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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

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.

 

[Coccxys]

The whole being the party of immigrants is causing some problems for Labour currently.





His front bench did a number on him by now toeing the line but it looks like the grassroots are really taking a bat to him.

Not that it matters since they'll all just vote red when it comes round to it even if they ran on a policy of ethnically clensing the UK but still amusing.

 

[St.Davis]

And had committed the party to asking a nation with a mode IQ below a hundred about the effects and consequences of withdrawing from a political and trading bloc that it was apparent even then the majority of them did not understand the operation of.

Are you suggesting that leaving the EU was the incorrect move?

 

[Futaba]

Penny Mordaunt, she does not actually seem insane

She thinks trans women are women and has a convicted pedophile as a brother. She did look great with that big fuck off sword though.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Well that sucks about believing delusion and pedo bro but she does look like a cool dark souls boss rather than the normie look pajeet.

 

[Vesperus]

Are you suggesting that leaving the EU was the incorrect move?

I think it's fair to suggest that Enoch Powell, to pick a name at random, would have made a better job of it.

If the referendum had mentioned Boris heartily shagging everyone up the arse while achieving fuck all things might have gone differently. But hey, we're best mates with Rwanda now, and it looks like we're moving the middle east conflict to Oxford, which will give the IDF the weekend off.

See? It's not all bad....

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Personally, I would have thought Penny Mordaunt, she does not actually seem insane.

She actually is insane. She's fanatically pro-troon. She would most likely be PM at the moment if not for that.

May was the last good leader

May was by no stretch of the imagination a good leader. She caved into her rebels rather than confronting them, as Boris did. She tried to please everyone and ended up pleasing no one. (Plus there's the whole Modern Slavery Act debacle.)

Cameron promised the EU Referendum hoping to scoop up UKIP votes while expecting another coalition government where he could say "oh the lib dems will only collaborate with us if we drop the referendum"

”lol lets ask plebs about Europe” was in the Tory manifesto not just for the true blue swivel-eyed battalions, but also because the ‘coalition negotiations’ had to have some sort of paper sacrifice in them that the Tories could be seen to give up to the LibDems in return for their support. The Brexit referendum was so obviously that sacrifice that you could see that from space.

Lol. From the Lib Dem manifesto 2010:

The European Union has evolved significantly since the last public vote on membership over thirty years ago. Liberal Democrats therefore remain committed to an in/out referendum the next time a British government signs up for fundamental change in the relationship between the UK and the EU.

The Lib Dems only became opposed to a referendum once they lost it. The referendum was there to neutralize the Farage issue. If they'd traded it away, UKIP would still have been still nipping at their heels at the next GE.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Truss was the last good leader and last hope of UK turning the ship around from heading towards disaster. But since the banks and moneymen didn't want the UK to threaten the economic might of the EU, be energy independent from the yanks and be the best western-country to attract attention she was booted.

The media and their bootlickers painted Truss and Kami kwasi as useless and clueless when they were anything but, only to be replaced by WEF puppets; Jeremy Cunt and Rishi 'paki tony blair' Sunak.

 

[Vesperus]

Truss was the last good leader

Citation Needed.

 

[teriyakiburns]

And had committed the party to asking a nation with a mode IQ below a hundred

This is not a meaningful statement unless the mode is somewhere in the low 80s. Last I checked, it's over 99, even with the influence of so many pakis tugging at the most common scores.

I think it's fair to suggest that Enoch Powell, to pick a name at random, would have made a better job of it.

That wasn't the question though, was it. Yes, the exit negotiations were a (deliberately sabotaged) clusterfuck, compounded by the Turk's incompetence and raging ego, but leaving was still the correct decision to leave.

 

[St.Davis]

I think it's fair to suggest that Enoch Powell, to pick a name at random, would have made a better job of it.

If the referendum had mentioned Boris heartily shagging everyone up the arse while achieving fuck all things might have gone differently. But hey, we're best mates with Rwanda now, and it looks like we're moving the middle east conflict to Oxford, which will give the IDF the weekend off.

See? It's not all bad....

