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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.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

The Blairites won't allow another candidate that differs from them to be voted for leader. They will no doubt try and block any attempt as such for their members to vote in someone that isn't following the code of Blair.

It's actually disgusting how calcified British politics is right now. Both sides are essentially just fielding Blair with a twist, it's like you can only buy Coke Lime, or Coke Lemon. I don't want Coke, I want a decent fucking PM!

 

[Weeb_Killer]

Nobody is enthused by the two candidates who are vying for the office of British Prime Minister.

They arrive in the wake of a succession of weak leaders: The Pigfucker who orchestrated the Brexit referendum then buggered off the day after the result so that he wouldn't have to deal with the fallout; the Maybot who was keen at all times to point out that she had made it "very clear," though what she had made clear was generally unclear. Finally, the dishevelled Womble who found himself half-trapped inside a discarded suit while rifling through the litter on Wimbledon Common, and who hid his malignant psychopathy behind a veil of glib buffoonery.

Truss is what happens when different factions within a party play chicken, and a retard slips through in the midst of all the bickering.

Rishi is the kind of person who calls you out of the blue from a boiler room with some hot stock options that he wants to recommend.

It's a horrible choice, like being asked to select which one of a pair of blunt, rusting implements will be used to saw off your bollocks.

We are teetering on the brink of a global shitstorm. Our supply chains are stretched thin. Come winter, reserves of food and energy are likely to fall short of demand. Our leaders and our institutions have been captured by ideology and rendered, at best, impotent, and, at worst, openly hostile towards the people who they were meant to serve. Britain is further handicapped by its wilful departure from one of the world's largest trading blocks.

If there was a moment for King Arthur to return from Avalon and haul our arses out of the fire, then it is now. Unfortunately, the instant he set foot on English soil he would be cancelled by cunts.

And, my God if Johnson attempted a comeback I think there would have to be soldiers deployed to deal with the public response. Whatever strings his inexpert puppet-masters were using to move him around Westminster, now need to be used to securely bind him, like a fly in a spiderweb, where he can do no more harm.

Laughed my arse off at the image of King Arthur getting cancelled by pink-haired communists. It's so true. I'd be crying if the situation was any less dire.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Nah, he'll do what he always does and say it's not his responsibility any more.

e: Katie McCann just passed out while hosting the latest leadership debate. Sounds like she went down like a bag of cement.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62273292

Apparently it was during Truss' bit.

Not going to lie, if she can trigger that on demand I'm all for her as PM. She'll put half of the world leaders into comas before the rest work out what's going on.

 

[Failed Lurker]

Truss was starting to talk about responding to Putin then she freaks a little, freezes as you hear the presenter falling of her podium...couple of thuds but camera is still on Truss who eventually decides to respond and walk round.

Not seen it go longer in any clips, whether that's cause they're clipping out or the original broadcast still played or cut to a title card.

https://youtu.be/eeixpRRdZ5s

https://youtu.be/L8k5uq1kQo8

Edit to add links.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Also, this is my grug brain talking, but hearing the likepy next PM scream like a little girl in fright really, really did not endear her.

 

[Irrelevant]

This BBC article about men having better pass rates for driving tests made me laugh. It's like a bait and switch. It starts off implying women are being discriminated against but actually it doesn't give a fuck and shits on them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62093245

Zoomer girl is so woke she goes back to literal 1950s arguments for why she needs special treatment as a woman:

"Also, there should be more consideration on how hormones affect driving.
"Tasks involving co-ordination and dexterity are more difficult when oestrogen is low and this can impact things like driving."

Boomer woman doesn't give a fuck and won't give the BBC the quote they want (she's really only saying that men practice more outside of lessons).

"If I had a choice between teaching a male or female student, I would prefer to teach the male.
"They listen and they will think about what you are saying.
"They will start to do things straight away. With a female, five hours later, you are still coping with the same problem.
"I have found that females want to go for their test before they are ready. With lads, they tend to have more practical experience in a car."

Meanwhile the man knows he has to keep his mouth shut.

"As an instructor, I treat males and females in exactly the same way. I've found it to be the winning formula," he said.
"In my experience, there is no correlation between someone's gender and how likely they are to pass their test."

