are all white, or mostly white. And I cannot say which county because fucking hardly anyone even lives in it. I am on the North East Coast, I will say that much.

Brown is pretty low in numbers, and they all seem to live in Birmingham and London, handful in some other cities, mostly connected to Universities.

Black is even lower, I think its 3% of people are black. Although if you watch our adverts, you would think this is Nigeria with the handful of token white gay men (always femme fags to a butch masc black man, of course).

The UK is like America in many ways, most of it is a great place to live, once you ignore the major cities (Leeds is a fucking dump for example). Like in Yankistan, I bet most of the middle of the country is great to live, but Commiefornia and Jew York are shitholes.

I suspect its the same story in most European nations as well, few shit hole cities but its mostly pretty nice.
 
Well the UK is 86% white, so most of the areas outside London and Birmingham are all white, or mostly white. And I cannot say which county because fucking hardly anyone even lives in it. I am on the North East Coast, I will say that much.

Brown is pretty low in numbers, and they all seem to live in Birmingham and London, handful in some other cities, mostly connected to Universities.

Black is even lower, I think its 3% of people are black. Although if you watch our adverts, you would think this is Nigeria with the handful of token white gay men (always femme fags to a butch masc black man, of course).

The UK is like America in many ways, most of it is a great place to live, once you ignore the major cities (Leeds is a fucking dump for example). Like in Yankistan, I bet most of the middle of the country is great to live, but Commiefornia and Jew York are shitholes.

I suspect its the same story in most European nations as well, few shit hole cities but its mostly pretty nice.
As an east coast urbanite, I can definitely agree, though our diversity is more evenly spread. to truly get to an almost white area in the us, you'd have to drive about two hours outside any major metropolitan area, and in the south a d southwest you'll still see a lot of black and brown people in rural areas.
 
Well the UK is 86% white, so most of the areas outside London and Birmingham are all white, or mostly white. And I cannot say which county because fucking hardly anyone even lives in it. I am on the North East Coast, I will say that much.

Brown is pretty low in numbers, and they all seem to live in Birmingham and London, handful in some other cities, mostly connected to Universities.

Black is even lower, I think its 3% of people are black. Although if you watch our adverts, you would think this is Nigeria with the handful of token white gay men (always femme fags to a butch masc black man, of course).

The UK is like America in many ways, most of it is a great place to live, once you ignore the major cities (Leeds is a fucking dump for example). Like in Yankistan, I bet most of the middle of the country is great to live, but Commiefornia and Jew York are shitholes.

I suspect its the same story in most European nations as well, few shit hole cities but its mostly pretty nice.
As a man of the Norf (Born in brum, but moved); I can also confirm that the norf is pretty low in mud concentration - not low enough mind, but still - and honestly I've been seeing more chinese than I have any other foreign ethnicity recently. York is absolutely filled with the Chinese. Probably a university thing.
 
As a man of the Norf (Born in brum, but moved); I can also confirm that the norf is pretty low in mud concentration - not low enough mind, but still - and honestly I've been seeing more chinese than I have any other foreign ethnicity recently. York is absolutely filled with the Chinese. Probably a university thing.
Young Chinese in the UK are mainlanders coming as University Students looking for an easy degree while older Chinese will be from Hong Kong.
 

An Asda shopper was left fuming when he got home to discover that the mince pies he bought were much smaller than the packaging.


Liam Smith visited the supermarket giant's Reddish store and bought a pack of four 'Baker's Selection' mince pies.


He bought the treats as a contribution to a family get-together but when he arrived, he realised that the pies were a fraction of the size of the plastic packaging they were stored in.

Mince pies and christmas are srs business. Also can we all take a moment to appreciate someone complaining about the size of an item being smaller than the packaging when they're in a fucking see through box. Also imagine being the kind of petty cunt who goes to the papers to complain, and then even poses for the obligatory "sad face while holding my item and the receipt" photo. Honestly Asda should tell him to got eat a bag of dicks instead and then ban him from shopping their in future so he can't whine about their shit.
 
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