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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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Snekposter said:
This entire thread is Exhibit A in why we despise your shitty garbage patch of an island.
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Its OK yanky, we understand it can be painful to witness your nations empire fall apart. It will get better with time.

Hey, Rome died but the Italians are still here. Regrettably.
 

SNP's new leader starting the job off by going full retard and trying to challenge the Section 35 order we used to stop their gender recognition nonsense. Probably the most interesting part to me was this:
A recent opinion poll by Panelbase for the Sunday Times suggested that 18% of Scottish voters think Mr Yousaf should launch a legal challenge, while 44% said that he should abandon the reforms and 24% believed a compromise should be found with the UK government.
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Pleasantly surprised that so many are publicly against this bollocks.
 
whogoesthere said:
Its OK yanky, we understand it can be painful to witness your nations empire fall apart. It will get better with time.
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They can join us in the pub of fallen Empires to reminisce over a pint. Just think, next ones might be the Chinese again.
whogoesthere said:
Hey, Rome died but the Italians are still here. Regrettably.
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What did the Romans ever do for us?
East_Clintwood said:

SNP's new leader starting the job off by going full retard and trying to challenge the Section 35 order we used to stop their gender recognition nonsense. Probably the most interesting part to me was this:

Pleasantly surprised that so many are publicly against this bollocks.
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His plan seems to be doing what Nicola already got told by the public and courts to fuck off over but expecting a different outcome this time because it was clearly unfair before.
Or more likely the SNP knows the time of grift is drawing to a close so everyone wants their share now meaning a repeat of what Sturgeon did to line her pockets.
 
As much as I hate him, it's been quite cathartic watching him so thoroughly humilate himself over the last few days on the world stage. Even normies have been laughing at his pathetic plastic paddy antics, and questioning the US/UK relationship.

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I've always thought the most obnoxious cunts in the world are plastic paddies. Apparently I'd never considered the even more horrific thought of an Alzheimer's riddle tard of a plastic paddy.
 
I wouldn't normally recommend you watch LotusEaters if you don't already, but this nicely sums up the current government thinking on the concept of sex.

Warning: You might need a drink or ten.

 
According to a recent census in England and Wales 1 in 67 Muslims identify as trans (Particularly in communities that don’t speak English as their first language):
Academics say non-English speakers misunderstood convoluted question by ONS

The statistics regulator is examining concerns that the data behind landmark census figures on the UK’s transgender population may be flawed.

Academics have queried findings by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that 262,000 people identify as transgender in England and Wales.

Michael Biggs, a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford, believes the question posed to record the gender identity of respondents may have confused those whose first language is not English.

He claimed it may be why the London boroughs of Newham and Brent, which have a significant percentage of residents who speak English as a second language, recorded the highest proportion of transgender people in the UK.

Overall, those who speak English poorly were found to be five times more likely to be transgender, prompting concerns about the data.

The ONS confirmed that it was working with the Office for Statistics Regulation on the issue and conceded it was “possible” that respondents had misinterpreted the question.

Biggs said: “I’m 99 per cent sure that misinterpretation has had a significant impact in inflating the numbers.”

In January the ONS produced figures showing that there were 262,000 people — or 0.5 per cent of the population over the age of 16 — who declared themselves transgender.

The results were taken from answers to the latest census in 2021, which is produced every ten years and explored gender identity for the first time that year.

Of the 262,000 people who said they were transgender, 118,000 did not provide further details.

About 48,000, or 0.1 per cent of the population aged 16 and over, identified as a trans man, and 48,000 identified as a trans woman. Thirty-thousand people identified as non-binary, while a further 18,000 wrote down a different gender identity.

However, other data from the ONS released last week showed that those who speak English “not well” or “not well at all” were most likely to be counted as transgender, at 2.2 per cent.

This compared with 0.4 per cent of those whose main language is English or Welsh — making those who speak English poorly five times more likely to be transgender.

Adults whose main language is not English made up 10 per cent of the overall population but, according to the census, they contributed 29 per cent of the transgender numbers.

The census results also show that one in 67 Muslims is transgender, a figure Biggs claims is “not plausible”.

