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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.

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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If we excuse that pedophile for the statue, can we excuse Saville for being the first DJ to mix two records?
He invented hop-hop. And his work ethic seems to have carried over and to African Americans to this day. Especially when it comes to bumming each other. He was a good catholic in that respect.
 
He invented hop-hop. And his work ethic seems to have carried over and to African Americans to this day. Especially when it comes to bumming each other. He was a good catholic in that respect.
And he paid for half a hospital to be built that still saves kids lives to this day.
 
So it alledgedly according to a few people on talking Labour backbenchers were pissed that Jess Pedodefender announced the cut to the inquiries. On top of this, MPs were telling that they were getting tons of e-mails and messages calling them pedos, etc.

They seem to be revisiting the enquiries.

They're scared.
 
So it alledgedly according to a few people on talking Labour backbenchers were pissed that Jess Pedodefender announced the cut to the inquiries. On top of this, MPs were telling that they were getting tons of e-mails and messages calling them pedos, etc.
No they are not. They suck up to Muslims any chance they get. There are rape gangs wherever there are large numbers of Muslims, so every Labour stronghold, so they are thankful this is getting memory holed.

They’ve emptied the prisons as they are expecting riots again.

Your post expects us to believe good Labour MPs exist when they’ve known this was going on all along and they were complicit with it.

If anyone votes Labour I hope their children get raped by boat monkeys.
 
HMP Frankland in county durham, a maximum security prison, segregates prisoners who refuse to convert to Islam, because the pakis are murdering those who refuse to convert.
They used to segregate the islamic terrorist extremists, now, for ease, they segregate those who won't join the gang.

Whose side are they on? Obviously the islamists.
 
HMP Frankland in county durham, a maximum security prison, segregates prisoners who refuse to convert to Islam, because the pakis are murdering those who refuse to convert.
They used to segregate the islamic terrorist extremists, now, for ease, they segregate those who won't join the gang.

Whose side are they on? Obviously the islamists.
You know they should simply put the Islamists in solitary, no access to an iman no snuff fiction nothing.
 
HMP Frankland in county durham, a maximum security prison, segregates prisoners who refuse to convert to Islam, because the pakis are murdering those who refuse to convert.
They used to segregate the islamic terrorist extremists, now, for ease, they segregate those who won't join the gang.

Whose side are they on? Obviously the islamists.
Shouldn't a prison be a safe place for all inside, with no weapons and security and shit? What kind of a prison cucks to paki gangs?
 
