UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

  • 🔧 Issue with uploading attachments resolved.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs
2764.png


7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See spread happiness's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See pg often's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Click to expand...
730604


The chemicals I'd be using would be aerosol irritants, so I could laugh at exceptionals tied to lampposts and glued to benches, screaming as the capsicum inflames their mucous membranes. I might consider using DMSO and LSD or ecstasy, though. Or maybe DMSO and PCP. Still up in the air on what would be funniest.
 
www.bbc.co.uk

Journalist shot dead during Derry rioting

Dissident republicans are being blamed for killing 29-year-old Lyra McKee during rioting in the city.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

A journalist has been shot dead during violence in Londonderry that police are treating as a "terrorist incident".

Dissident republicans are being blamed for killing 29-year-old Lyra McKee during rioting after police searches in Derry's Creggan area on Thursday night.

Petrol bombs were also thrown at police Land Rovers.

Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said the New IRA "are likely to be the ones behind this" and detectives have started a murder inquiry.

p076ykzb.jpg



Media captionLyra McKee's murder was a horrendous act, says PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton
He said that a gunman fired shots towards police at about 23:00 BST and Ms McKee, who was standing near a police vehicle, was wounded.

"She was taken away from the scene in a police Land Rover to Altnagelvin Hospital but unfortunately she has died," said Mr Hamilton.

Skip Twitter post by @NaomiOhReally
View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter

Naomi O'Leary

✔@NaomiOhReally
https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1119078406572793857

A journalist has been killed covering riots in Derry. Her name was Lyra McKee. She was 29. She recently signed a two-book deal with Faber, who called her a "rising star of investigative journalism". This is her last tweet, sent from the scene of the unrest.

2,776
4:20 AM - Apr 19, 2019
Click to expand...

2,530 people are talking about this

Twitter Ads info and privacy


Report
End of Twitter post by @NaomiOhReally
Presentational white space

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said Ms McKee was "one of the most promising journalists" in Northern Ireland.

She was a journalist of "courage, style and integrity" and a "woman of great commitment and passion", said the union's assistant general secretary Séamus Dooley.

"I have no doubt that it was that commitment which led to her presence on the streets of the Creggan last night, observing a riot situation in the city."

Presentational white space
Analysis by Julian O'Neill, BBC News NI home affairs correspondent
Dissident republican activity has been increasing of late, with police in Northern Ireland fearful of a spate of violent incidents marking the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

An intelligence-led operation took them into Londonderry's Creggan estate late on Thursday night in a hunt for weapons and ammunition.

They were concerned they could be used in the days ahead to attack officers.

The group blamed for killing Lyra McKee is known as the New IRA and was behind a bomb attack outside the city's courthouse at the start of the year.

Read more: Dissidents had shown violent intentions

Presentational white space

The violence broke out after police raids on houses in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas in Derry.

"Violent dissident republicans are planning attacks in this city and we were carrying out a search operation in Creggan," said Mr Hamilton.

p076y1m3.jpg



Media captionIt is understood police were attacked after carrying out searches in the Creggan area of Londonderry. Footage courtesy of Leona O'Neill
Rioting began at Fanad Drive in the city and more than 50 petrol bombs were thrown at police and two vehicles hijacked and set on fire.

"I believe that this was orchestrated - orchestrated to a point that they just want to have violence and attack police," said Mr Hamilton.

"Bringing a firearm out is a calculated and callous act."

A burning car during the violence in Londonderry
Image copyrightPA
One reporter who was at the scene said a gunman "came round the corner and fired shots indiscriminately towards police vehicles".

"There were a number of houses with families - they had all spilled out on the street to see what was happening," added Leona O'Neill.

"There were young people, there were children on the street, there were teenagers milling about and a gunman just fired indiscriminately up the street."

Skip Twitter post by @LeonaONeill1
View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter

Leona O'Neill@LeonaONeill1
https://twitter.com/LeonaONeill1/status/1119027003854868481

I was standing beside this young woman when she fell beside a police Land Rover tonight in Creggan #Derry. I called an ambulance for her but police put her in the back of their vehicle and rushed her to hospital where she died. Just 29 years old. Sick to my stomach tonight

2,449
12:56 AM - Apr 19, 2019
Click to expand...

1,381 people are talking about this

Twitter Ads info and privacy


Report
End of Twitter post by @LeonaONeill1
Presentational white space

Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley said the "intolerable actions" of those behind Ms McKee's murder were "rejected by the overwhelming majority of people who want to build a peaceful and more prosperous future for everyone in Northern Ireland".

Archbishop Eamon Martin, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, tweeted to ask for people to pray for Ms McKee's family.

Skip Twitter post by @ArchbishopEamon
View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter

Eamon Martin

✔@ArchbishopEamon
https://twitter.com/ArchbishopEamon/status/1119129180547903488

On #GoodFriday morn, 21 yrs after our historic peace accord, we wake up to shocking news of pointless, violent death on the streets of #Derry. Please pray for her family, friends and colleagues today who must now carry such a heavy cross of grief and pain. Rest in peace.

252
7:42 AM - Apr 19, 2019
Click to expand...

121 people are talking about this

Twitter Ads info and privacy


Report
End of Twitter post by @ArchbishopEamon
Sinn Féin's vice-president Michelle O'Neill said she was "shocked and saddened at the tragic news", adding: "I unreservedly condemn those responsible for killing this young woman."

DUP leader Arlene Foster tweeted: "Heartbreaking news. A senseless act. A family has been torn apart."

The SDLP's Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan tweeted: "Just leaving Creggan, heartbroken and angry at the senseless loss of a young life.