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

This BBC article about men having better pass rates for driving tests made me laugh. It's like a bait and switch. It starts off implying women are being discriminated against but actually it doesn't give a fuck and shits on them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62093245

Zoomer girl is so woke she goes back to literal 1950s arguments for why she needs special treatment as a woman:


Boomer woman doesn't give a fuck and won't give the BBC the quote they want (she's really only saying that men practice more outside of lessons).


Meanwhile the man knows he has to keep his mouth shut.

I'm disappointed in you for not posting the Welsh name of one of the quote givers to confuse Kiwi Farms.

Elwyn Marfell-Jones

But then there's this article linked to too which is a treat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62083896

A woman who took about 150 theory and practical tests for other drivers has been jailed for eight months.
Inderjeet Kaur, 29, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, admitted taking the tests between 2018 and 2020.
Police said she was taking tests for people who had difficulty with English.
Swansea Crown Court heard suspicion grew at test centres that Kaur was impersonating other people and the police were tipped off.
Kaur took the tests in Swansea, Carmarthen, Birmingham and London.
Det Ch Insp Steven Maloney said Kaur's crimes were motivated by greed.
"Frauds such as these pose significant risks to the general public," he said.

Caroline Hicks of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said fraudulently-gained test passes could be cancelled.
She added: "Driving and theory tests exist to help ensure people have the correct knowledge, skills and attitude to drive on our roads. Circumventing the tests puts lives in danger."

 

[Chaos Theorist]

https://odysee.com/@tommyrobinson:7/hopenothateexposed:d
Babe wake up new Rommy Tominson kino just dropped

 

[Thomas Talus]

It's actually disgusting how calcified British politics is right now. Both sides are essentially just fielding Blair with a twist, it's like you can only buy Coke Lime, or Coke Lemon. I don't want Coke, I want a decent fucking PM!

It's astonishing how effectively the British political system seems to prevent the emergence of anything approaching a likeable and competent individual to vote for on the final ballot. You would think that one or two would slip through the cracks now and again, but the system is just that airtight.

 

[teriyakiburns]

It's astonishing how effectively the British political system seems to prevent the emergence of anything approaching a likeable and competent individual to vote for on the final ballot. You would think that one or two would slip through the cracks now and again, but the system is just that airtight.

Now Bernard, I find it hard to believe that you would persist in professing such folly. The civil service exists for no less than to ensure the smooth transition of power between incoming and outgoing ministers of state, by diligently guiding the process of decision of who is to be the next prime minister toward a state that is at once fair, equitable, and amenable to the continuity of the provision of steady, authoritative, and wise counsel to whomever might be transitioned into the seat of power itself, thus demonstrating the absolutely unshakeable, unassailable foundations of the state are not left vulnerable to the frantic whimsy of momentary passions and arbitrary demands of the easily distracted mass.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Tavistock gender clinic forced to shut over safety fears

The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.The gender identity service at Tavis

www.thetimes.co.uk

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The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.
The gender identity service at Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered to close by next spring.
It will be replaced by regional centres at existing children’s hospitals offering more “holistic care” with “strong links to mental health services”.
Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic has been accused of rushing children into life-altering treatment on puberty blockers.
The paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading a review of the service, issued a series of recommendations today for a radical overhaul of how the NHS treats young people who are questioning their gender identity.

TERF Island strikes again. The Tavistock GIDS (aka the only clinic for underage troonism in the UK), has finally been acknowledged as utter shite and completely not fit for purpose and is being closed down. Recomendations for it's replacement are based on having local services that offer actual mental health support (instead of just unquestioningly pumping everyone full of hormones), and a long term clinical study into the effects of hormones on kids (spoiler alert, it's probably bad)

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Tavistock gender clinic forced to shut over safety fears

The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.The gender identity service at Tavis

www.thetimes.co.uk

Tavistock gender clinic forced to shut over safety fears | News | The…

archived 28 Jul 2022 11:37:41 UTC

archive.ph

TERF Island strikes again. The Tavistock GIDS (aka the only clinic for underage troonism in the UK), has finally been acknowledged as utter shite and completely not fit for purpose and is being closed down. Recomendations for it's replacement are based on having local services that offer actual mental health support (instead of just unquestioningly pumping everyone full of hormones), and a long term clinical study into the effects of hormones on kids (spoiler alert, it's probably bad)

Who didn’t see this coming? I’m sure stonewall will be opening it’s publicly funded wallet to have articles written as we type.

