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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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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
I’m still not voting for Starmer.
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Only his constituents would, anyway.

In the cold light of day, I'm murdering my previous optimism before it gets out of hand. It was mostly fuelled by alcohol and cope, and relied on ignoring the fact that Labour is still dominated by loonies and trendies and has absolutely no care for the working class. Starmer is obviously pivoting to try and exploit a populist trend, but he's cut from the same cloth as all the rest of them and won't ever carry through.
 
Free Speech Union (after being blocked by Paypal) have focussed their attention on payment processors and will now be lobbying for change to the UK government”

“The FSU is lobbying for a change to the law so it becomes illegal for payment processing companies to withhold or withdraw service from any customer for purely political reasons. Unless we rein in companies like PayPal and stop them engaging in this new form of censorship, it will be the end of free speech as we know it, particularly as we move towards a cashless society.”

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Lots of UK Politicians were pretty furious about Paypal censoring the FSU, it was mentioned multiple times in Parliament so maybe there will be a lot of support.

We shall see.
 
teriyakiburns said:
It was mostly fuelled by alcohol and cope, and relied on ignoring the fact that Labour is still dominated by loonies and trendies and has absolutely no care for the working class.
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IMO it was Tony bLiar who put the last nail in the coffin of the idea that they gave a single shit about workers. I mean it was already fairly obvious but there was still a pulse before him. Then the woketards swooped in from the wings and completely took over in the following years and that's where we are now.
 

UK drops plans for £250m national flagship yacht​

Plans for a national flagship yacht to promote the UK abroad have been shelved, the defence secretary has announced.
Ben Wallace told MPs a competition to build the vessel, estimated to cost up to £250m, had been terminated.
The ship was commissioned by former PM Boris Johnson last year to host trade fairs and diplomatic events.
No 10 said it was right to "prioritise" spending "at a time when difficult spending decisions need to be made".
The move comes as the government searches for spending cuts ahead of an autumn statement on 17 November, also likely to include tax rises.
Labour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said he welcomed the news "the previous prime minister's vanity project has been scrapped".

The vessel, which was never given a name, would have succeeded the Royal Yacht Britannia, which was retired in 1997 after 44 years in service.
It was originally meant to cost £150m when first announced, but Mr Wallace last year put the price at between £200m and £250m.
The government had said it wanted the ship to be built in the UK, and enter service in 2024 or 2025.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Wallace said the government was "accelerating" the development of research and surveillance ships.
He added that, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it was "right that we prioritise delivering capabilities that safeguard our national infrastructure".

A spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told reporters: "With Russia's ongoing illegal war, it is right that we prioritise our capabilities."
Mr Sunak "thinks it is right to prioritise at a time when difficult spending decisions need to be made," the spokesman added.
Speaking at an event to promote the flagship last year, Mr Wallace promised it would be the "jewel in the crown" of the government's shipbuilding strategy.
"Our ambition is for something special, not just a cutting-edge ship, but a truly national flagship," he said.
"I want the grandparents of the future, to boast to their grandchildren and say one day 'I helped to build that ship!'" he added.
In a report last year, the Commons defence committee estimated the flagship would require 50-60 personnel and cost £20-30m a year to run.
This would add to "ongoing pressure on an already constrained naval budget," the committee added.

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UK drops plans for £250m national flagship yacht

The ship, commissioned by ex-PM Boris Johnson, was meant to help promote the UK around the world.
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Johan Schmidt said:
I'd honestly rather they spent the cash on the boat than the Ukrainian war.

Also, Sunak just ordered the UK to pay reparations for building the entire planet.
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COP27: UK cannot afford to pay climate change ‘reparations’, warns Boris Johnson

Former PM says net zero must be achieved via investment from private sector rather than through western taxpayers
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Paki faggot.
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I bet that in the upcoming weeks he'll be returning stuff like the Koh-i-Noor next.

The museums will become as empty as the future hopes of the isle.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
Also, Sunak just ordered the UK to pay reparations for building the entire planet.

Paki faggot.
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get ready for poll tax 2: electric boogaloo if he tries a "reparations tax" or whatever gay shit he'll dump on the taxpayer. if anything the rich twats of this country should be the ones to pay, their ancestors profited off empire more than any common man did.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
I'd honestly rather they spent the cash on the boat than the Ukrainian war.

Also, Sunak just ordered the UK to pay reparations for building the entire planet.
www.ft.com

COP27: UK cannot afford to pay climate change ‘reparations’, warns Boris Johnson

Former PM says net zero must be achieved via investment from private sector rather than through western taxpayers
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Paki faggot.
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The FT is telling me I need to sub to read, and when I ran that link through archive.ph it spat out this:
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the UK did not have the financial resources to pay “reparations” to low-income countries affected by climate change.
Speaking at an event organised by the New York Times at COP27 in Egypt, Johnson said that climate action had been “one of the most important collateral victims” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for leaders not to give in to “energy blackmail”.
He said that net zero would have to be achieved through investment from the private sector in partnership with the international community rather than through taxpayers in western countries.
“Per capita, people in the UK put a lot of carbon in the atmosphere,” said Johnson. “But what we cannot do I’m afraid is make up for that with some sort of reparations, we simply do not have the financial resources.”
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Which is you know, kinda based of him. "Sorry Third World, western taxpayers can't afford to pay for it all."
 
Snekposter said:
The FT is telling me I need to sub to read, and when I ran that link through archive.ph it spat out this:

Which is you know, kinda based of him. "Sorry Third World, western taxpayers can't afford to pay for it all."
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Sorry, I linked the wrong thing homie; and he either backed out, or I misread the original thing I was reading lol.
The 2.2 billion a year to climate change charity work is also absurd however.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
Sorry, I linked the wrong thing homie; and he either backed out, or I misread the original thing I was reading lol.
The 2.2 billion a year to climate change charity work is also absurd however.
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Yeah, I think you misread. But yeah, that money is absurd, and don't worry, Sturgeon in Scotland has put forwards two million pounds that were no doubt donated to that foggy shithole by Westminster towards the cause of climate repartion.
 
Snekposter said:
Yeah, I think you misread. But yeah, that money is absurd, and don't worry, Sturgeon in Scotland has put forwards two million pounds that were no doubt donated to that foggy shithole by Westminster towards the cause of climate repartion.
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I've known we had these absurd payments going out year after year since like 2010 now, but everytime I get reminded that they still exist it infuriates me. We're spending like 3 billion on African railways. Our own fucking railways don't work! I genuinely cannot tell if it's some insane lysenko style belief in the cause, or if it's a scam somehow. But either way, it annoys me.
 
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