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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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celebrityskin said:
Not a Britbong, but been browsing the badunitedkingdom subreddit threads and from what I've read the general mood just feels like the country is broken, akin to a car with a conked out engine. Public services not doing their jobs, doctors and dental appointments impossible to get, potholes everywhere etc., like everyone and everything is just slowly subconsciously giving up.


Definitely something shady going on. I feel like TPTB wanted Sunak (while the membership wanted Kemi and Penny as the final 2, then Liz in 3rd place) but if they Rishi an anointment, party divisions would be even worse than what they are now
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The wheels have legit come off the entire apparatus of state. We nearly did the third world shuffle with the pension scheme fuckery just two weeks ago. It's absurd.
 
Conservatives only tend to get kicked out of office when they've imploded (people voting against Cons rather than for Labour), so this shitshow is a disaster. If they don't sort themselves out they're going to break up the country and give us Labour, a party whose leader just announced he wants to make 'misgendering' an 'aggravated offence'.

UPDATE: Sounds like Truss is about to resign. Statement imminently.

UPDATE 2: Truss out. New leadership election to be completed within the next week. Tory Leadership Speedrun--maybe Summoning Salt can start doing videos for this new category of speedruns.
 
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Congratulations to Liz Truss for breaking the glass ceiling and achieving the record for the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom in the span of 45 days! 👏
 
I wonder how they'll nobble it. Party rules are they need to put 2 conservative MPs to the membership to decide. The party quite clearly want Sunak but membership polls consistently show him as one of the least popular option amongst the membership.

Hunt has already rules himself out. Kwasi's career went down with Liz's. Suella is probably too tainted by it too. Kemi is never going to get the blessing of the party to stand.
 
frap said:
Conservatives only tend to get kicked out of office when they've imploded (people voting against Cons rather than for Labour), so this shitshow is a disaster. If they don't sort themselves out they're going to break up the country and give us Labour, a party whose leader just announced he wants to make 'misgendering' an 'aggravated offence'.

UPDATE: Sounds like Truss is about to resign. Statement imminently.

UPDATE 2: Truss out. New leadership election to be completed within the next week. Tory Leadership Speedrun--maybe Summoning Salt can start doing videos for this new category of speedruns.
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Can we get a new 3rd party that isn't the lolbertarians or greens. Fuck the both of these parties.
Coccxys said:
I wonder how they'll nobble it. Party rules are they need to put 2 conservative MPs to the membership to decide. The party quite clearly want Sunak but membership polls consistently show him as one of the least popular option amongst the membership.
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Not that green card curry muncher. Last thing the Brits need is a curry PM.
 
Slimy Time said:
Not that green card curry muncher. Last thing the Brits need is a curry PM.
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Come on, the UK can become the greatest utopia in the world by having a minority in the top office (after all the broken glass ceilings too). Besides, I can finally have my victory chicken tikka masala dinner (a month and a half late, but still). Because we all know chicken tikka masala IS the patriotic national dish of the UK!
 
draggs said:
There is only one man who can save the Tories from themselves and the UK from that idiot Starmer

Do it you Tory bastards

Bring back Boris

If they do actually give the membership power to make the choice it could be him
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If the membership were given an actual choice, instead of the fucked up primary system the party used, the PM right now would be a black woman who hates woke bullshit.
 
AnOminous said:
Called a man "he" accidentally.
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What she did was send out a press release about immigration from her personal e-mail account rather than her work email. Most people, especially those who follow the government closely, think she did it on purpose, for 3 reasons:

1 - It was a technical breach of the rules, but you don't get auto-fired for breaching them, especially in such a small way. It was a non-classified document that was to be sent out to the public anyway. In most circumstances such a senior minister wouldn't be expected to resign over something like that, they'd just have to apologise.

2 - The press release itself was in relation to a change in immigration policy that she personally disagreed with. In essence, it was a tightening of immigration controls without any extra funding for the border force and coastguard who would have to enforce it, and she had apparently told journalists off the record that the target was completely impossible to meet and Truss was setting her up. She apparently had a screaming row with Liz Truss about it.

3 - Resigning for breaching the rules, rather than because she couldn't work under Truss any more and didn't want to go down with the ship (which was clearly the real reason), lets her keep her nose clean while still being able to give Truss an absolute kicking in her resignation letter, which she knew was what the press would latch onto (which they did).

Basically it was a very smart and calculated move to position herself as well as possible for the shitstorm to come. I like Suella Braverman, she's a King's Counsel (the highest rank of lawyer in the UK) and extremely smart, and she has been the one hauling the Police over the coals recently for excessive wokery.

I also like Kemi Badenoch, she has the potential to be the black Maggie Thatcher. She's also an incredibly successful self-made businesswoman who hates woke ideology with every bone in her body. Can you imagine Margaret Thatcher but with African bolshiness? I hope she survives the inevitable Tory massacre at the next election, she could be the leader they need.

Unlike in the US, most immigrants in the UK aren't woke in the slightest, particularly the ones in politics. They've had to bootstrap themselves to get to the top, and they know that gibs don't get you out of poverty. I hope that the various harrumphing Huberts in the Tory party can put their sheer racism aside and realise that these people actually believe in Britishness. They fought to be British, and they're going to fight to stay British and keep Britain as the kind of place that allowed them to reach the top. Have you noticed that despite Labour's rampant wokery, all-woman shortlists, racial struggle sessions and the rest, they haven't managed a single leader who wasn't an old white man? In the meantime the Tories have had 3 female PMs and all manner of brown people in the key offices of state. It's because Tories believe in merit, Labour in tokenism. And ambitious, business-owning minorities have noticed that too.

Kemi Badenoch or Suella Braverman could rip a hole through Labour and actually give this country a future, because they would be living proof that Labour's ideology on race and gender is a load of bullshit. They would also take a much-needed broom to the crustier parts of the Tory party who would rather vote in a muppet like Liz Truss just because she's white. The Tories need to move past that, and the country needs them to.

We need a based black lady, because look where non-based white men have got us.
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
>assumes office
>kills the queen
>fucks up the economy further
>leaves after only 44 days
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You forgot
>Refuses to explain herself
Racist Trash said:
Boris begins again.
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You know, I said he was done earlier but if anyone's career could come back from being unceremoniously killed off its his. I also wasn't expecting Liz Truss to speedrun the usual "Thrown out of office in disgrace" career path that seems to be the norm for PM's that quickly.
 
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Spunt said:
she's a King's Counsel
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I'm still getting used to this...

Spunt said:
I also like Kemi Badenoch, she has the potential to be the black Maggie Thatcher. She's also an incredibly successful self-made businesswoman who hates woke ideology with every bone in her body. Can you imagine Margaret Thatcher but with African bolshiness? I hope she survives the inevitable Tory massacre at the next election, she could be the leader they need.
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Kemi is interesting. I could see her leading the party through a wilderness period and then taking it back into power after a short Labour term, assuming Labour go ahead with their plans to make everything even more stupid than it already is. A stint as the opposition leader would give her good experience. On the other hand, Braverman would probably - if she gets the top seat - be able to keep the party in power, though likely with a minority parliament. Anything to give Labour as little opportunity for power as possible. The only thing worse than a tory is a labourist.
 
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