 

[CWCissey]

Who didn’t see this coming? I’m sure stonewall will be opening it’s publicly funded wallet to have articles written as we type.

They'd be stupid to do so. Last Friday their Twatter account posted a pro-kiddy transing tweet and #StonewallOut was trending for a good couple of days.

The British public is sick of their shit.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

They'd be stupid to do so. Last Friday their Twatter account posted a pro-kiddy transing tweet and #StonewallOut was trending for a good couple of days.

The British public is sick of their shit.

Seriously? I missed that one. I'm not surprised mind.

Unfortunately as I said in the thread that was posted to host the article this unfortunately feels like rebranding. Tavistock is in the national consciousness now so they need a way to sink back beneath the radar and splitting it into multiple regions is the way to go. So naturally it's London and the North West one which unites still strong Labour bastion of Manchester and fucking Liverpool, whose council have been up to so much shit they are currently being overseen because they literally cannot be trusted.

Probably be another 10-20 years before it gets revealed they're as bad or worse as the Tavistock since they'll be dosing up a fresh batch of children who will take quite a while to regret and even longer to get a successful case lodged.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

Laughed my arse off at the image of King Arthur getting cancelled by pink-haired communists. It's so true. I'd be crying if the situation was any less dire.

It will literally be that Monty Python scene.

 

[Overly Serious]

Oh also just heard on Radio 4 that we are hosting Eurovision. I knew we would get stuck with the bill after Ukraine won.

I was going to put £500 on Ukraine to win. Hadn't listened to their entry and still haven't. I just knew that they would win. The odds would have got me a couple of hundred quid, I think, but sadly I forgot about placing the bet until I was already home and I never gamble so not really set up to do it online.

This sounds exactly like how Nicola became leader of the opposition in The Thick of It.

When I'm down and the world seems dark, I sometimes just say to myself: "Quiet bat people" and it makes me feel a little better. It's my own personal version of supracalifragilistic.

As opposed to male leaders dragging us into wars which has been the norm for thousands of years? You do realise that the vast majority of wars were not started by female leaders, right?

Hundreds of millions died in the 20th century due to wars, genocides and disastrous political ideologies and I'm fairly certain Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin, et al., were not female.

You have no understanding of statistics. The vast majority of national leaders have been male. You have to do a controlled comparison for it to make sense. I read a study from the University of Chicago (wait - Chicago has a university?) which attempted such a comparison and found that female leaders were more likely to lead their countries to war than male. Of course some spin on it was added suggesting that female leaders had to do this to prove themselves to patriarchal types. Which is wild spin and even if true I hardly think "wanting to look tough" is a good rationale for war.

If Rishi gets in, Labour with be flooded with BNP/EDL types to get a white man in No 10 again.

I don't really know many extreme White Nationalist types any more but of the more nationalist people I do know they (incl. me) actually preferred Kemi Badenoch. Anecdotal, I know.

 

[Coolio55]

I was going to put £500 on Ukraine to win. Hadn't listened to their entry and still haven't. I just knew that they would win. The odds would have got me a couple of hundred quid, I think, but sadly I forgot about placing the bet until I was already home and I never gamble so not really set up to do it online.

I don't really know many extreme White Nationalist types any more but of the more nationalist people I do know they (incl. me) actually preferred Kemi Badenoch. Anecdotal, I know.

Shit! That's easy money I missed. I completely ignore Eurovision at all times because it's mega gay.
Oh well, I'm not a gambler anyway.

Ps. Despite making race jokes every 5 seconds I genuinely wanted Kemi to win

 

[9Style]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1553761455165644801

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

If you're not ready for the Truss Reich,

 

[Free the Pedos]

When I'm down and the world seems dark, I sometimes just say to myself: "Quiet bat people" and it makes me feel a little better. It's my own personal version of supracalifragilistic.

"Honest wombles" for me.
Hopefully we'll get to see her in front of a big sign that says I AM BENT.