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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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AnOminous said:
Possibly the BBC still likes whatever remains of the tattered remnants of their reputation as an objective news source, which used to make them a worldwide source of record, and as much bullshit as they now tolerate, hysterical "NAWTSEEEE NAWTSEEEEE!" shit is still beyond what they can endure without looking like complete clowns.

That too. They want obedient minions, not retarded loose cannons. Also maybe they just didn't care terribly for him in the first place.
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Maybe Lineker is trying to pull a 'Clarkson' and get a golden parachute out of his BBC contract so he can go work for another station. Or maybe it's all just a cover and him, Wright and a few others are sick of the woke crap forced into sports.

The other day I had to sit through 90 minutes worth of commentary from a woman. While hilariously bad, it made me think what torture it must be spending 4 hours in a studio with them.
 
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Migrant boats are the same as the 'totally spontaneous, well-organised protests'. They're both fake. Those dinghies that turn up are always top of the the line and in good nick. The people photographed always have clean, top of the range life-vests on and are kitted to the nines with civilian clothing.

You don't see people paddling over in bathtubs wearing rags. It's an international operation paid for by the governments, who use the media to highlight a new 'flavour' of migrant every few months so that you forget the last flavour who have just been waved through asylum.

Sorry for the sperging but Britain isn't been filled with asylum seekers, it is been filled to the brim with fighters and soldiers. A sensible take would be because they are the only ones fit enough to do the cross-continental journey. The tinfoil take would be that they are a foreign army waiting for the call to arms.
 
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Migrant boats are the same as the 'totally spontaneous, well-organised protests'. They're both fake. Those dinghies that turn up are always top of the the line and in good nick. The people photographed always have clean, top of the range life-vests on and are kitted to the nines with civilian clothing.
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Yeah these aren't the sad fucks who get sold fake life vests by Turks that actually make you sink.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Migrant boats are the same as the 'totally spontaneous, well-organised protests'. They're both fake. Those dinghies that turn up are always top of the the line and in good nick. The people photographed always have clean, top of the range life-vests on and are kitted to the nines with civilian clothing.

You don't see people paddling over in bathtubs wearing rags. It's an international operation paid for by the governments, who use the media to highlight a new 'flavour' of migrant every few months so that you forget the last flavour who have just been waved through asylum.

Sorry for the sperging but Britain isn't been filled with asylum seekers, it is been filled to the brim with fighters and soldiers. A sensible take would be because they are the only ones fit enough to do the cross-continental journey. The tinfoil take would be that they are a foreign army waiting for the call to arms.
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Its cheap labour working for cash in hand to undermine the working class. The same with all immigrants since WW2 except for Eastern Europeans who just want to get enough money to buy a farm back in Slavland.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
Its cheap labour working for cash in hand to undermine the working class. The same with all immigrants since WW2 except for Eastern Europeans who just want to get enough money to buy a farm back in Slavland.
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Some migrants are cheap labour. I'll save the power levelling and boring story but I worked in a place filled with migrants for 4 months. Eastern europeans (polish, romanian) and Africans exclusively. No other flavour of migrant to be found. This was a place with approx 2000 migrant employees.

YMMV, but I don't think all of them are here for cheap labour.
 
SNP loses a huge chunk of members because of its tranny stance.

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SNP says its membership has fallen to 72,000

The party reveals its membership numbers amid a row over the conduct of its leadership race.
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The SNP's membership has fallen to just over 72,000, the party has confirmed amid a row over the integrity of its leadership race.

Candidates Ash Regan and Kate Forbes had demanded to know how many members were eligible to vote in the contest to succeed Nicola Sturgeon.

The party initially refused to do so - but has now told the candidates that it has 72,186 members.

It means it has lost 32,000 members from the 104,000 it had two years ago.

The SNP's membership hit a peak of 125,000 in 2019 as support for the party surged in the wake of the independence referendum but had dropped to 85,000 by the end of last year.

Its Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn, told BBC Scotland earlier this week he had "no idea" how many members the party had, but that "I think the last time I heard it was about 100,000".

Ms Forbes' campaign manager, Michelle Thomson MSP, said she was pleased that "common sense has prevailed" and the membership numbers had been published - but that the "alarming drop in members shows that the party needs a change in direction".

Ms Regan issued a statement that said only: "I get things done", with her campaign questioning on Twitter whether the big drop in membership - which it linked to the government's controversial gender reforms - was a reason for Ms Sturgeon's resignation.

She later told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme that it had been several weeks since she first asked for the membership figures to be released, but that she was pleased it had been as "we want to show that the SNP is fair, transparent and accountable".

Ms Regan also repeated her call for an independent observer to be appointed to oversee the leadership election.

The SNP's national secretary, Lorna Finn, wrote to the candidates earlier on Thursday in an attempt to address their concerns about transparency.

A spokesperson for the party said: "All three candidates were successful in parliamentary selection contests using exactly the same voting system and independent ballot services firm.

"The national secretary has again confirmed all necessary safeguards are in place to protect the integrity of the ballot."

The third candidate in the contest, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, said his two rivals had produced no tangible evidence that would throw the integrity of the election process into question.

But he added that it had been "a bit of an own goal" for the party not to have published the figure at the start of the process, adding: "I don't know why they didn't - they should have done and certainly if I'm the leader of the party I'll make sure they are published annually."

Mr Yousaf is widely seen as being the favoured candidate of Ms Sturgeon and the SNP hierarchy as a whole, with Ms Regan previously claiming that the party HQ was "bussing in" his supporters to hustings events.

