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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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Overachiever said:
Could you tell me where these proper Britons are because all I see are malicious aristocrats, drunk boomers, single moms and children without a future? Despite loving English culture in the past, I really cannot muster anything but utmost contempt for the modern United Kingdom. You gave away the Empire for the comfort of your ruling class and third worlders who will abandon you for greener pastures. How can you be proud of being an ex-hegemon in freefall?
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We "gave" the Empire away because we were bankrupt from saving the world from Germany twice and America decided that only America could have an Empire and "encouraged" us to grant independence to all the colonies.
 
Overachiever said:
Could you tell me where these proper Britons are because all I see are malicious aristocrats, drunk boomers, single moms and children without a future? Despite loving English culture in the past, I really cannot muster anything but utmost contempt for the modern United Kingdom. You gave away the Empire for the comfort of your ruling class and third worlders who will abandon you for greener pastures. How can you be proud of being an ex-hegemon in freefall?
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The good ones learned pretty damn quick to keep their presence offline and the media as a whole isn't interested in showing anything other than misery. They know the UK is falling, so just keep to small groups and don't use shit like social media to post anything the Bobbies could potentially ruin their lives over. Most of us are learning as many trade skills and ways to not rely on a dying system.

We're not proud. We're just as sickened as you are. We're just biding our time and making sure we can protect each other when the inevitable happens.
 
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The woman who allegedly threw the drink told The Sun she did so because Farage is "an ar*e".

She added: "He just is. I don't know why. Maybe his parents raised him that way."

Her parents must be so proud that their daughter is a sex worker because they, as her parents, raised her that way.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Nah, she's got the sort of face that doesn't hold its looks much past thirty. I reckon she's about five years away from the wall. She'll look like this soon enough.
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So what you're saying is I have about five years to have her lips wrapped around my shaft.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
It must kill the yanks to know that no matter how bad Britain gets, it's still the best country on Earth with the best people on the planet. Seethe more, turn-coat fucks. No other country can queue, peacefully, respectfully, while their bank crashes and their money runs out, all while moaning about how long the queue is.

I know shit is bad now, but proper Britain and proper British, are just the best.
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We know Britain is shit, but Abroad is absolutely dreadful

Overachiever said:
This lead to you antagonizing the continent
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>implying that antagonizing the continent isn't a worthy end in itself

isalaide said:
The milkshaking was a gayop. She appears to be on Farage's payroll.
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Why do people fall for such obvious bullshit? Obviously the police are going to get involved, and obviously they're going to find out her real name. If it were a gayop, it'd unravel in all of five minutes.
 
Eekum Bokum said:
We "gave" the Empire away because we were bankrupt from saving the world from Germany twice and America decided that only America could have an Empire and "encouraged" us to grant independence to all the colonies.
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You were already starting to go bankrupt when WW1 happened. Your empire was almost completely unindustrialized aside from the UK proper. On paper it was grand but the actual net worth was minimal.

Like come on, how much tax revenue were a bunch of Pajeet subsistence farmers generating, and how much needed to be spent to keep them in line? Shit, even the South African diamond mines were practically a net loss on account of the massive war debts they needed to cover.
 
Snekposter said:
Your empire was almost completely unindustrialized aside from the UK proper. On paper it was grand but the actual net worth was minimal.
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SAAR please do the needful and remove your post, it is well known that the bloody bastard bitch benchod Britishers stole $40 trillion gorillion of our wealth from proud united India
 
Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
Why do people fall for such obvious bullshit? Obviously the police are going to get involved, and obviously they're going to find out her real name. If it were a gayop, it'd unravel in all of five minutes.
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It would unravel but would the police publically ever admit it? the higher ups are corrupt in favour of the establishment, which Farage is, the average copper is pro-conversative or farther right, and Reform are promising 40k new officers over term if elected. The tories got the police into their current state and Labour are full of defund types. Why would the police want to make Farage look bad?
 
Tragon Dirtle said:
It would unravel but would the police publically ever admit it? the higher ups are corrupt in favour of the establishment, which Farage is
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The Establishment hates Farage and hates Brexit. If you think the Establishment is Conservative, you're out of date by about 50 years.

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the average copper is pro-conversative or farther right
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It doesn't matter what the rank-and-file think, the brass are all New Labour types.
 
Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
The Establishment hates Farage and hates Brexit. If you think the Establishment is Conservative, you're out of date by about 50 years.


It doesn't matter what the rank-and-file think, the brass are all New Labour types.
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Farage is a calculated noisemaker who is embarrassing but will ultimately brook no change, like Trump. They don't like him but he is literally a useful idiot to them. We're still in 14 years of a conservative government and you think the establishment isn't conservative?

Parts of the establishment like Brexit and parts don't, depending on what they personally benefit from; the ones that no longer have to follow EU rules like it a lot, like Dyson who immediately benefitted from moving abroad for cheaper labour after literally campaigning for it.

It also does matter what the average police officer think if they don't want mutinies and affected service. The police enforce the peace, they need them to do their jobs, in as much as those jobs assist the establishment and not things like investigating the average person's burglary.
 
Tragon Dirtle said:
We're still in 14 years of a conservative government and you think the establishment isn't conservative?
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Yes. The Conservatives have done nothing to change the politics of the Establishment. If anything it's got worse - devolution has seen them handing even more power to their opponents.
The Establishment is pro-diversity, pro-LGBT (especially T), pro-immigration, pro-Islam, pro-technocracy, and anti-Brexit. There's an awful lot of decent Conservatives out there, people like Kemi Badenoch, but no matter what they do or say the Establishment (especially the Civil Service) doesn't change. That's the real tragedy of British politics.
 
Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
Yes. The Conservatives have done nothing to change the politics of the Establishment. If anything it's got worse - devolution has seen them handing even more power to their opponents.
The Establishment is pro-diversity, pro-LGBT (especially T), pro-immigration, pro-Islam, pro-technocracy, and anti-Brexit. There's an awful lot of decent Conservatives out there, people like Kemi Badenoch, but no matter what they do or say the Establishment (especially the Civil Service) doesn't change. That's the real tragedy of British politics.
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...the conservatives have done nothing to change the politics of the establishment because they are the establishment. Kemi Badenoch is the child of immigrants wanting to pull the ladder up behind her; while it might temporarily work on immigration (which I doubt) her 'fuck you got mine' will continue the current boomer mindset problems in other areas.

The centre right / establishment has always been pro-immigration (which leads to pro-diversity and pro-islam) because it's a source of a cheap workers. They're pro-technocracy because it eliminates the need for workers by automating everything. They suggested brexit to quieten the far-right backbenchers but were happy to use it to bring in third world immigrants; that's not 'hates brexit'.

The establishment doesn't change because it doesn't need to change. We're in a cycle of either voting for the establishment (conservative) or voting for something slightly to the left, getting mad when that doesn't fix everything straight away, and then voting for the establishment again. When Labour actually represented the labouring classes, and was pro-worker, it was a genuine threat to the establishment and they had to make the appropriate changes to see off the threat. Now they've largely neutralised it and they don't. Being anti-immigration because it affected the value of the working class was historically a left position.
 
Farage hates the establishment and loves himself. He loves being loved by the people he likes and loves being hated by the people he hates. It just so happens that his love and hate line up with most peoples' love and hate of the establishment.
Farage isn't on 'our' side, he's on his side, which just happens to be the same side we're on, so it works out.

Reform may even have the option to form a coalition with the Lib Dems, which would be preferable to tory or labour rule.
 
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