Cabinet Office to shed 2,100 civil servant roles
A government department run by one of Sir Keir Starmer's most senior ministers is cutting almost a third of its jobs as ministers seek to accelerate civil service reform.
Officials at the Cabinet Office - headed by Pat McFadden - are being told today that 2,100 of their 6,500 jobs will be cut or moved to other parts of government over the next two years. Along with other reforms, the Cabinet Office says the cuts will save £110m a year by 2028.
The Cabinet Office supports the prime minister and co-ordinates the work of other departments which have more specific remits.
Civil service union Prospect warned "blunt cuts of this scale" could harm delivery across government.
Of the jobs to go, some 1,200 posts will be lost through voluntary and "mutually-agreed" redundancies or people not being replaced if they leave. A further 900 are being transferred to other government departments in an attempt to avoid duplication of work.
McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is one of Sir Keir Starmer's key lieutenants and the minister responsible for reform of the civil service.
A source said he was "leading by example" with the cuts to his own department.
In recent weeks the government has announced plans to make "radical" reforms to the way the civil service works, including cutting the costs of running government by 15% by the end of the decade.
McFadden wants to introduce performance-related pay for senior staff and new rules under which those failing to meet standards could be sacked if they do not improve within six months.
But he has resisted, in public at least, setting a target for how many civil servants' jobs would be lost.
Today's announcement of the moves at the Cabinet Office suggests that the cuts might go further than some had expected.
A Cabinet Office source told the BBC: "Leading by example, we are creating a leaner and more focused Cabinet Office that will drive work to reshape the state and deliver our Plan for Change.
"This government will target resources at frontline services - with more teachers in classrooms, extra hospital appointments and police back on the beat."
In a call with staff this morning Cat Little, the Cabinet Office's top civil servant, said she wanted the department to be "more strategic, specialist, and smaller".
Since 2016 the number of people employed by the civil service has grown from 384,000 to more than 500,000.
The rise was partly driven by preparations for Brexit and new functions the British state did not have to carry out during EU membership. New officials were also hired to deal with the Covid pandemic.
The Cabinet Office has grown the most of any department proportionally, approximately trebling in size since the EU referendum.
Mike Clancy, the general secretary of the Prospect trade union which represents some civil servants, said: "The Cabinet Office has an important role to play operating the machinery of government, driving efficiency and reform, and ensuring other departments are fully aligned with and able to deliver the government's missions.
"Blunt cuts of this scale will make it harder to play that role and could impact on delivery across government.
"Prospect will engage with the Cabinet Office throughout this process and will seek an assurance that there will be no compulsory redundancies."
Lucille Thirlby, assistant general secretary of the FDA union, also warned that the cuts "will impact the delivery of the government's own agenda".
"Civil servants are desperate for reform and refocusing the work of the Cabinet Office may be a good place to start," she told the BBC.
"However – as we are seeing with the reorganisation of NHS England – there is a difference between reforming and cutting. The success of any reforms will depend on whether the scale of cuts undermine the reform."
She urged ministers to "be honest about what the government will stop doing as a result of these cuts".
Actually a positive, but man, half a million is still too many. Cat Little deserves props for wanting a smaller department.

Government rejects 'buy British' campaign to combat tariffs
Downing Street has declined to officially back a "buy British" campaign in response to Donald Trump's tariffs.
Sir Keir Starmer's spokesman said the UK was "an open-trading nation" and the government was "not going to tell people where they buy their stuff".
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told MPs such a campaign would be "inward looking" and was "not the way forward", in response to Liberal Democrat calls to encourage the public to buy more British goods and produce.
But ministers are reported to be reviewing Whitehall procurement rules to give an advantage to British firms bidding for government contracts.

The government has repeatedly stressed that it will not be rushed into retaliatory measures after the US slapped a 10% import tax on nearly all UK products entering the US, on top of already-announced 25% levies on aluminium, steel and cars.
The PM told a senior group of MPs the government is keeping its options open for retaliating to US tariffs "if necessary" but he did not think the UK should "jump in with both feet".
"I think that trying to negotiate an arrangement which mitigates the tariffs is better," he told the House of Commons Liaison Committee.
During Treasury questions in the Commons, Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper urged the government to show people concerned about the impact on their cost of living that "Britain is not going to take Trump's tariffs lying down".
And she called on the chancellor to get behind her party's campaign for a new "Made in Britain" logo for consumer products backed by an advertising blitz.
Reeves told the Lib Dem MP "ratcheting up barriers to trade, ratcheting up tariffs will not be in our country's interests, whether that's in inflation or indeed for supply chains".
She added: "In terms of buying British, I think everyone will make their own decisions.
"What we don't want to see is a trade war, with Britain becoming inward-looking, because if every country in the world decided that they only wanted to buy things produced in their country, that is not a good way forward."
The prime minister's official spokesman also rejected the "Buy British" campaign but added that the government "is always going to back British producers, British manufacturers".
In response to a call from Tory MP John Hayes to use government procurement to back British jobs and British products, Rachel Reeves said Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden "has set out new reforms to procurement rules to enable just that".
She added: "We want more British businesses to win contracts, we want more small businesses in Britain to win contracts."
In February, the government set out new rules aimed at making it easier for small and medium-sized British companies to bid for government contracts, building on legislation passed by the previous Conservative government.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the government will go further when it unveils its industrial strategy and public spending review later this year.
Major public sector infrastructure projects - such as transport, offshore wind and defence - will be told to "Buy British", the newspaper says.
The chancellor told the Commons US tariffs would continue "to have huge implications for the world economy".
"These implications have been reflected in the reaction that we've seen in global markets in recent days, which the financial authorities have of course been monitoring closely," she said.
"This morning I spoke to the governor of the Bank of England, who has confirmed that markets are functioning effectively and that our banking system is resilient."
She sought to reassure families and businesses concerned about economic turmoil that "we have your backs" and that the government would "act decisively" in the national interest.
She told MPs the government's priority was to secure a trade deal with the US, and that talks with the White House were ongoing.
"A trade war is in nobody's interest. It is why we must remain pragmatic, cool headed, and pursue the best deal with the United States that is in our national interest," she added.
Lim Dems forcing me to side with Labour. Even Badenoch is copying their sentiment. Though the Lib Dems have been weirdly 'pro-British' as of late, at least in the surface level, when it comes to producing and manufacturing — Lib Dem + Reform + Conservative hell coalition incoming 2029

