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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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teriyakiburns said:
I guess someone drove a dump truck full of money up to his front door.
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He's doing it purely to stroke his own ego. If the Sausage Roll song gets number one then Ladbaby will have broken a record set by The Beatles and equaled by The Spice Girls and themselves.

Even if they do it. The victory will be Pyrrhic, as Twitter is already sifting through their shit and finding some interesting things. Like how they have £1.2 mil in the bank and that they may be Tory donors.
 
CWCissey said:
Apparently Christmas Number one is actually interesting this year...

Some DIY punk band re-released a dumb song that's just calling Boris Johnson a fucking cunt throughout the play time but they may be doing so well that it's actually got Ladbaby rattled.

www.independent.co.uk

LadBaby criticises The Kunts for trying to get Christmas No 1 with Boris Johnson song

Comedy rock group’s track ‘Boris Johnson Is STILL A F***ing C***’ reached No 5 in midweek chart
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Holy fuck this guy's still around? I remember Kunt from the B3ta days when he was still Kunt and the Gang:
I suddenly feel so old.
 
Nobody talking about the 19 year old kid who tried to enter windsor with a crossbow, after posting a video saying he was going to assassinate the queen?

www.bbc.co.uk

Man found with crossbow at Windsor Castle sectioned

A crossbow was found on the man after he was stopped on Christmas Day, police say.
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No need to assassinate her when she's on her last legs, and lol at getting sectioned. This isn't the first time the royal family made an attacker/would-be attacker, disappear from the face of the Earth with no judge or jury.
 
Billy Beer said:
Nobody talking about the 19 year old kid who tried to enter windsor with a crossbow, after posting a video saying he was going to assassinate the queen?

www.bbc.co.uk

Man found with crossbow at Windsor Castle sectioned

A crossbow was found on the man after he was stopped on Christmas Day, police say.
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No need to assassinate her when she's on her last legs, and lol at getting sectioned. This isn't the first time the royal family made an attacker/would-be attacker, disappear from the face of the Earth with no judge or jury.
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Well, it's good to know the Queen got a good sacrifice to keep her tottering on for a little longer.
 
CWCissey said:
I don't know what it is about punk music, but they always tend to stick about.
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Unemployability means no options for progressing to another career.

Billy Beer said:
Nobody talking about the 19 year old kid who tried to enter windsor with a crossbow, after posting a video saying he was going to assassinate the queen?
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Was on the front page of every newspaper the other day. Probably about to see a push for "oi mate, you got a licence for that crossbow" laws. By 'em while you can folks.
 
https://archive.is/A3PmA (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59841419)

