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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

 

[FedPostalService]

He does have the nonce face doesn’t he? I am once again asking for someone to create a machine learning facial recognition app …

I’ve heard he’s actually a nice bloke when the cameras are off and he’s not doing his character.

Makes me feel guilty pointing out that he looks like he needs his hard drive checked after that. By all means, please do it for me.

Which prominent Labour MPs who screamed "believe all women" about, oh let's say Russel Brand, will not be making social media statements about Dan Norris as swiftly.

I’m having fun in the Russell Brand thread.

 

[>IMPLYING]

"Globalisation is over," says Starmer.

In a meeting with his senior aides, including the chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister said: “Globalisation doesn’t work for a lot of working people. We don’t believe trade wars are the answer. This is a chance to show that there’s a different path.”
A Downing Street official explained his thinking: “Trump has done something that we don’t agree with, but there’s a reason why people are behind him on this. The world has changed, globalisation is over and we are now in a new era. We’ve got to demonstrate that our approach — a more active, more reformist Labour government — can provide the answers for people in every part of this country.”

When a senior figure in the government called the White House on Wednesday morning to find out how bad Donald Trump’s tariffs were going to be for Britain, information was scant. Even Trump’s aides were in the dark about what he would decide.
At 9pm that evening, Sir Keir Starmer sat down in 10 Downing Street and watched the television, just like the rest of us, to discover what the US president had in store. The blanket tariff of 10 per cent on imported British goods was half what Trump slapped on the European Union — but they still wrecked the government’s economic calculations just one week after the spring statement.
“The president thinks he has given a ‘friends and family’ deal to Britain — and in comparison to others, he has. There are American allies who have been whacked by tariffs,” said an official. Less sanguine colleagues wonder: with friends like these, who needs enemies?

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Downing Street and the Treasury say no full-blown impact assessment has been conducted but the tariffs are expected to squelch growth, wipe out Rachel Reeves’s budget “headroom” and lead to thousands of job losses.
“The world is a lot more interconnected than it was the last time there were tariffs like this. But even if we had zero tariffs, US and EU having tariffs against each other is bad for a British economy,” said one of those who has seen the work that has been done. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) calculated the week before that a global 20 per cent tariff would knock one percentage point off GDP.
When Trump had finished speaking, Starmer and his senior aides held a crisis conference call to agree their approach and sign off lines to take for the media in time for the 10 o’clock news. It was a formality. They had already decided, unlike the EU and China, not to react in a confrontational manner.
Reeves assembled her team of senior aides — Katie Martin, Lord Livermore and Ben Nunn — the next morning and outlined her plan. “Rachel has three priorities,” one said. “First is getting a deal [with the Americans to lower the tariffs further].


“The second is: how do you support the sectors which are vulnerable and work out what they need? She has been having lots of meetings and calls over the last few days.” These have focused on farmers and other food producers and the car industry — 10 per cent of Britain’s US exports are cars. There are also concerns about the vulnerability of pharmaceutical firms.
But as a Treasury adviser pointed out: “Frankly, there’s no sector of the economy that it won’t be impacted.”
Thirdly, Reeves is thinking about the implications for the next four or five years and the argument she needs to make to the country. This will be key to the chancellor’s credibility, since she is already expected to have to raise taxes and cut spending further in the autumn budget, due in October.

 

[Otterly]

I’ve heard he’s actually a nice bloke when the cameras are off and he’s not doing his character.

I meant Norris, not Rees-Mogg

 

[Amin Yasister]

To quote from the post by morethanabitfoolish
"Several options are being examined but the plan to include terrorism and serious organised crime in a new national force would give Britain a law enforcement body potentially as wide reaching and powerful as the FBI in the US".

Wasn't SOCA (rebranded as the NCA) set up to be the UK's FBI?

 

[FedPostalService]

I meant Norris, not Rees-Mogg

I am an idiot and I cannot read.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Wasn't SOCA (rebranded as the NCA) set up to be the UK's FBI?

Nothing the British state loves more than duplication effort. Why have one civil service fife, when you can have three?

 

[bluegenius8585]

It's all so tiresome.

I do wonder what background checks do they do on MPs. The ones they seem to select are either dodgy or batshit crazy activists

 

[FedPostalService]

I've said this before but I've had to declare all my investments, pensions, bank accounts, credit cards, under go a credit check, a criminal record check, and have 7 years of my employment checked to say I wasn't telling fibs on my CV. Certain projects I have to do enhanced checks again if it's been a couple of years. I am an excel jockey. I am nothing too special.

How am I having to do this for work and not an MP?

They've been that way since the 1970s, when several Labour MPs including Harriet Harman and Jack Dowsey were openly endorsing the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) when she was a member of a civil liberties group.

Only Labour could make a PIE that no Northerner world want to touch.

Say yes to pastry and say no to noncery.