'This is a national evil that requires a national response!' Keir Starmer faces grassroots revolt over grooming gangs
Sir Keir Starmer is facing a grassroots rebellion over his refusal to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.
The Prime Minister has rejected calls for a statutory inquiry into the historical sexual abuse of thousands of children by gangs of men, predominantly of Pakistani heritage.

Blue Labour, a campaign group founded by Lord Glasman, is demanding a nationwide government-backed inquiry with full statutory powers.

On Thursday, Starmer denied that plans for up to five initial local inquiries had been scaled back.
This came after the Government said it would make money available for councils to tackle grooming, but they could use it as they wished.
The Blue Labour group argue that a more comprehensive national response is required to address the scandal.

The group said: "Blue Labour's position on the grooming and rape gangs is unchanged. This is a national evil that requires a national response.
"Local authorities lack the necessary capabilities and legal authority to carry out investigations, and often they are in need of investigation themselves.
"We need a national inquiry with full statutory powers. The decades-long abuse of young girls and its cover-up is a sickness that must be exorcised from the body politic."

Lord Glasman told The Telegraph: "Our position is unchanged. We call for an immediate national inquiry with full powers of arrest. This is an evil that has got to be seen to be public."
Blue Labour is said to have a growing number of supporters on the Labour back benches.
These include Jonathan Hinder, MP for the Red Wall constituency of Pendle and Clitheroe in Lancashire.
Dan Carden, a former ally of Jeremy Corbyn, is another supporter who broke ranks with Starmer in January to call for a full national inquiry into grooming gangs.
The same call for a national inquiry has been made by Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, has also demanded a full national inquiry into grooming gangs.
First thing first: GBnews has an absolutely horrendous website. It's fucking horrible, with the total length of the article in paragraphs taking up less space than the pictures included in the article itself. Almost every headline clickbait and exaggerated to some extent. Still, learning there's at least 8 members of the Labour party who aren't towing the party line is good. 'Blue Labour' are socially conservative Left-wingers in Labour. I can't imagine Glasman will get the ball rolling on the inquiry again since he represents so small a group, but he or one of the other MPs in Blue Labour should at least join Lowe's crowdfunded inquiry (he's got a Reform MP and a Tory MP).
Don't look up Glasman's personal life if you have brain rot, though you probably already know from the name.
 
However, the EU has been around for a shorter amount of time but has done more domestic damage, arguably. They've contributed to fucking us economically with restrictions and regulation (fishing is a well-known example), fucking our energy production (20-20-20 package) but their laws and rulings also impacted how we ran our country and how we could deal with asylum seekers and immigrants. The EU's human rights laws were the primary reason why the (admittedly retarded) Rwanda scheme couldn't take off, since it was considered 'abusive' and thus a violation, and trying to stop immigrants bringing over all their extended family might be considered a violation too. Even after leaving, we're still subject to a lot of their shit and past agreements.
The European Union had no hand in preventing the Rwanda Scheme from going forward. You are mistaking the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which is an international treaty which created an independent judiciary to oversee human rights matters and was codified into law in the UK through the Human Rights Act 1998, with the powers of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The ECHR is entirely independent of the European Union and entirely separate to the CJEU. The UK was one of the first to ratify the ECHR treaty in 1951, long before its membership to the European Union.

