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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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Given the state of the economy and historic mismanagement from both Labour and the Tories I think any measures to try and course correct will be difficult and make people's lives harder. Any reason to increase political accountability should be taken wherever possible.

FullFact have tabulated the promises of Starmer's government and how they are tracking each objective. Quite useful for remembering what they actually promised to achieve in July.
 
QE65 said:
Given the state of the economy and historic mismanagement from both Labour and the Tories I think any measures to try and course correct will be difficult and make people's lives harder. Any reason to increase political accountability should be taken wherever possible.

FullFact have tabulated the promises of Starmer's government and how they are tracking each objective. Quite useful for remembering what they actually promised to achieve in July.
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You can't trust Factcheckers, look at this shit
"Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance" - Unclear or disputed
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Labour increased employers’ National Insurance contributions in its Autumn 2024 Budget. But as its manifesto failed to offer a clear definition of what its pledge on National Insurance meant, whether the pledge has been kept or broken is unclear and disputed.
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LABOUR FUCKING INCREASED NATIONAL INSURANCE AND THEY WON'T SAY THAT LABOUR BROKE THEIR ELECTION PROMISE​

THEY FUCKING SAID THEY WOULDN'T INCREASE IT AND THEY DID
 
Monopolywheel said:
THEY FUCKING SAID THEY WOULDN'T INCREASE IT AND THEY DID
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Ah but you see, it was only employer NIC, therefore the people will see absolutely no increase.

Raising NIC instead of just just jacking up minimum wage seems like such a stupid idea to me. It's still going to be inflationary yet without the added benefit of people having a bit more money to spend
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
Well, this thread normally has a lot of depressing news about how shit our government is no matter the political party. I wanted to try spark some silly joy for a brief moment. <3
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I’ve had the same metal dualit toaster since we got married. It’s had two replacement elements and a replacement timer and it will probably outlast me. Everything should be repairable if it can be.
 
Otterly said:
I’ve had the same metal dualit toaster since we got married. It’s had two replacement elements and a replacement timer and it will probably outlast me. Everything should be repairable if it can be.
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Sounds like Trigger's broom to me. You should get an award from the Council.....


 
Amin Yasister said:
I have an old school kettle that heats up water my gas cooker hob. Has lasted for four years so far with no sign of giving up. Constructed from metal with a plastic handle, so easily recycled.

No idea how long it will last, but never had an electric kettle that lasted as long
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Rejecting modernity and embracing tradition like a boss.
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Replacing the element in a kettle used to be commonplace.
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I often wonder how much electronics are thrown out because a fuse in the plug goes and people don’t know it can be replaced. I think replacing an element might be beyond most of the population now.
 
kcbbq said:
Treasury minister just quit because corruption.

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Missing from the headline: she was the anti-corruption minister.

Starmer really does know how to pick em, doesn't he? A chancellor who can't do sums, an anti-corruption minister who's hopelessly corrupt, a foreign secretary who is probably the least diplomatic man in existence, a secretary of state for energy security who doesn't understand how energy production works...
 
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Treasury minister just quit because corruption.

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"I must choose an anti-corruption minister. I will choose the granddaughter and niece of two of Bangladesh's authoritarian despotic thieving leaders. I am absolutely fucking certain that nothing in her family background or continued close association with the Awami League, the party of her family, has in any way predisposed her to be a thieving cunt... what do you mean, every house she has ever lived in in the UK was owned by the fucking Awami League, and she's about to be charged by the Banglas for her part in a government land grab in Dhaka of which she, her mother and siblings are all direct beneficiaries!"
 
Coolio55 said:
Let's not be hasty here.
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Cameron and Osborne, for all of their faults as out-of-touch-toffee-nosed-tories and coke-sniffing-possible-rapists, they got the UK back on the straight and narrow financially, years before France, Germany and the Eurozone.

Think back to their austerity in 2012-14, doesn't it feel like a great time to be alive, when everything was cheap? Yet we were recovering from the worst economic disaster in generations, apparently.

With the exception of Truss, not PM has had the balls to lead how they saw fit, regardless of popularity. I dislike Cameron, but I would take his government back in a heartbeat compared to the dross we have had for 30 years.
 
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Cameron and Osborne, for all of their faults as out-of-touch-toffee-nosed-tories and coke-sniffing-possible-rapists, they got the UK back on the straight and narrow financially, years before France, Germany and the Eurozone.

Think back to their austerity in 2012-14, doesn't it feel like a great time to be alive, when everything was cheap? Yet we were recovering from the worst economic disaster in generations, apparently.

With the exception of Truss, not PM has had the balls to lead how they saw fit, regardless of popularity. I dislike Cameron, but I would take his government back in a heartbeat compared to the dross we have had for 30 years.
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Nick Clegg is free to be tea boy again if Cameron ever wants to leave the Lords.
 
AssignedEva said:
Once upon a time, you'd find appliances sold without plugs and you'd have to buy a plug, strip the wires and hook it up yourself. BLue Bottom Left, BRown Bottom Right and stripes to the sky.
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I can remember fitting plugs as a child as a normal thing. If a kid said that now they’d probably have teachers send social services to their house.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Cameron and Osborne

Think back to their austerity in 2012-14, doesn't it feel like a great time to be alive, when everything was cheap? Yet we were recovering from the worst economic disaster in generations, apparently.
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Absolutely hard disagree - there were no jobs during this time period. There were no entry jobs and there were no shit-tier jobs. I would have done anything minimum wage and there was nothing. Getting beaten out by swathes of euros. Had to sign on. It warms my heart when I see 'help wanted' signs in local shops as I would have loved anything like that when I was younger.

Also getting the gift of near 0% interest rates and doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING was retarded.
 
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