I agree that it was handled abysmally (intentionally). Admittedly I'm being a little naive saying so, but it was a perfectly good idea and had it been handled correctly we'd be far better off... But even with the pigs' ear it turned out to be I'm still happy we're divorced from the continent. It's a good first step. (even if we tripped)

 

[FuckedOffToff]

I like Kemi Badenoch. She might need a few years before getting a stint as leader, though, just to mature, come into her own. She doesn't seem insane.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

I like Kemi Badenoch. She might need a few years before getting a stint as leader, though, just to mature, come into her own. She doesn't seem insane.

I expect the leadership election after the election to be Kemi vs. Cleverly, with Kemi winning it.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Truss was the last good leader and last hope of UK turning the ship around from heading towards disaster. But since the banks and moneymen didn't want the UK to threaten the economic might of the EU, be energy independent from the yanks and be the best western-country to attract attention she was booted.

The media and their bootlickers painted Truss and Kami kwasi as useless and clueless when they were anything but, only to be replaced by WEF puppets; Jeremy Cunt and Rishi 'paki tony blair' Sunak.

I liked Truss' policies and do think they would've worked out but I wouldn't call her good because she completely fumbled putting them into action. As things stand all she did was make everything worse.

I expect the leadership election after the election to be Kemi vs. Cleverly, with Kemi winning it.

Unless Boris runs again its going to be Mordaunt, Kemi and Cleverly both likely appeal to the party members more but its not them they need to win over.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Unless Boris runs again its going to be Mordaunt, Kemi and Cleverly both likely appeal to the party members more but its not them they need to win over.

There is zero chance that Penny "trans women are women" Mordaunt gets within 100ft of the leadership. It absolutely is the party members that need to be won over, the next election won't be for four or five years. And after years of the leadership doing things the members hate, why would they choose someone who believes things they hate?

 

[Moja Zemlja]

And after years of the leadership doing things the members hate, why would they choose someone who believes things they hate?

Because outside of a Boris comeback the MPs will never give them a leader they want because of how hard Truss dropped the ball. I don't see Mordaunt becoming leader because people want her but because she'll be the better of two evils.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Because outside of a Boris comeback the MPs will never give them a leader they want because of how hard Truss dropped the ball. I don't see Mordaunt becoming leader because people want her but because she'll be the better of two evils.

Against who is Mordaunt the lesser of two evils?!

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Against who is Mordaunt the lesser of two evils?!

Hunt?

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Hunt?

Okay, I'll grant you that. I was sort of assuming that he wouldn't contest it. If it was Mordaunt vs. Hunt, I'd have a hard time deciding which I'd want to lose more.

 

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[Whoopsie Daisy]

Citation Needed.

Her economic policy and direction she was going to take the country. The media attack on her and the whole "Truss lasted longer than a cabbage" stories were humiliating on purpose; they didn't want anyone else trying her ideas.

I liked Truss' policies and do think they would've worked out but I wouldn't call her good because she completely fumbled putting them into action. As things stand all she did was make everything worse.

She wasn't allowed to put them in to action. The banks, after truss has been ousted, even admitted that they screwed with the value of the £ to make her look worse.

If she had have succeeded, the yanks wouldn't have been able to sell oil and gas to Germany, as they would have bought it from us. She was going to go ahead with fracking; generating massive revenue for the UK as we could have had cheap gas and sold the excess to Europe, again cutting out the yanks, and she was going to greenlight on-shore wind energy. However, when Sunak said "no" to it, the greens were awfully quiet.

On top of that, the policies of "visitors buy goods without paying VAT", would have boosted our failing retail sector and the incentives she offered to foreign investors to invest in British business would have boosted our manufacturing sector.

Retail, Manufacturing, Energy and cost of living would have been sorted. No energy crisis, leading to fewer government funds going to energy payments, leading people to have more money. An increase in manufacturing and retail demand, creating more jobs which would raise wages and give people a better standard of living.

But we can't have that because the EU and Yank billionaires wouldn't have made a few more million to throw in their scrooge-mcduckian vault.