 

[Help I'm A BritFag]

Well that probably explains why Labour will never look into the grooming gangs. Turns out most of Labours pro nonce

They've been that way since the 1970s, when several Labour MPs including Harriet Harman and Jack Dowsey were openly endorsing the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) when she was a member of a civil liberties group.

 

[BongoMongo]

They've been that way since the 1970s, when several Labour MPs including Harriet Harman and Jack Dowsey were openly endorsing the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) when she was a member of a civil liberties group.

And let's not forget,Pedo Tatchell was nuts deep in PIE too (as well as 14 year old boys).

Every facet of British Institutions, irrespective of political bent, is absolutely rammed with faggots and pedophiles. And faggots and pedos look after their own.

 

[ThrobbingWalloper]

Britain has a long history of bumming small boys at boarding school as some sort of rite of passage. These same boys go on to become our politicians and judges etc.

Tatchell is a beast, that so many pride orgs invite him to speak is a sure sign they're all nonces.

 

[Otterly]

I've said this before but I've had to declare all my investments, pensions, bank accounts, credit cards, under go a credit check, a criminal record check, and have 7 years of my employment checked to say I wasn't telling fibs on my CV. Certain projects I have to do enhanced checks again if it's been a couple of years. I am an excel jockey. I am nothing too special.

How am I having to do this for work and not an MP?

For my job, which is mid level at best, I had to go through a checking process that took weeks. Had to give copies of all qualifications, full employment check back to last bloody century, and sign NDAs for every client I work with. There’s a long list of things I am not allowed to do, work for, say or invest in and there are criminal penalties for breaching the financial rules (and I have stuck to them as well, despite having knowledge that could have made me a fair amount of money via insider trading.) I knew about fucking ozempic for fucks sake. I will continue to stick to the rules because I’m an honest person and don’t fancy being jailed for insider trading either.
And I look at how incredibly well the portfolios of those in power do, and I think Very Bad Thoughts. One rule for one, and one for the other.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Shamelessly repooosting this here;

Social media IBS is now UK state policy, thank Catholic Jesus nool blocked bri'ish IPs when he did; can you image the horror of official state ordained UK gov Kiwi Farms accounts?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/social-media/article/reddit-new-election-battleground-zqgh3n73k/https://archive.is/qcVfu

Gov plebbit accounts are now a thing, they already had a TikTok but that was explicitly just for the Labour Party and not an official state backed thing, our taxes are now being paid to some fucking Indian to use ChatGPT to tell him which puff pieces to repost.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

Some more info about rapey Dan Norris in this LinkedIn post from the same journalist I linked earlier. I didn't know he was already facing legal action for his time at The League Against Cruel Sports for bullying and harassment. This, on top of the claims from his time at WECA, make him out to generally be a very nasty man in general.

 

[bluegenius8585]

Britain has a long history of bumming small boys at boarding school as some sort of rite of passage. These same boys go on to become our politicians and judges etc.

Tatchell is a beast, that so many pride orgs invite him to speak is a sure sign they're all nonces.

I honestly don't get how he gets away with it.

It would be like a US org inviting a member of NAMBLA

 

[FedPostalService]

I honestly don't get how he gets away with it.

It would be like a US org inviting a member of NAMBLA

If you can take enough of the establishment with you then they’re not going to investigate you very closely.

A guy bangs a 13 year old girl we all want strung up from the nearest lamppost.

Condemning a man sodominsing a 13 year old boy will have Guardian columnists accusing you of LGBT genocide.

 

[Overly Serious]

He does have the nonce face doesn’t he? I am once again asking for someone to create a machine learning facial recognition app …

I can do that. If you can get me a large number of face photographs of nonces and non-nonces tagged for which is which. One difficulty would be that the non-nonces would include nonces that simply haven't been found out yet, however. So you're not comparing two distinct groups you're comparing two groups where one has a higher quantity than the other.

Still, I could train the model for you. I wonder under which law the UK govt would arrest me for doing so?

 

[Otterly]

If you can get me a large number of face photographs of nonces and non-nonces tagged for which is which.

Sir, this is KiwiFarms … pick a thread .
lol, you’d definitely get gulagged for it. I reckon it’s possible though.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I wonder under which law the UK govt would arrest me for doing so?

Publishing private information about MPs?

 

[Overly Serious]

Sir, this is KiwiFarms … pick a thread .

lol, you’d definitely get gulagged for it. I reckon it’s possible though.

I don't know. You'd get a lot of false positives at minimum because even if there is an underlying biological cause, there's certainly a known correlation with abuse meaning a lot of potential ones without it having manifested. Unless your purpose is just general eugenics or pro-active investigation of possible suspects. Do we think that's higher or lower on the police priority list than arresting people who complain about their kid's school?

Publishing private information about MPs?

*snrk*