The UK may, at any time, withdraw from the ECHR treaty or simply choose to pay the relevant fines to ignore the rulings of the court — much like Russia has often done — as it is simply an international agreement. Asylum seekers rely on Article 3 (prohibition of torture) and Article 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) in their application for Asylum, as shithole countries often torture or kill those against or fleeing the regime. As such, the UK is placed into a position where if they were to deport said Asylum seekers to their country of origin, they would be breaching their prohibition on torture and be therefore breaching the treaty. It is noted that Article 3 is a non-derogable right, meaning it is absolute. This is also the reason why many terrorists and murderers are not deported to their home countries (look into the terrorists in HMP Belmarsh for further information). As such, this is the reason for the asylum crisis.

The EU had a big hand in creating the mess that is the current migration crisis, however, the failure of the Rwanda plan falls squarely on the UK for remaining as a signatory to the ECHR.
 
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The European Union had no hand in preventing the Rwanda Scheme from going forward. You are mistaking the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which is an international treaty which created an independent judiciary to oversee human rights matters and was codified into law in the UK through the Human Rights Act 1998, with the powers of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The ECHR is entirely independent of the European Union and entirely separate to the CJEU. The UK was one of the first to ratify the ECHR treaty in 1951, long before its membership to the European Union.

The UK may, at any time, withdraw from the ECHR treaty or simply choose to pay the relevant fines to ignore the rulings of the court — much like Russia has often done — as it is simply an international agreement. Asylum seekers rely on Article 3 (prohibition of torture) and Article 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) in their application for Asylum, as shithole countries often torture or kill those against or fleeing the regime. As such, the UK is placed into a position where if they were to deport said Asylum seekers to their country of origin, they would be breaching their prohibition on torture and be therefore breaching the treaty. It is noted that Article 3 is a non-derogable right, meaning it is absolute. This is also the reason why many terrorists and murderers are not deported to their home countries (look into the terrorists in HMP Belmarsh for further information). As such, this is the reason for the asylum crisis.

The EU had a big hand in creating the mess that is the current migration crisis, however, the blame of the falls squarely in the UK for remaining as a signatory to the ECHR.
Meanwhile, in the USA:
"Sucks to be you, have fun in CECOT!"
 
The European Union had no hand in preventing the Rwanda Scheme from going forward. You are mistaking the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which is an international treaty which created an independent judiciary to oversee human rights matters and was codified into law in the UK through the Human Rights Act 1998, with the powers of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The ECHR is entirely independent of the European Union and entirely separate to the CJEU. The UK was one of the first to ratify the ECHR treaty in 1951, long before its membership to the European Union.
Ah, my mistake. Thank you for the clarification. Good, informative post.
 
You know they should simply put the Islamists in solitary, no access to an iman no snuff fiction nothing.
Shouldn't a prison be a safe place for all inside, with no weapons and security and shit? What kind of a prison cucks to paki gangs?

The prison has been overrun with paki terror gangs. They outnumber the other prisoners to such a degree that it's logistically easier, and much safer, to just put non-muslims into their own wing, like they do with a 'nonce' wing to protect the poofters.
 
Lim Dems forcing me to side with Labour. Even Badenoch is copying their sentiment. Though the Lib Dems have been weirdly 'pro-British' as of late, at least in the surface level, when it comes to producing and manufacturing — Lib Dem + Reform + Conservative hell coalition incoming 2029
Good luck buying British when we don’t make anything anymore. We needed this campaign forty years ago.
 
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