Blair becomes 'Sir Tony' and joins top royal order​

Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Baroness Amos are to be appointed as members of the Order of the Garter, England's oldest and most senior order of chivalry.
The former prime minister now becomes known as Sir Tony.
The appointments are the personal choice of the Queen, with up to 24 "knight and lady companions".
Baroness Amos, a former Labour cabinet minister, becomes the first black member of the order.
The ceremonial order, founded in 1348, is a recognition of significant public service, made as the personal gift of the monarch.
Whitty and Van-Tam knighted in New Year Honours
Lumley and Redgrave made dames by the Queen
Mr Blair becomes Sir Tony from 1 January, as he joins the order as a "knight companion".
"It's an immense honour," he said. "I would like to thank all those who served alongside me, in politics, public service and all parts of our society, for their dedication and commitment to our country."
He says he will be "Sir Tony" rather than Sir Anthony,
Baroness Amos
Baroness Amos becomes the first black member of the order in over 700 years
There have been several fictional on-screen depictions of the relationship between the head of state and her former prime minister - but this might be seen as an act of personal recognition from the Queen.
Baroness Amos becomes a "lady companion", honouring her career as international development secretary, a United Nations under-secretary for humanitarian affairs. and her current role - master of University College, Oxford.
She is the first black member appointed to the order in more than 700 years.
Baroness Amos, 67 and Tony Blair, 68, become two of the order's younger members, with most in their seventies, eighties and above, in a post held until death.
Personal approval
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, is appointed as a "royal companion" - a move likely to be seen as showing the Queen's endorsement for Camilla's role as a senior member of the royal family and spouse of the future monarch.
The duchess has had an increasingly high profile with her own campaigns, such as warning against domestic violence.
With the new appointments there will now be 21 companions out of the maximum of 24.
Camilla
Camilla has been given this elevation by the Queen
Another former prime minister, Sir John Major, is among the current members of the Order of the Garter, along with businessman and philanthropist Lord Sainsbury and former MI5 chief, Baroness Manningham-Buller.
Appointments are usually made in April, but they have been brought forward this year.
The order, instituted by Edward III in the 14th Century, was rooted in the idea of medieval chivalry and monarchs surrounded by their most senior aristocratic companions.
The modern criteria, according to Buckingham Palace, is to "honour those who have undertaken public service, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the sovereign personally".
The Queen takes part in an annual procession with members of the order at Windsor Castle, wearing velvet robes and plumed hats.
A banner of the heraldic arms of the knights are on display at St George's Chapel at the castle.
In Scotland there is the Order of the Thistle, instituted in 1687, with the most recent appointment made in 2018.
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Ok, the Epstein connections were one thing but I think it really is time to kill the queen.
 
https://archive.is/lWrA8 (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-59727161)

Edward Colston statue: Four cleared of criminal damage​

Four people accused of illegally removing a statue of Edward Colston have been cleared of criminal damage.
Sage Willoughby, Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, and Jake Skuse were charged after a monument to the 17th Century slave trader was pulled down and thrown into Bristol's harbourside last June.
It happened during a Black Lives Matter protest in the city.
Loud cheers erupted in the public gallery of Bristol Crown Court as the verdicts were returned.
The defendants laughed and hugged supporters who were waiting outside of court after they were released.
Numerous people supported the defendants ahead of the not guilty verdicts
Mr Willoughby, 22, was also seen taking the knee - a symbolic gesture of the BLM movement - outside court.
Three of the four defendants also wore t-shirts designed by Banksy which featured a stencil of the toppled statue's plinth as they appeared from the court building.
Speaking outside the court after being acquitted, Ms Graham said: "We just want to say thank you to so many people because we have never been alone in this journey.
"We have been so supported and we are such a small part of this.
"There were so many people that day. So many people reverberating across the world in response to it (the statue's toppling)."
Raj Chada, who represented Mr Skuse, said the "defendants should never have been prosecuted".
'Shameful'
He added: "It is shameful that Bristol City Council did not take down the statue of slaver Edward Colston that had caused such offence to people in Bristol and equally shameful that they then supported the prosecution of these defendants."
Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, for Rhian Graham, 30, claimed that the case "demonstrates the fundamental importance of trial by jury".
"In this case, they determined that a conviction for the removal of this statue - that glorified a slave trader involved in the enslavement of over 84,000 black men, women and children as a 'most virtuous and wise' man - would not be proportionate."
During a highly publicised trial, the court heard that the statue was ripped down before being thrown into the harbour during a wave of protests triggered by the murder of African-American George Floyd by a white police officer.
The four defendants, together with "others unknown", were accused of damaging the Colston statue and plinth of a value unknown without lawful excuse.
The statue was stamped on after it was pulled down
The statue was stamped on after it was pulled down
During the trial, Mr Skuse, 33, said he took part in rolling the statue to the docks to stage a symbolic "sentencing" of the slave trader.
Mr Willoughby argued that the statue was an "insult".
Appearing in the dock, he said: "Imagine having a Hitler statue in front of a Holocaust survivor - I believe they are similar.
"Having a statue of someone of that calibre in the middle of the city I believe is an insult, and I will continue to believe that whatever the outcome of this."
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So does this mean someone can thermite the Nelson Mandela statue in london cos he's a mass murder?
 
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