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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.
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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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Bog-standard Poster said:
I'm assuming the window was open, unless the tin was made of lead?
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You are wise to seek further detail. If you don’t get the facts, you don’t solve crime.


An open tin of beans was thrown through an open house window in a bizzare attack in Cubbington.
Police are asking for information about the incident that happened between 3.15-6pm on Saturday August 19 in Boddington Close.
Warwickshire Police said: "Unknown offender(s) threw an open tin of baked beans through an open ground floor window belonging to a residential property in Boddington Close, Cubbington.
"If you have information, please call Warwick Rural East SNT on the below details and quote incident: 77 of 20-AUG-2023. Alternatively call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”
 
Labour rules out wealth tax if party wins next election (a)

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out any version of a wealth tax on the richest in society should Labour win the next general election.

She told the Sunday Telegraph extra money for public services would have to come from economic growth.

Ms Reeves confirmed Labour would not target expensive houses, increase capital gains tax or put up the top rate of income tax.

"I don't see the way to prosperity as being through taxation," she said.

The shadow chancellor told the newspaper Labour would instead do "whatever it takes" to attract business investment into the UK.

The interview comes as Labour steps up efforts to demonstrate it can be trusted with the economy - and further distance itself from the policies of former leader Jeremy Corbyn - ahead of an election that is expected next year.

Ms Reeves also told the Sunday Telegraph her preparations for government include "spending an awful lot of time with businesses".

Labour says it has it has attracted a surge of interest from businesses at its key party conference, which takes place in October. The party said the number of attendees at its business forum has gone up by 50% in a year.

The party's leadership has been insisting for some time that it will not make unfunded spending commitments.

But the left has said Labour should instead raise taxes, rather than lower its sights - and left-wing campaign group Momentum described the latest move as "shameful".

The group said in a post on X, formerly Twitter: "Wealth taxes are hugely popular. This is a Labour Leadership in hock to corporate interests."

Labour's strategists are content to provoke the ire of the left, partly as a way to emphasise how far the party has changed since the Corbyn era.

But they are also trying to insulate Labour from anticipated Conservative attacks at the next election.

By explicitly ruling out tax options, they believe this will blunt Tory warnings of a Labour tax bombshell to come.

The Conservatives, though, have accused Labour of taking people for fools, arguing that even the party's existing policies would push taxes up.

Meanwhile, Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds defended Labour's decision to rule out a wealth tax, telling BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme the party wanted to be "very careful with tax policy".

Ms Dodds said Labour wanted to avoid what she said was "economic chaos" under the Conservatives, "particularly following the mini-budget" under Liz Truss. She said Labour wanted to "rebuild" investors' confidence in the UK economy.

Ms Dodds also said Labour would make "different choices from the Conservatives", highlighting the party's plans to raise funds by replacing the so-called "non-dom" taxpayer status and ending the charitable status of private schools.
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Alternative headline: Labour rules out taxing its biggest donors.
 
teriyakiburns said:
If I were to guess, it's either an attack on immigrants, or it's old sectarian tensions rising up again. Depends how close it is to the six counties.
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I admit it is in poor taste, but I find it hilarious that the moment Ireland got its independence, it immediately started going full globalist, being a walk-in tax haven and taking their 'share' of refugees, regardless of what their voters want.

Just as with our own elite, it turns out even the Irish elite hate their own.
 
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