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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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I wish people wouldn't call them "Asian grooming gangs". It's not Chinese people doing this nonce shit, and in fact they have the right idea in China: they send them off for re-education and training so they can learn a trade and learn Mandarin and the local culture and be useful to the country as well as keeping their own culture and religion for their own personal time. Sort of like Prevent was supposed to be before it got cucked and ended up as the police chasing anyone who wasn't 100% on board with troons.
It's not even all south Asians either, Sikhs and Buddhists here are pretty based and sick of being lumped in with the paedos.
 
Hongourable Madisha said:
I wish people wouldn't call them "Asian grooming gangs". It's not Chinese people doing this nonce shit, and in fact they have the right idea in China: they send them off for re-education and training so they can learn a trade and learn Mandarin and the local culture and be useful to the country as well as keeping their own culture and religion for their own personal time. Sort of like Prevent was supposed to be before it got cucked and ended up as the police chasing anyone who wasn't 100% on board with troons.
It's not even all south Asians either, Sikhs and Buddhists here are pretty based and sick of being lumped in with the paedos.
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Only Ameriburgers think Asian means 'Chinky'. In Britain, Asian means 'Pajeet'.
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
Only Ameriburgers think Asian means 'Chinky'. In Britain, Asian means 'Pajeet'.
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"Asian" is only official speak, though. If it's on the BBC and it says "Asian" then everyone know what they mean but the typical person who is not an official just uses "Pakistani/Paki". Yes, all Bongs know what the media means when they say "Asian", but that doesn't change that they trying to obscure things by using it.
 
It's the weird woke racism of low expectations. "You can't expect Achmed to behave any better, his people are all savage rape monsters, and that's super valid." As if holding everyone to the same standard of "don't rape/murder kids" is somehow bad. Though tbf the same people do often excuse white nonces too, but they use different excuses for that, they focus more on "sex positivity" and "queer theory" and shit like that, it's not the same justifications.
 
teriyakiburns said:
What Blair inherited from the Tories was a dying industrial base, collapsing infrastructure, massive government debt, a shortage of practically skilled workers, and a population spike caused by immigration. His response to this was to massively increase immigration, spend even more government money on things that didn't resolve the infrastructure problems, divert the workforce into pointless university courses, and regulate much of the remaining industry out of existence. He then followed up by creating what was, at the time, the most intrusive police state the country had ever seen, and signed us up to a prolonged military conflict while cutting the size of the military. Blair cannot be given even the slightest benefit of the doubt when it comes to just how shit this country has become.
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I welcome you to YouTube the spitting image episode from when Blair got into power. It paints a very different story of the economy
 
Quick bit of news roundup.
An
employment tribunal member has been given a formal warning for tweeting that the collective noun for Conservatives should be a ‘tumour’.



Jeremy Purkis had been sitting on ‘a strongly disputed and politically sensitive case’, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said.



The case concerned an anonymised Christian teacher who reportedly said she was sacked over her opposition to a school’s transgender policy. She argued ‘her dismissal had been unlawful, discriminatory and due to her religious beliefs’ and was bringing a case against a primary school and Nottinghamshire County Council.

During the hearing, the representative for the claimant unearthed tweets of a political nature made by Purkis, who is a non-legal member of the Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and a former GMB union officer.

The tweets ‘called into question his impartiality, integrity and propriety as a judicial office holder’, the JCIO said in a statement.

Purkis had responded to a tweet which said, 'Only atheists should be allowed to run for office' with: 'Damn right, you won’t catch us killing in the name of our non-god'.

In other posts, he responded to the question, ‘What’s a good collective noun for Tories?’ by saying ‘a tumour of Tories’ and a ‘cess pit of Tories’.

As a result of the tweets coming to light and the possibility of bias, the tribunal panel recused itself after six days of an eight day hearing, at significant cost and inconvenience to the parties and the public purse, the JCIO said.

Purkis explained that ‘rather than an attack on organised religion his tweet was intended as a light-hearted comment on the misuse of religion by politicians to fuel conflict’.

He fully accepted his intention was unclear in the comment and open to misinterpretation and he offered his apologies for the expense and any potential disrepute that his actions caused to the tribunal service.

The senior president of tribunals - taking into consideration his explanation and apology - issued Purkis with a formal warning for misconduct.

Mr Purkis, who apologised for the expense and any potential disrepute that his actions caused to the tribunal service was given a formal warning for misconduct.
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Private GPs are side hustling by writing sick notes for workers for £25-£55 per note.
An undercover reporter for the Mail on Sunday managed to get sick notes from seven different doctors online after telling each of them that she was suffering from stress or anxiety.
A doctor, who was contacted on the website Updoc, advised the journalist to take two weeks off after she also wrote that she would “really benefit from time off work due to the hot weather and I want to be spending time at the beach”.
The Australian-owned company Updoc offers a £24.95 monthly subscription to patients wanting 'unlimited medical letters'. It claims to have helped more than 10,000 Brits to sign off work with medical sick notes.
Updoc assures it gives doctors 'competitive remuneration' and 'flexible working hours' in return for issuing sick notes.
Dr Ravikumar Ravindran wrote the sick note for the undercover reporter, claiming he had “reviewed” her medical history and “determined that she is unwell and unfit for work”.

