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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.

 

[Vesperus]

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Exposed: Listen to the astonishing radio message that PROVES France is giving life jackets to illegal Channel migrants
Communications between Border Force officials and the French Navy have been exposed - with the officials arranging a 'return' of the migrant life jackets to the French
The French Navy have been requesting for UK Border Force to return life jackets which were loaned to illegal migrants crossing the Channel, shock new audio has revealed.
In a new audio recording, communications between Border Force officials and the French Navy have been exposed - with the officials arranging a "return" of the migrant life jackets to the French.
Calling to a French warship, Border Force's Typhoon tells the officials: "We can arrange to return your life jackets. Can you confirm how many are on board?"
As the French Navy confirm 34 migrants are on board, they claim they will "be able to give them life jackets".
The communications continue, as Border Force declares that "once everyone is on board", they will "return the life jackets" to the French - "either by our rib or by yours".
The French Navy also confirmed that the life jackets given to the migrants were "all theirs", as they made the crossing to Britain.
The Border Force representative then responded: "That’s all understood. I’ll make contact when complete rescue to return the life jackets."
The French thanked the Border Force for their cooperation in the operation, closing the conversation: "Thank you for your corporation."
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Britain is continuing to see record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel from France, a new data revealed a record 7,000 small boat migrants have arrived so far this year.
In a recent GB News investigation, a total of 428 Channel migrants were counted as they were brought to the Border Force migrant processing centre at Dover harbour throughout the day.
The latest arrivals documented by the People's Channel takes the total number of migrants who have made the illegal journey this year to more than 7,200.
The current figure for this year is now 33 per cent higher than the 5,435 who crossed from France at the same point last year.
Discussing the audio on GB News, Home and Security Editor Mark White said that migrants who "refuse to wear life jackets" when making the journey across the Channel "will get one anyway from the French".
He asked: "In giving them life jackets, are you actually enabling more migrants to think that they can embark on the journey?"
In a further blow to the Labour Government, Home Office data also revealed that just five people have been convicted of piloting small boats across the English Channel this year.
In a statement, a Home Office spokesman said: "Since January 1 2025, CFI Immigration Enforcement have convicted 17 individuals for piloting a small boat, including five who committed the offence in 2025. In 2024, 64 individuals were convicted."

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[Mound Dweller]

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Exposed: Listen to the astonishing radio message that PROVES France is giving life jackets to illegal Channel migrants

At what point does it officially become a border raid? Surely being state sponsored aided enabled and abetted qualifies the border force to do their fucking jobs for once. That and nevermind running out of money (that shit is all fake made up numbers anyway) the way this is going we're gonna run out of hotels to stick them in.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

The Rwanda scheme

I'm glad you posted this. I misremembered it was rwanda, i thought it was Nigeria, and google/chatgpt searches were saying it wasn't a thing. I thought i was crazy for a bit. 700 million spent and only 4 people voluntarily left the uk lol.

The arguments against the strikes and who is in the right/are they just being greedy etc is all very secondary IMO: the issue at play is a Union that actually does it fucking job and goes on strike and can hold the (local) gov over a barrel because The Workers (tm) have power, this is the sort of thing utterly alien to merimutts which is why we see them lol/lmaoing at the mere prospect of it in the Article thread.
Don't get me wrong; Unions can be shits and are glorified cartel guilds half the time but they fulfil an important channel of revolutionary action and all true Britons should be proud of this power we have, one of the few left.

How'd that work out for British Leyland?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

You mean rodents of unusual size? I'm quite sure they're a myth.

Believe it or not, they're real. Bradford was infested with them 10-15 years ago and they do grow to the size of cats. If you read "rat is 6/9/12ft long" it's because they include the tail length.

 

[BongoMongo]

The arguments against the strikes and who is in the right/are they just being greedy etc is all very secondary IMO: the issue at play is a Union that actually does it fucking job and goes on strike and can hold the (local) gov over a barrel because The Workers (tm) have power, this is the sort of thing utterly alien to merimutts which is why we see them lol/lmaoing at the mere prospect of it in the Article thread.
Don't get me wrong; Unions can be shits and are glorified cartel guilds half the time but they fulfil an important channel of revolutionary action and all true Britons should be proud of this power we have, one of the few left.

Yeah I'm mighty fucking happy the faggots got cosy with the miners and that led to the eventual scrapping of Section 28.

It's fucking wonderful a bunch of cunts can promote legalising degeneracy because they want it. It's fucking wonderful.

Absolutely sarcasm in case you'd not cottoned on. It's fundamentally wrong that they can do what they want and if the tories wielded that level of power people would rightly be fuming but because it's labour it's all okay I guess.

I don't care the binmen in Birmingham could lose money. This is precisely what they were told would happen if women doing nice easy jobs pushed and pushed for "equal". They were told and warned and pursued this anyway. Here we are, suck up the consequences of your actions.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Happy Monday.

Jim Davidson has made claims that Starmer is going through a divorce, initiated by his (ex?) wife and that CCTV footage exists of Starmer getting bummed by Lord Ali.

INB4 RIP Jim Davidson.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

Army planners sent in to help clear Birmingham’s rubbish piles​

(they are not gonna pick the trash though, what a joke- "This will involve some of the military’s office-based planners being called in to provide logistical and administrative assistance for a short period. It will not involve deployed soldiers collecting bins.")

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/13/army-planners-sent-in-to-help-clear-birminghams-rubbish

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Government calls in military experts as month-long refuse workers’ strike brings warnings of public health emergency

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Office-based military specialists have been called in to deal with the mounting piles of rubbish on the streets of Birmingham after a month-long strike by refuse workers.

Tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish have gone uncollected and Birmingham city council has declared a major incident and issued a public health warning since the all-out-strike by Unite union members began on 11 March.


The council had already appealed to neighbouring authorities for assistance but the government has now asked for help from the British army in tackling the crisis.

This will involve some of the military’s office-based planners being called in to provide logistical and administrative assistance for a short period. It will not involve deployed soldiers collecting bins.


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A government spokesperson said: “The government has already provided a number of staff to support the council with logistics and make sure the response on the ground is swift to address the associated public health risks.

“In light of the ongoing public health risk, a small number of office-based military personnel with operational planning expertise have been made available to Birmingham city council to further support in this area.

“This builds on a range of measures we’ve supported the council on to date – including neighbouring authorities providing additional vehicles and crews, and opening household waste centres to Birmingham residents.”

More than 17,000 tonnes of rubbish has piled up in the streets since the industrial action started intermittently in January and progressed to an all-out strike in March.

The dispute is over plans to scrap the higher-paid waste recycling and collection officer role from council fleets, which the council claims risks creating a “huge future equal-pay liability”.

Last week Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, urged members of the Unite union to accept an “improved” deal, while the health secretary, Wes Streeting, said the strike had “escalated way out of hand”.

The union’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, has condemned the “constant attacks and briefings against these low-paid bin workers”, claiming that the long-running dispute was adding further strains between the Labour party and Unite.

“It is important to reiterate the truth, as opposed to the lies being peddled in an attempt to distract,” she said.

“This dispute is not about greed or increased pay. This dispute is about workers losing up to £8,000 of their pay – which for some is almost a quarter.”

Graham added that a partial deal on pay protection for some workers had already been agreed and urged the council to accept a wider offer the union had put forward.

The council says only 17 workers will be affected, and they stand to lose much less than Unite has claimed.

A further ballot on a deal to end the strike is expected to take place on Monday.

 

[BongoMongo]

Happy Monday.

Jim Davidson has made claims that Starmer is going through a divorce, initiated by his (ex?) wife and that CCTV footage exists of Starmer getting bummed by Lord Ali.

INB4 RIP Jim Davidson.

Dude that was like 2 months back and any CCTV footage has been memory holed.

 

[Overly Serious]

Believe it or not, they're real. Bradford was infested with them 10-15 years ago and they do grow to the size of cats. If you read "rat is 6/9/12ft long" it's because they include the tail length.

Spoiler: Pictures of giant rats found in the UK. Musophobia warning

Spoiler: Warning. REALLY big rat

 

[Vesperus]

This will involve some of the military’s office-based planners being called in to provide logistical and administrative assistance for a short period.

So... They're going to point at the rubbish, say "You can't leave that there, mate," then amble off to Greggs for a Cornish pasty and a cup of racism?

 

[BongoMongo]

Spoiler: Pictures of giant rats found in the UK. Musophobia warning

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That last one was just gratuitous. No need for that before I've digested my breakfast.

 

[Overly Serious]

My point is he was banging my best friends sister around the time he was doing that show in Jersey and driving a lexus.

You move in more rarefied social circles than I do!

Double posting because they haven't lifted (wheelie) bins since the early 90s

Well they can't, really. Back in the day I still remember when the normal bin was this, only with a black, hardened rubber lid and way more grubby.

Now our bins are these things with like three times the capacity:


And that enables councils to run bin collections less often and requires more specialised trucks with the lifting hooks.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Live rats jump out of bins at them every day.

Not me, not for forty grand, not for all the tea in China neither. Live fucking rats.

It'll be coming to you soon. No matter how gated a community you occupy once the bins stop being collected the rats will be on their way in.

As a suggestion the best way to deal with them is poison. Old ice cream tubs with a few holes carved in are good things to put the poison in, the rats will crawl in and eat their fill then head off for the next customer to replace them. Every so often you will have dead rats in there at which point I will strongly recommend incineration and replacing the tub. With certain exceptions.

That last one was just gratuitous. No need for that before I've digested my breakfast.

Like that one. Poison's too good for them. Just the incineration.

 

[Monopolywheel]

Reform is edging toward removing Yusef.

wait are they? This is the first I'm hearing about it.

 

[FedPostalService]

Ten years ago, I had another five or so roles in my teams to make things run smoothly. It’s been stripped back and replaced with ‘systems’ and ‘pools of dedicated support’ which means three hours a week from someone in India who will range from very helpful but has only three hours a week to utterly useless and takes more than three hours a week to fix what they fuck up.’
The last four years or so they’ve gotten rid of all the admin support and of course still gotta cut cut cut so they’ve gone for technical roles as well. And of course NONE of this work can be done easily by low paid people who see the project for three hours a week. It used to take months of training and familiarisation.
All that’s happened is the workload on everyone else has increased to insane levels and people are burning out in numbers I’ve never seen before. Quality of delivery is down the pan, and people’s health is destroyed by stress.
There’s a reason they have three to a lorry. Let them keep it. We cannot keep cutting everything to the bone because it’s technically possibly under optimal conditions. It’s inhuman.
I’m sick of being an economic unit, I’m a human being with feelings, and I want my job to be doable with the resources I have

A lot of big firms are absolutely fucking themselves as they seem to have eliminated entry level positions.

It’s not like the pay and conditions are much better than the big regional firms either.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

So... They're going to point at the rubbish, say "You can't leave that there, mate," then amble off to Greggs for a Cornish pasty and a cup of racism?

oi m8, trying to clean the rubbish bin yarself is a capital offense under the kings order, gov'nor, into the clink you go

 

[BongoMongo]

I'm currently a mobile fag so can't archive this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14554107/Britains-asylum-seeker-sanctuaries.html

Please would someone kindly do the needful? This struck me as it's a psyop piece clearly drawn up by the Governments nudge unit that was on the DM website.

"Citizens! The "refugees" and "asylum seekers" are your FRIENDS!! Welcome them!!"

Hope every single one of the 77th has their daughters raped to death by a paki.

 

[A-Logato]

"Citizens! The "refugees" and "asylum seekers" are your FRIENDS!! Welcome them!!"

We were never asked, we voted against this every election and we would never get the same privileges as they do in their home countries.

Also I do find some humour in the fact that most of these asylum seeker sanctuaries are most dense in London and West Yorkshire.

 

[BongoMongo]

We were never asked, we voted against this every election and we would never get the same privileges as they do in their home countries.

Also I do find some humour in the fact that most of these asylum seeker sanctuaries are most dense in London and West Yorkshire.

Brighton doesn't shock me. Faggots despise societal cohesion and normality.

The faggots should be on there with the pakis, mudslimes and nogs to go up against the wall. Homosexuality is abnormal and degenerate and the fact that Afghan Muslims practice homosexual pedophilia tells you everything you need to know about Muslims, faggots and pedos.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

People living in Brighton and other lefty southern cities love migrants because like @A-Logato says, they all get shipped up north so southerners don't get to experience the high immigration levels so much. If they got to experience the full force of diversity outside of some nice ethnic food places perhaps they would not be so welcoming.