Ms Regan has also questioned the role of SNP chief executive Peter Murrell - Ms Sturgeon's husband - in the leadership contest, saying it was a "clear conflict of interest".

Her campaign had also said it had concerns about votes from deceased party members or those who have allowed their membership to expire.

An open letter sent on behalf of Ms Regan and Ms Forbes to Mr Murrell had called on him to clarify how many "paid-up" members the party has, and the number of digital and postal voting papers that have been released.

Ms Sturgeon denied her party was in crisis and said she had "100% confidence" in the process as she left her penultimate First Minister's Questions on Thursday.

She added: "My party is having a democratic leadership election - growing pains for any organisation can be painful, but they are important.

"I think it's incumbent for the three candidates standing to succeed me that they remember the task is to retain the trust of the Scottish people that we have won consistently over, not just the eight years of my leadership, but consistently since 2007."

SNP president Mike Russell told BBC Scotland the highest standards were being observed but accepted that the membership figures should have been published earlier.

"The party has to unite after this," he said. "We have an important job to do for Scotland and I'm quite sure the three candidates are capable of that."

Scottish Conservatives chairman Craig Hoy said the SNP "had to be dragged kicking and screaming into even releasing these numbers".

He added: "The SNP government are out-of-touch with the real priorities of Scotland and it seems tens of thousands of now former members have also come to that conclusion and decided enough is enough."

The leadership ballot is being managed by Southampton-based polling firm Mi-Voice, which the SNP has used for internal contests since 2013. The result is due to be announced on 27 March.
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There have been more resignations as of today. Their press rep went yesterday, now Fishface's husband has resigned as the party CE. Seems like the SNP is imploding. A far cry from a month ago, when the terminally-online were crowing that the troon vote would guarantee the SNP's permanent ascendancy and Scotland's independence.
 
I do like seeing a sign Scotland is moving away from one party rule.

I'll keep the trend of good news up, looks like the last lot to receive medals for gallantry that were approved by the Queen include those involved in the London Bridge attack. Including the man who decided the best thing to do when seeing a knife armed suicide bomber (bomb was fake but he did not know that at the time) was to grab an ornamental narwhal tusk to fight him with.

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Attack heroes on Queen's final bravery awards list

Five of the civilian commendations go to men who confronted the London Bridge attacker in 2019.
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Members of the public who tackled the man behind the London Bridge attack in 2019 are among the recipients of the final civilian gallantry awards approved by the late Queen.
The list includes a Queen's Gallantry Medal for Darryn Frost who used a narwhal tusk to fend off Usman Khan outside the Fishmongers' Hall event.
The same award goes to two ex-offenders - John Crilly, who used a fire extinguisher on the attacker, and Steven Gallant, who helped confront him until police arrived.
Mr Gallant, who had been convicted of murder but has since been freed, has since spoken of wanting to inspire prisoners wanting to turn their lives around.
He was commended for standing his ground against Khan, who was carrying two knives and wearing what turned out to be an imitation belt of explosives.

The bravery award winners are among 15 people praised for their heroic actions in the last list approved by the Queen, who died last September.

Such awards in future will be known as the King's Gallantry Medal or the King's Commendation for Bravery.
In November 2019 Khan fatally stabbed Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, and injured three other people at the conference held by an organisation involved in the rehabilitation of offenders in the City of London. He then ran on to London Bridge, and was later shot dead by armed officers.

A porter at the hall, Lucasz Koczocik, also received a Queen's Gallantry Medal for forcing Khan out of the venue, using an ornamental spear, despite him having sustained serious injuries from three stab wounds.
And prison officer Adam Roberts was commended for providing emergency first aid, while the attack was going on around him.

The bravery awards include those caught up in the terror attack beside London Bridge that claimed two lives
The five men brought together by the event were commended for the courage of their response - using improvised weapons and facing great danger themselves, as they chased the attacker on to the bridge.
Mr Frost used a narwhal tusk that had been on display at Fishmongers' Hall and pinned Khan down, despite the risk from what had seemed to be the suicide belt.

The final Queen's awards also include a posthumous Queen's Gallantry Medal for John Rees, who at the age of 88, died when he intervened in a knife attack at a shop in Penygraig, Rhondda in south Wales in May 2020.
There are also awards for Lisa Way and Ayette Bounouri who came to his assistance. Mrs Bounouri used a shopping basket to try to deflect the attacker.
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The recipients, announced by the Cabinet Office, are nominated by the public in recognition of "exemplary bravery in saving the lives of others".
They are approved by the monarch, on the advice of the George Cross Committee which considers such awards, with these latest civilian honours the first for two years.
Oliver Dowden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said the latest recipients were "extremely worthy winners" of the Queen's last such awards.

"We all hope we'd react with courage in the face of danger. These people have lived through that test, and responded in the most admirable way," said Mr Dowden.
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Edit; found a picture of this insanity in action. Somehow I do not think stabby pictured this was how his day was going to go.

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So some head teacher had an OFSTED inspection, and the school was failed on Safeguarding concerns; she an hero'd and the usual suspects are trying to use this to disband school inspections with one bucktoothed cunt refusing inspectors access to her school. The board of governors of the school who are ultimately responsible for school progress skulk away with no fingers pointing at them. Facebook is up in arms.
In other news, pakistani rape gangs are bad,.
 
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Launch of life-saving public emergency alerts

A new system that will give the Government and emergency services the capability to send an alert directly to mobiles phones when there is a risk to life has been launched today
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Government literally flexing that they've arbitrarily given themselves the power to fuck with your phone at will. Because 'Wildfires' are such a common problem in one of the dampest places in Europe. Fucking cunts.
 
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