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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.

 

[AnOminous]

The Labour Party spent most of the eighties fighting with each other leading to splinter factions such as SDP and Militant Tendency being founded and even in the Blair years you had the Respect Party.

Wasn't RESPECT basically just a George Galloway vehicle?

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Wasn't RESPECT basically just a George Galloway vehicle?

Yes. George Galloway was a big deal in the first half of the 2000s

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsaavo

Is part of it the Civil Service doing everything they can to keep the elected officials chasing their own tails so the CS can keep as much authority in their own hands as possible?

And where do you think most of the senior Civil Servants are educated?

 

[AnOminous]

Yes. George Galloway was a big deal in the first half of the 2000s

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsaavo

Too bad he isn't very active lately. He was a great lolcow.

 

[Shig O'nella]

Is part of it the Civil Service doing everything they can to keep the elected officials chasing their own tails so the CS can keep as much authority in their own hands as possible?

We prefer to call it Care in the Community, but basically yeah.

 

[teriyakiburns]

And where do you think most of the senior Civil Servants are educated?

The University. Some of them also graduated at Oxford, but they never really get ahead.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

The University. Some of them also graduated at Oxford, but they never really get ahead.

As a pleb I dont really understand the difference between the two except Cambridge has the Footlights and Oxford has Inspector Morse

 

[AnOminous]

As a pleb I dont really understand the difference between the two except Cambridge has the Footlights and Oxford has Inspector Morse

There's a reason they call the two institutions "Oxbridge" as they're almost the same thing, and they even have a shared accent that most "posh" people have which is why other Anglosphere countries erroneously think that English people are smart, because it sounds smart.

 

[teriyakiburns]

As a pleb I dont really understand the difference between the two except Cambridge has the Footlights and Oxford has Inspector Morse

Stereotypically, Cambridge graduates go into the civil service and the media, while Oxford graduates go into the sciences other useful fields. Realistically there's a lot of overlap between the two, but there's also a reason why the M11 stops just outside Cambridge, while Oxford has to slum it with a motorway built for Birmingham plebs.

 

[Wax Baron]

Home Office suspends ex-Met officer over racist WhatsApp chat​

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63147341

They won't show the images for being 'too offensive', but do make mention of Harry and Meghan memes

And the snitch in question.
From an interview he did with some blog called The Upsetter - "David Eden, the whistleblower, said he became a sleeper in the Met because of a incident in 1982, when police colleagues were racist towards his Indian girlfriend." Man also got a Che tattoo at 40 years old.

 

[AnOminous]

And the snitch in question.
From an interview he did with some blog called The Upsetter - "David Eden, the whistleblower, said he became a sleeper in the Met because of a incident in 1982, when police colleagues were racist towards his Indian girlfriend." Man also got a Che tattoo at 40 years old.

This pathetic shit is like an East German newspaper lionizing a Stasi informant for snitching on his neighbors.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

This pathetic shit is like an East German newspaper lionizing a Stasi informant for snitching on his neighbors.

I’ve said this before fren — leave the left and come to the dark side. Besides slightly more human decency compared to the left, we have snacks and drinks.

 

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UK: Non-Binary Sailor Cleared of Sexual Assault Charge Following “Demisexuality” Defense​

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A British sailor accused of sexual assault has been cleared of his charges after arguing in court that his demisexual identity made it impossible for him to have committed the crime.

Triss Smythe, an Air Engineering Technician with the Royal Navy, was found not guilty of sexual assault following a 3-day trial in a Wiltshire, UK, military court. The charges stemmed from a summer incident in which Smythe, who identifies as non-binary, was reported after non-consensually kissing, licking, and “grinding up” on a fellow serviceman.

The alleged incident took place at the Royal Navy Air Station Yeovilton in Somerset. Smythe was said to have circled behind the alleged victim, grabbed him in a tight embrace, and thrust against him to the point that he could feel Smythe’s penis against him. Smythe also kissed him on the neck for what the alleged victim reported “felt like a lifetime.”

According to The Daily Mail, the complainant forcefully pushed Smythe away and told him to stop, after which he filed a formal report with higher-ups. During the trial, he reported feeling “violated and humiliated” by the acts.

“I don’t know what I had done to deserve it. To do it on the neck, for me that’s a really sexual and passionate area. It was unwarranted and unprecedented and there is no history between us,” the alleged victim told the court.

The complainant’s testimony was supported by a witness, a female sailor, who substantiated his account of the story. She reported that Smythe had “gripped [the victim] extremely close – I don’t think you could have got a hand between them.”

The witness continued: “It looked like Smythe kissed his neck. I saw him do something quite intimate. It wasn’t something I would have done to a colleague. It’s not something you would expect at work.”

But Smythe contested the claims, saying he had only briefly touched and kissed the alleged victim.

During the course of the trial, Smythe also told the court he could not have assaulted the other sailor because he was demisexual.

“I am demisexual – with emotional requirements. It is on the asexual spectrum … The fact is I’m demisexual – sexual urge isn’t something that comes easily with my own fiancee, let alone a colleague.”

