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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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They will have to make do with a clap (not *the* clap). When they try to buy food at Asda, just clap at the checkout, take their bags and walk out.
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From what i understand with relatives in NHS the nurses were offered a deal when they walked out in the past only to get fucked over in the small print, so it was more or less always going to be the case they turned down the first gov offer.

Junior doctor strike tho made things actually run much faster as hospitals funnily enough because they always acted as middle men in the chain and without them decisions were made instantly...they may have fucked themselves over in the long run lol

Another thing to add is how fucked wages are in the NHS and the sheer amount of managers i worked in a hospital breifly and to a team of 5 we have 6 managers, if the NHS purged most of those retarded cunts in management things would run so much smoother and free up huge amounts of wealth.
 
Update on the Sudan situation:

The EU got most of its citizens out
The USA more or less said "Fuck em" don't care if they die
The Turks tried running convoys to evacuate there own citizens only to drive into the active conflict and get shot up
The UK needs a Special Committee meeting, I am guessing so they can try and create contracts to sub contractors to "rescue" citizens, either way UK gov is being either lazy or retarded so nothing new, however they were quick to use special forces to rescue gov workers and apparently (don't know if true) Sudanese workers that worked at the embassies or hide there.
 
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Richard Sharp: BBC chairman resigns over report into appointment

Inquiry finds Richard Sharp breached the governance code for public appointments.
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BBC chairman Richard Sharp has resigned after breaking rules over dealings with Boris Johnson ahead of his appointment.
A report found Mr Sharp created the appearance of a conflict of interest by not fully disclosing his knowledge of the ex-PM's personal finances.
His position was scrutinised after it emerged he tried to secure a high-level government meeting for a businessman offering Mr Johnson financial help.
Mr Sharp defended his conduct but said he did not want to be a distraction.
A critical report led by barrister Adam Heppinstall was published on Friday, after months of speculation about Mr Sharp's position and a row about BBC independence.
The probe was set up after reports in the Sunday Times revealed Mr Sharp, a close associate of Mr Johnson, had played some role in the PM's personal finances at the same time as he was seeking to secure the senior BBC job.
In late 2020, Mr Sharp sought to arrange a meeting between Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and Sam Blyth, a distant cousin of Mr Johnson who had offered to support the PM financially, after reading press claims he was struggling to make ends meet.

The ex-investment banker and Conservative Party donor had already applied for the senior BBC job when he approached Mr Case and was appointed a few months later.
The report found he had failed to disclose two potential perceived conflicts of interest: first, by telling Mr Johnson he wanted to apply for the BBC role before doing so; and second, by telling the PM he intended to set up a meeting between Mr Case, the country's most senior civil servant, and Mr Blyth.
It notes that Mr Sharp does not accept the first conclusion, but he has apologised for the second, though described it as "inadvertent and not material".
The report found "there is a risk of a perception that Mr Sharp was recommended for appointment" because he sought to assist the PM in a private financial matter "and/or that he influenced the former prime minister to recommend him by informing him of his application before he submitted it".
It described his involvement in Mr Johnson's private financial affairs as "very limited" but concluded that it should have been declared anyway - even though the meeting between Mr Case and Mr Blyth did not subsequently take place.
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Honestly the best part of the rest of the article is the chart they came up to try and explain the connections between every one involved:
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PLOD nigger cops are faggots who suck Paki cocks and ram their own cocks inside children because they are pedophiles, or as these subhuman toothless limey fucks call them, PAEDOPHILES. NONCES. Every single British pig fuck cock suck child fuck nigger loving Paki rape gang supporting dirty little fascist needs to be put against a wall.
 
Got some fun little figures.

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Albanian PM says UK having a 'nervous breakdown' over Channel migrants

Edi Rama said the UK was in 'a bad place' and having a 'nervous breakdown' over the flow of thousands of people from the Continent in small boats.
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Albania's prime minister has launched another scathing attack on the UK for accusing his country of fuelling the Channel migrant crisis.

Edi Rama said the UK was in 'a bad place' and having a 'nervous breakdown' over the flow of thousands of people from the Continent in small boats.

He has already attacked the language used by Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Commons last year when she blasted 'Albanian criminals' sneaking into the UK.

Speaking at an economic event in Greece, Mr Rama said the UK was targeting his nation 'to feel like they still have muscle'.

'We have fought against [this language] and now we see they have calmed down a bit. But they are going through something of a nervous breakdown as a country so we have to understand them,' he told the Delphi Economic Forum, according to the Independent.

'It is not something we can't understand, we have to understand them. They have lost a lot of points of reference and they are really in a bad, bad place.'

It came as a Border Force boat carrying 80 migrants picked up in the Channel arrived in Dover this morning.
Figures showed that at least 13,000 Albanians entered Britain on small boats last year - just under a third of all arrivals.

Mr Rama signed a bilateral deal with Rishi Sunak in December designed in part to help tackle illegal immigration.

But he has made no secret of his distaste for remarks made by Ms Braverman and others.

But figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday show 75 per cent of Albanian nationals who have arrived illegally have since committed at least one criminal offence in the UK.

And 30 per cent of Britain's class-A drug trade is now controlled by Albanian gang lords.

Albanians – many of whom arrived illegally in Britain on lorries and small boats – are now the biggest contingent of foreign prisoners in UK jails, with 1,582 locked up here.

This year so far, 93 Albanians have been jailed – at a cost to the taxpayer of £17million – for serious offences such as murder, rape and kidnapping and burglary, including 14 in the past week.

They include six killers, one rapist, a kidnapper, five class-A drug dealers and 56 cannabis growers.

Of the 93 jailed, at least 53 came to the UK illegally, either on small boats or in the back of lorries.

Albanians made up the biggest proportion of the more than 45,000 people who crossed the Channel illegally last year.

At one stage last summer, they represented 60 per cent of arrivals in small boats.

Thousands sought asylum, even though Albania is considered 'safe and hospitable' by the Foreign Office.
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Bonus Daily Mail silly image in case anyone wondered whether Rama would make that muscle comment to Rishi's face.

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He'd have to kneel down to do so but somehow I doubt he has any qualms.
 
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