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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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Train Operator said:
my guy, they ignore child rape gangs and arrest people for "misgendering" or carrying a Zelda toy. there's already no law or command they wont follow. even if there were bigger scum to replace them they wouldn't be doing anything different.
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Well, that's just it, isn't it? You think they couldn't possibly be worse but I assure you, they can
 
i sincerely hope all britoids will be exercising their right NOT to vote today. voting is one of the gayest most retarded things you can do
 
adam_moche said:
So the British Parliament is sovereign except when it comes to the British Supreme court and Scotland and Wales? Am I misunderstanding? Why is the British Parliament liquidating its own authority?
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Parliament is sovereign. The Supreme Court only came into existence in 2009 as a result of splitting out the functions of the Law Lords (who are part of Parliament) into their own separate body. This is in line with most other countries, that has the judiciary separate from the executive (PM/Cabinet, who plans policy) and the legislature (the Commons and the Lords, who make laws). So for example, Cabinet cannot announce they're going to kill every firstborn son because that's illegal. They also cannot pass a bill saying "killing every firstborn son is legal now", because that's still going to be illegal based on pre-existing laws that it contradicts. So instead they would need to propose amendments to several laws and try and get them passed, except the House of Lords would likely keep pushing it back. That doesn't mean Parliament isn't sovereign, it's just got to interface with a system of checks and balances. If the electorate really wanted everyone's firstborn son killed, Parliament could make it happen - it'd just take quite a few years to filter through the processes.

As for devolution? Devolution exists through an act of Parliament, so Parliament can revoke an act at any time. If they wanted to, they could undo devolution (although again, might not be as simple as a snap of the fingers). Parliament is unable to make laws that prevent Parliament doing something different in future. Even with devolution, a lot of it hinges on the Sewell Convention - basically, Parliament promises that if it has to rule on something that's a devolved competence, it will seek a legislative consent motion. But sometimes it decides it's not going to do that - for example, the Nationality and Borders Bill was argued to be fully reserved but two areas (age assessments by local authorities and requiring that local authorities take late evidence as dubious for modern slavery cases) were argued by Scotland to be devolved matters - "Scotland's participation in the National Referral Mechanism is by choice, and trying to legislate about this is removing devolved competence from Scottish ministers". The actual outcome of this was every ignored Scotland and it got passed into law.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
They're voting against the Tories.
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A large potion of the electorate have never spent an adult year of their life not under a Tory government and think a Labour government will be different. They're yet to realise that manifestos are meaningless and nothing will be all that different under a rad banner than it was under a blue one.
 
Coccxys said:
A large potion of the electorate have never spent an adult year of their life not under a Tory government and think a Labour government will be different. They're yet to realise that manifestos are meaningless and nothing will be all that different under a rad banner than it was under a blue one.
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They’re all going miss the benign neglect of recent Tory governments when the malignant care of Labour kicks in.
 
FedPostalService said:
They’re all going miss the benign neglect of recent Tory governments when the malignant care of Labour kicks in.
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That's just it though, most won't. They'll Stockholm syndrome themselves into believing this is a utopia because the PM has the right colour tie on. As is usually the case a left wing government gets glowing media coverage and the people who vote for them are willing to let a lot of shit go to carry on defending them.

I give it til September, maybe October before the puff pieces hit the media about Starmer saving the NHS even though that's not enough time to change anything in such a behemoth of an organisation.

All the strikes will suddenly stop at least. They're just the unions playing a political game to grind everything to a halt until Labour get in. Once they do the unions will settle for the same deals the Torys were offering and tell their members to get in line or else.

My union sent out an email analysing manifestos against their priorities, it was just a table of tick or cross on if they aligned. The Labour manifesto scored 0, the lib dems 3, reform 5. Then said reform are nasty racists who can't be trusted to deliver any of it so it doesn't count and you should vote Labour.
 
Nah Labour are all in on the Ukraine grift. It's their useful idiots that went full ukie flag pfp (then replaced with with a Palestinian one). If anything they'll go further in than the torys did.

From their manifesto
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Just got done vooting. Ended up going for reform rather than spoiling my ballot. I live in a solid labour urban area. Conservatives wouldn't stand a chance here, and tbh i think the reform manifesto is OK and serves as a decent protest vote showing my displeasure with the mainstream political opinion and pointing towards what I would want.

The area might get some swing to the greens from the young white Liberal students who live in the area. Our flat received 3 x Labour leaflets (1 per person, strangely enough all 3 were different) and 1 hand-dropped communist party - which I had to do a double take on as I was surprised by their gender critical stance. Strangely no green party, which I would've thought would go down well in the area between the white Liberal students and the pro-gaza Muslim population.

I think a big talking point will be the overall numbers for reform even though they won't get many seats - but the mainstream will just hand wave that away by saying only seats matter as a way to judge public desire.

Now on my way into the office in a solidly SJW sector. Fortunately I won't have much desk time so I won't have to engage with people on the election - and ultimately lie and tell them I spoilt my ballot. Also fortunate that tomorrow, most people work from home on a Friday so while I will be in the office, discussion of the result will be limited. Strangely for such an SJW environment, there's been hardly any chatter about the election. I basically just have one slightly older gay guy who I discuss politics with on a more technical level without him just expecting me to say that only Jeremy Corbyn can save the UK.
 
Your based candidates, sir:

Tory:


Reform:
 
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