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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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Overly Serious said:
Prostitution isn't actually illegal in the UK despite what Mumsnet would like. Only some of the circumstances around it like pimping ("living off immoral earnings") or soliciting on the streets.
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I'm not sure if this is the case in the UK too, but so-called "pimping" laws here are often abused. I generally appreciate the concept of punishing abusive exploiters and sex traffickers, which the majority of "pimps" are, but they've also been used to persecute prostitutes and even people who just associate with them, like a roommate who shares rent getting charged with "living off the proceeds," something that makes no sense at all.

That said, I'd agree with such laws if enforced reasonably, and agree that streetwalking behavior has seriously deleterious impacts on society.

I once lived in a neighborhood where prostitution was rampant, and the local biker gang (yeah seriously it was that kind of neighborhood) chased them off. It went from crack vials crackling underfoot and needles and used condoms strewing the sidewalk (and don't ask me about the time someone took a mammoth shit in the stairwell of my building), your car constantly being broken into, and shit like that to a reasonably tolerable couple of blocks.

Street prostitution brings an absolutely abhorrent class of people into wherever it's allowed.
 
There are 350 Tory MPs, and there wasn’t a single one he was prepared to make Home Secretary. You have to love it. The governance of the UK would be fucking hilarious if it was happening to some other cunts
 
>war in Ukraine
>war in the Middle East
>China still making noises about Taiwan
>PM appoints peer to be Foreign Secretary, as if it were the fucking 19th century

Make it make sense
 
RACISM said:
I'm surprised he's done this. I thought she was basically there to pander to actual nationalists (and also psyop them into thinking because she's brown, not all browns are bad).
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Not nationalists, but she was there to pander to the right of the party, certainly. This is really bad for Sunak - the PM, Chancellor, Foreign Secretary, and Home Secretary are now all weak wishy-washy men. It'll be interesting to see whether he gets away with it (I suspect he will).
 
The biggest surprise is that Women are getting beaten by Men at being thoughtless unprincipled wet blankets.
Guess Men are just better at everything.
 
I thought he might fire her. But Cameron - fucking Cameron????!!!?? This is some WWE/Anime level Surprise Villain Returns stuff.

Incidentally, does anyone have a link to / actual text of the article she wrote? It's talked about more than actually read and I want to see what she was ostensibly fired for with my own eyes. I think I found it but it was behind a paywall and I'm lazy.
 
Overly Serious said:
I thought he might fire her. But Cameron - fucking Cameron????!!!?? This is some WWE/Anime level Surprise Villain Returns stuff.

Incidentally, does anyone have a link to / actual text of the article she wrote? It's talked about more than actually read and I want to see what she was ostensibly fired for with my own eyes. I think I found it but it was behind a paywall and I'm lazy.
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It reminds me most of when Brown brought back Mandelson. That was dumb too.

Is it this? https://archive.is/BqMGg
There's nothing really objectionable in there...
 
I was a bit surprised. Suella might be getting slated by the media but outside of that she is very popular with more traditional Tories.

Damaging for Rishi that he brought her back to sack her again. Damaging to offload a popular figure within the party. Even more damaging to bring back Cameron.

He's even weaker than I thought.
 
I'm not really sure why he would do this. Which potential voters is this meant to win over? They won the last election on a pretty conservative mandate - i.e. pro-Brexit, low immigration, reasonably low government spending, reasonably low taxes. They then delivered the highest ever government spending, the higher ever immigration, and tax rises. Now he fires the only conservative in the cabinet and brings his WEF mates on board to help him captain the sinking ship.

When Starmer wins next year I predict we will see basically no difference, besides them being more pro-tranny. Hopefully they get their shit together for the 2029 election.
 
Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
It reminds me most of when Brown brought back Mandelson. That was dumb too.

Is it this? https://archive.is/BqMGg
There's nothing really objectionable in there...
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Islamists are holding the UK hostage, that's why.
Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law? I have spoken to serving and former police officers who have noted this double standard.
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The reason why he appointed her in the first place was because she held enough votes for him to get in. He basically promised her a position for that security. He is always getting letters of no confidence I think I saw 29 floating about. He basically secured a vote of no confidence.

The peer hire of Cameron of all people makes no fucking sense whatsoever, Cameron is hated by most Conservatives because he has no likeable qualities.
 
Feathers McGraw said:
I'm not really sure why he would do this. Which potential voters is this meant to win over? They won the last election on a pretty conservative mandate - i.e. pro-Brexit, low immigration, reasonably low government spending, reasonably low taxes. They then delivered the highest ever government spending, the higher ever immigration, and tax rises. Now he fires the only conservative in the cabinet and brings his WEF mates on board to help him captain the sinking ship.

When Starmer wins next year I predict we will see basically no difference, besides them being more pro-tranny. Hopefully they get their shit together for the 2029 election.
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You're too optimistic.

There's always room for more CRT like Scotlands mandatory reading for all children recently announced and greater work to "deconstruct islamophobia".

I personally can't wait to see the United Emirates of Al-Brittani welcome the entire population of Palestine as refugees.
 
I can only presume sacking Braverman to bring in Cameron is some kind of misguided attempt at appealing to the party membership by having a recongisable face back who achieved electoral success for the Tories, ignoring that Braverman was well liked among the membership and Cameron wasn't.
 
I think the Cameron return is a sign Rishi is done with politics. He knows he's losing, now he's looking for work elsewhere which means getting hold of the slimiest Tories imaginable while also spending the remaining time making decisions that benefit some of the most monstrous individuals out there at the expense of the average voter.

Then Kier will make it worse.
 
Another aspect to consider is that the PM is nearly always succeeded by the Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, or Chancellor. So Sunak is effectively trying to appoint James Cleverly as his successor by this, which won't go down too well.

He's shit-scared of doing anything involving the culture war (as if it's optional). There will be more talk at the election about trannies than taxes.
 
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