Demisexual people are said to only feel sexually attracted to another person when they have formed an emotional bond with the person, or have gotten to know them.

Smythe suggested that his sexual identity made it so that he could not have sexually assaulted anyone unless he had a strong emotional bond with them. Smythe argued that he did not find the alleged victim sexually attractive, and thus there was no sexual undertone to his touching.

Smythe, who is reportedly engaged to a woman, was apparently known for yelling “I’m here and I’m queer” in the workplace.

Last year, Smythe was profiled by Forces.net in an article encouraging people to make “small changes” to help “non-binary, trans and women” service members feel included.

Smythe mentioned that his squadron had assigned a special washroom to be gender-neutral for him in an effort to accommodate his non-binary gender identity.

“It had a sign on it saying ‘gender-neutral toilet’ which means I didn’t feel like I was in a male space, therefore I had to be male.”

 

[indigoisviolet]

From the DM link in the above:

AB Smythe said the contact was 'not in the slightest' bit sexual, that they had 'no reason to thrust into him' and the kiss was 'purely platonic, a between friends type of kiss'.

Is this the French navy or something? We don't go around randomly kissing people in Britain.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Is this the French navy or something? We don't go around randomly kissing people in Britain.

Maybe it was a convention of vicars?

 

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Three men have been arrested for 'raping 20-year-old man in alleyway next to Domino's Pizza'​

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• Man was walking in the alleyway between 11 and 11.59pm by the pizza shop
• He was approached by men unknown to him who allegedly assaulted him
• Three men have been arrested on suspicion of rape of a man over 16

Three men have been arrested for 'raping a 20-year-old man in an alleyway next to a Domino's Pizza.'

The man was walking in the alleyway between 11 and 11.59pm on Tuesday next to the pizza shop in Bridge Street, Andover.

He was approached by men who were unknown to him who then reportedly assaulted him.

The victim is being supported by specialist officers.

Two men aged 32 and 39 from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and a 22-year-old man from Batley, West Yorkshire, were arrested on suspicion of rape of a man aged over 16.

The men remain in custody at this time.

A spokesman for Hampshire Constabulary yesterday said: 'Officers investigating a rape in Andover have arrested three men.

'Sometime between 11:00pm and 11:59pm on Tuesday, a 20-year-old man was walking up an alleyway, next to Domino's Pizza on Bridge Street, Andover. when he was approached by two men unknown to him.

'The men then assaulted the victim who is being supported by specialist officers.

'Two men aged 32 years and 39 years, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and a 22-year-old man from Batley, West Yorkshire, have been arrested on suspicion of rape of a man aged over 16 years. They remain in custody at this time.'

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

You forgot to add that Labour the Lib Dems are both pushing for proportional representation. Which if it got in would give us the situation much of Europe is in at the moment where they get in hamstrung parties that can get nothing done but end up in endless meetings where nothing gets done.

Last time the idea of proportional representation was thrown around with the public being allowed to vote on whether they wanted it or not, both Labour and the Tories banded together to denounce it as evil. It mostly consisted of them pointing to the fact that UKIP had won >10% of the votes in the most recent general election at the time, but had only gotten 2 seats thanks to FPTP.

Coincidently, once a party wins an election thanks to FPTP, they stop wanting to get rid of FPTP. Trudeau did the same in Canada, campaigning for a reform of the Canadian election process, then scrapping it once he won thanks to said election process.

 

[indigoisviolet]

Three men have been arrested for 'raping 20-year-old man in alleyway next to Domino's Pizza'​

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Andover? As in Hampshire, North Wessex Downs Andover? Not safe anywhere these days.

Those rapists are a long way from home, too. I wonder what's going on? Low security inmates from HMP Winchester?

 

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Number of dog attack victims needing hospital treatment in England soars by 18% in a year​

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• Doctors carried out 3,272 operations last year, 419 of them on young children
• Admissions for dog bites which included injuries not needing surgery also rose
• Dr Candy d’Sa said the figures reflected the burgeoning dog population

The number of dog-bite victims having surgery has hit a 15-year high, NHS figures show.

Doctors carried out 3,272 reconstructive operations last year – 419 of them on children aged four and under.

Total admissions for dog bites, which included injuries not needing surgery, also rose. It meant hospitals in England dealt with 8,819 cases in 2021-22, up 18 per cent on the year before.

Dr Candy d’Sa, an animal behaviour consultant, said the figures reflected the four million increase in the dog population.

Last week a 65-year-old mother was killed by five bulldogs in a property in Liverpool.

 

[East_Clintwood]

https://twitter.com/EddieIzzardLab/status/1579796464833806336

Eddie Izzard has formally announced a plan to run for selection as a Labour MP in Sheffield Central. Twitter is hilariously torn between people being mad that a larping celeb faggot is parachuting in to steal a safe seat, and people kissing his arse becuase zomg celebrity and he totally has local ties because he went to Uni here forty fucking years ago.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Andover? As in Hampshire, North Wessex Downs Andover? Not safe anywhere these days.

Those rapists are a long way from home, too. I wonder what's going on? Low security inmates from HMP Winchester?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewsbury#Ethnic_groups