"Violence only creates victims, that's all it ever has done. The thoughts and prayers of our city are with the young woman's family and friends, may she rest in peace."
Click to expand...

Looks like Norn Iron is getting spicy again! Obviously the 'Ra are fans of Derry Girls and would like a spin off set in the modern day.
 
There are too many three letter acronym groups out there. Yesterday, I thought the mueller report was talking about the Irish Republican Army. Today, I thought the Internet Research Agency shot someone.

Help
 
LordKaT said:
There are too many three letter acronym groups out there. Yesterday, I thought the mueller report was talking about the Irish Republican Army. Today, I thought the Internet Research Agency shot someone.

Help
Click to expand...
I keep thinking it's Ira Glass, placidly fucking shit up around the world.

Edit: imagine naming a city Londonderry. I looked into it and apparently it used to just be called Derry but the king renamed it because his mates helped build it. No wonder the Irish are pissed.
 
Last edited:
LordKaT said:
There are too many three letter acronym groups out there. Yesterday, I thought the mueller report was talking about the Irish Republican Army. Today, I thought the Internet Research Agency shot someone.

Help
Click to expand...
At this point it's less of an alphabet soup and more of an explosion at an alphabet soup factory.
 
Unfortunate timing...

The Lost Boys by Lyra McKee due for release in 2020 - http://www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk/lyra-mckee/lost-boys

The Lost Boys is a book about the Troubles, and about Belfast over the last fifty years, which orbits the stories of eight boys disappearances, with a focus on the case of Thomas Spence and John Rodgers, aged 11 and 13, who vanished at a bus stop near the Falls Road in West Belfast in November 1974.

When you lost someone in the Troubles, you had a story you could tell. There was a beginning, a middle, and an end. He lived, she died – because he was Catholic, Protestant, in the IRA, in the police, in a Loyalist gang – and we miss her, every day. Beginning, middle, end.

With the boys, though, there was only the beginning of a story. They got up. They left home for school. They went to the bus stop. The bus came. They weren’t there. They never came home.”

Eight boys went missing in Belfast between 1969 and 1975. These weren’t victims of the IRA or the UVF; they weren’t “disappeared” by the paramilitaries. These boys belong to a different category. They were indirect victims of the armed struggle, the people who vanish and are never found during a war, because the police and the judicial service have other priorities.

The Lost Boys is a book about the Troubles, and about Belfast over the last fifty years, which orbits the stories of these disappearances, with a focus on the case of Thomas Spence and John Rodgers, aged 11 and 13, who vanished at a bus stop near the Falls Road in West Belfast in November 1974. The author, Lyra McKee, has a theory about what happened to them. Lyra is a 27-year-old investigative journalist who grew up on Belfast’s Cliftonville Road, just off the infamous Murder Mile, the area which saw more casualties per square foot than any other part of the city during the Troubles. Lyra is fascinated by the recent history of the city; her focus as a journalist is the indirect ways the violence of war plays out, through its secondary waves of victims, and through the way trauma is passed on to subsequent generations. Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland and Andy O’Hagan’s The Missing, The Lost Boys will be an investigation, but also a portrait of a place; of Belfast and of the Troubles, at the first moment in time where it’s become possible to write about them historically (as well as, alas, a moment where tensions are rising once again).
 
Eh in a few more generations it won't even matter. Ahmed or Oogaaboogaa from the Congo won't give a shit what country the strip of land they inhabit belongs to as long as the gibs keep flowing.
 
731177


:story:

I thought they said they were going to bring the place to a standstill?

Clearly they didn't want to give up their long weekends away? Either that, or they realised (:optimistic: I know) that bravely being nicked for being exceptional in public doesn't get you sufficient heroism points for Araminta and Laetitia in your classes at SOAS to welcome you with open arms and legs.

EDIT: The Grauniad's coverage. How art they stereotypical, let me count the ways.

EDIT EDIT: Oh, this is the gift that keeps on giving.

731180


For explanation, it is true that Emma Thompson emitted more kilos of CO2 to get here than your average normie emits in a week by flying in from LA just to virtue signal. However Titania McGrath is a parody of Woke Twitter and is well known as same. Looks like egg, and the Grauniad's face, are in alignment.
 
Last edited:
Imagine having so many resources and all you can pull off is a slightly more advanced Jo Cox. (Points for the cars but they got a waaay bigger literally who. At least cox was an mp.)
 
Ginger Piglet said:
View attachment 731177

:story:

I thought they said they were going to bring the place to a standstill?

Clearly they didn't want to give up their long weekends away? Either that, or they realised (:optimistic: I know) that bravely being nicked for being exceptional in public doesn't get you sufficient heroism points for Araminta and Laetitia in your classes at SOAS to welcome you with open arms and legs.

EDIT: The Grauniad's coverage. How art they stereotypical, let me count the ways.

EDIT EDIT: Oh, this is the gift that keeps on giving.

View attachment 731180

For explanation, it is true that Emma Thompson emitted more kilos of CO2 to get here than your average normie emits in a week by flying in from LA just to virtue signal. However Titania McGrath is a parody of Woke Twitter and is well known as same. Looks like egg, and the Grauniad's face, are in alignment.
Click to expand...

People defending Emma Thompson because she's a celebrity with the right opinion (the Bors comic being thrown out alot too, because you don't need to do anything until other people start doing it). She didn't fucking need to fly in. She could have expressed support with a tweet or a video or doing a protest in LA. The whole fucking point of this movement is we all need to make changes to our ways of living to combat climate change, and not for the first time she's big on words but little on action. She's the poster girl of the reason people are sick of activist celebrities - not because they have opinions, but because they're totally unwilling to commit anything to the causes they claim to support.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom