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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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Made In Wales said:
It's him as PM or Starmer/another Woke entity.

It's not as if we have a choice, there is no alternative on the Right.

Badenoch? - Hahahaha!

Simon/Golding (Britain First) - Too small, might get one or two seats next GE (Tamworth, possibly Telford as well)

Laurence Fox - Nope.

David Kurten - Nope.

Nick Tenconi (UKIP) - UKIP had their moment, I voted for them back in the 2010s, but they are too small/fringe now to be considered as mainstream anymore.

John Tyndall (BNP) - After Nick Griffin, they ceased to matter in any way,

Tony Martin (National Front) - Nope, too far right for some.

William Clouston (SDP) - Too niche a party.
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Jenrick is also a viable contender, Civnat Jew-convert he is (look it up). He could replace Badenoch. Not in time for a snap election if it's called this year but maybe next year.
 
I know I predicted Starmer/Labour would be in a full-blown crisis this month, but I didn't think it would be this. We might be looking at the disappearance of both Labour and the Tories as viable parties by 2030, with Reform (or a non-farage-helmed splinter) and the Lib Dems making up the new major parties.
 
There will not be any general election until 2029. There is no reason for Labour to call one and no mechanism to force one.

What the alternatives look like at that point is entirely guesswork.
 
teriyakiburns said:
We might be looking at the disappearance of both Labour and the Tories as viable parties by 2030
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Current itineration of the uniparty is DEAD and BURIED.
They might scrape off it's skin to wear (Conservative Reform and Unionist Party?) but this is a solid death knell ala the fate of the Canuckistan tories or our very own Liberals last century. Labour will still be around but they're gonna schism over this as the left always does.
 
Labour-bu Stacey will launch with a new hat.
The tories will run Lowe.
Lib dems will form a coalition with farage who will step aside, just in time for both parties to be run into irrelevance.
Independence (paki party) and Greens (Islamic party lite) will continue to grow in strength.
 
Kier Starmer said:
The simple answer is the NHS is unsustainable with social care, it eats about 45% of GDP. We don't even have good nurses anymore, so many of them are Arab. My local council, which is one of the biggest in the UK, spends 85% of its revenue on social care. It is unsustainable.
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See all my and others previous posts on this about inbred Muslim immigrants. The cost of this is colossal.
FedPostalService said:
Labour have this weird conspiracy theory that if they go left wing enough then suddenly the unwashed masses who never vote will suddenly vote for Labour in droves.
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Real communism has never been tried, I’m told.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Labour-bu Stacey will launch with a new hat.
The tories will run Lowe.
Lib dems will form a coalition with farage who will step aside, just in time for both parties to be run into irrelevance.
Independence (paki party) and Greens (Islamic party lite) will continue to grow in strength.
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Paki MPs decide to all form a party.
They're all Independents.
Call themselves the United Kingdom Independents Party.
 
Smyrna said:
There will not be any general election until 2029. There is no reason for Labour to call one and no mechanism to force one.

What the alternatives look like at that point is entirely guesswork.
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I’m looking forward to the weirdos who screeched about unelected Tory prime ministers trying to get Starmer removed so they can put some fat communist in charge of the country with no elections.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Any reason for this particular date?
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I know it was the start of the Indian mutiny, if that's any relevance. Sorry, that was the 10th of May, not July.

Smyrna said:
There will not be any general election until 2029. There is no reason for Labour to call one and no mechanism to force one.
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This assumes Starmer will remain in charge and the party won't be openly split into opposed factions. Rayner is in open conflict with Starmer (if the express is to be believed) and there's a cadre of MPs threatening to resign over Starmer and Reeves' raiding of pensions and benefits. If Rayner launches a leadership bid, or if Starmer resigns and precipitates a leadership race, the party will split and will functionally lose its majority even if none of the rebel members formally resigns. In either event, enough of those rebellious MPs will side with calls for a new election under the threat of a vote of no confidence after the shitshow of the last few days; they will be balancing the guaranteed loss of their seats in 2029 against the merely potential loss of their seats in an election tomorrow, each hoping they'll be able to convince enough voters that they took a principled stand against Starmer et al to retain their seats.

Regardless, a snap election is very likely in the next year, regardless of whether or not Starmer is forced out, resigns, or neither. If he remains as leader, he will want to establish a new mandate for his leadership. If he's out, the new leader - faced with any number of problems - will likely have the same desire to establish a new mandate.

There are any number of mechanisms to force an election in these circumstances. Just because there's no formal "procedure for making the ruling party go away" doesn't mean the mechanisms don't exist. They're just a little more round-about.
 
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Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
Is this significant in any way? Where I live locally, It's been extremely conservative for the best decade, but since we're just above London we're erm.. becoming multicultural.

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They're shit (Lib Dems) but they also represent a section of the 'we want change' lot since they're not Labour or Tory but they're also too Centrist or Left-wing to vote for anything with Farage's name attached. Labour on social issues but they're less committed to the working class LARP (no union votes in their leadership contest) and also Tory fiscally but not as pro-business and make no remarks on immigration. Centre-left party basically with enough fiscal concessions to the Right to be palatable to the middle class but also not too far that they want to slash social spending.

At least they're not Green.
 
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