Biggs, who first made his census claims in The Spectator magazine last week, said the problem with the figures originates from the question itself.

He noted that the ONS did not simply ask respondents: “Are you transgender?”

Instead, it asked: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” This was done following consultations with LGBTQ lobby groups such as Stonewall, he claimed.

Biggs said the authors “never thought about how a Bangladeshi grandmother or a Hungarian plumber will think about this question”, adding: “I’d be disappointed if a master’s student at Oxford made that error.”

He said: “I think the ONS has got to release more detail that will allow us to probe further. They owe it to us, having screwed up.”

Biggs said that up to a third of responses could have been affected, although he stressed it was impossible to provide a reliable estimate without looking at the responses in more detail.

He said the question produced “anomalies” such as Newham and Brent topping the list for proportion of transgender population by local authority, at 1.5 and 1.3 per cent respectively.

Brighton and Hove, home to the country’s longest-running Trans Pride celebration, was in 20th place, on 1 per cent.

Alice Sullivan, a professor of sociology from University College London who has also expressed concerns about the question, said: “It’s such a shame because it’s such a missed opportunity. This should have been the gold standard. It’s so hard to understand how the ONS could fail ‘questionnaire design 101’ in this way. It is particularly important when asking about a small minority group. It’s mind-blowing to me.”

The ONS maintained that the 2021 census results on its gender identity question were “broadly consistent with NHS data collected in the same year”. “However,” a spokesman added, “while the question on gender identity was tested thoroughly, it is possible that individual responses were affected by different interpretations of the question and we will do more work to understand whether that was an issue.

“As this is the first time that the census has asked this question, and as a relatively small proportion of respondents reported having a gender identity different to their sex at birth, analysing the nature and quality of the responses to this question is more challenging than with most other census variables.”

When asked about claims that the question was formulated with input from LGBTQ groups, he said: “We developed and tested various different formulations of the gender identity question, ultimately using the version that was shown to give the most accurate results. We intend to publish more research on this topic later in the year.”

The Office for Statistics Regulation was approached for comment.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cffadd74-d889-11ed-80bc-e358583c5d62 (Paywall)

also https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/12/transgender-population-uk-inflated-ons-census/

Nothing to see here, just a very progressive minority community, Stonewall totally didn’t try to inflate the number of trans people by how they asked the question.
 
Yet another "cost ov' livin'" grifter making a video crying about how her allotment which has supposedly fed 1600 people has supposedly been "salted", her GoFundME already has £170k donated with contributors including Gary Lineker and I imagine she'll be on every talk show in the country within a few days and achieve Captain Tom levels of sainthood. She already has a rabid army of followers on Twitter doxxing and harassing anyone who dares to question her highly suspicious story.

I hate these grifter cunts so much.
 

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Just stop Oil faggots decided to protest by jumping on the table during a couple of snooker matches at the Crucible:
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Notice the difference between the fucking useless female ref on the left, who sees the guy coming and does literally fuck all, vs the male ref on the right who grabbed the cunt until security got there.
 
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Just stop Oil faggots decided to protest by jumping on the table during a couple of snooker matches at the Crucible:
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Notice the difference between the fucking useless female ref on the left, who sees the guy coming and does literally fuck all, vs the male ref on the right who grabbed the cunt until security got there.
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I love just how foul the language got in that room. Normally you don't get to hear exactly what the public think of them but more than a few people in there got their profanities well and truly out.
 
I'm so sick of these bellends. After the Grand National and now this, it's increasingly clear that the news media are essentially the publicity officers for these clowns.

When a streaker runs out on the pitch they cut away to different camera angles and don't show it. This discourages future streakers because they know they won't get the attention they seek.

For all these stories, sky news, the BBC et al do the exact opposite.

Fuck Journoscum.
 
East_Clintwood said:
Notice the difference between the fucking useless female ref on the left, who sees the guy coming and does literally fuck all, vs the male ref on the right who grabbed the cunt until security got there.
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it's almost like there's a difference between male and female.
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Who's going to tell the BBC?
 
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