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Dr Ravindran explained he wrote “a couple” of sick notes a week through Updoc. He stated his motives behind doing so as “helping the public because they are not able to get appointments with their GP when they have serious health problems”.
Other websites were found to be offering similar services, such as The GP Clinic. This company charges a slightly higher rate of £55 but provides a same-day service with a “money back guarantee” if one of their consultants does not approve signing a sick note.
Dr Mohammed Sulaiman Shah runs the company, said he would be conducting an audit of its process in response but added that: “We took the statement in good faith, recognising it as a genuine expression of need.”
Another GP from Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust, who worked for a website called Home2Lab - owned by SomDoc - reportedly signed a sick note for two weeks after the reporter submitted a 30-second video saying she wanted time off for stress.
The website charges £44 for same-day sick notes and says “no appointment required”.

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A spokesman for the Home2Lab website said its services “are fully in line with General Medical Council guidance” and that “doctors generally work in good faith and are not in the habit of disbelieving patients”.
Those seeking to be signed off work through the NHS can usually receive a note from their GP free of charge. However, earlier this year the previous prime minister Rishi Sunak vowed to put an end to what he called Britain’s “sick note” culture.
The number of so-called sick notes issued by GPs has increased hugely over the past few years, from 8.7 million in the 12 months to March 2021 to 11 million in the equivalent period to March 2023, according to NHS data. This is thought to be largely due to the Covid epidemic.
Mental and behavioural disorders were among the most common reasons for workers looking to be signed off work.
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And a brief glance at Scotland
SNP MSP John Mason has been stripped of the party whip after "completely unacceptable" social media posts about the conflict in Gaza.
The move comes days after External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson was pictured standing alongside Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to the UK, Daniela Grudsky
Many SNP figures are highly critical of Israel’s conduct in the Middle East and the diplomatic encounter prompted an internal backlash.
Mr Mason said he was "disappointed" by his suspension, which came after he wrote on X that the country's actions in Gaza did not amount to "genocide".


In response, a spokesperson for the SNP Chief Whip said: "To flippantly dismiss the death of more than 40,000 Palestinians is completely unacceptable.
"There can be no room in the SNP for this kind of intolerance."
The spokesperson added the SNP Group would now meet to discuss the matter, with a recommendation of a fixed period suspension, for what they described as a "utterly abhorrent comment".
The withdrawal of the whip means Mr Mason is effectively expelled from the SNP with immediate effect and must sit as an independent MSP until it is restored.
Following the move the Glasgow Shettleston MSP posted a statement on Facebook which outlined his desire for peace in the region.
The statement acknowledged "too many" lives had been lost and that "many people feel that Israel has moved from a position of self-defence to seeking revenge".
Mr Mason added: "However, I personally do not believe that Israel has tried to commit, has committed, or is committing genocide.
"They certainly have the ability to kill many more Palestinians than they have done. That is not to say that the loss of life already is not too many.
"And we should remember that it is Iran and Hamas who have stated that they want Israel wiped off the map… that sounds more like an intention of genocide than anything Israel has said or done."
On Wednesday Scotland's First Minister John Swinney defended Mr Robertson's face-to-face meeting with the deputy ambassador, which took place on 8 August.
A spokesperson said Mr Robertson had “reiterated the Scottish government’s position in calling for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in Gaza”.
They added that the external affairs secretary had called for “the unconditional release of all hostages and the opening of safe routes to allow more humanitarian aid to reach the people of Gaza.”
But former minister Kevin Stewart branded the meeting a mistake.
The Aberdeen Central MSP posted on social media, external, external: “I hope Angus Robertson also demanded an immediate ceasefire, castigated the IDF for bombing hospitals and schools and told you that Israel should comply with all of the UN Resolutions that have been passed over decades”.
That was reposted by Ivan McKee, a serving Scottish government minister.

John Swinney posted a statement online, external, acknowledging that some felt a meeting was “not appropriate”. But he stood by the decision to accept the Israeli request.
The first minister explained that he saw it as an opportunity to convey the Scottish government’s “consistent position on the killing and suffering of innocent civilians in the region.”
Mr Mason also met with Ms Grudsky and said they had a "useful discussion about what Israel hopes to achieve in Gaza".
He added: "As UK learned in Ireland, to achieve peace we must talk to each other...including to people we disagree with."
The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
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The number of people who died due to drug misuse in Scotland has risen sharply.
National Records of Scotland (NRS) data for 2023 revealed that 1,172 people died - up 121 on the previous 12 months, which represents a 12% increase.
The figures, however, are the second lowest number of drug misuse deaths since 2017.
The Scottish government said the level of drug misuse deaths in the country remained “hugely concerning”.

The increase follows the first significant drop in fatalities in several years in 2022 when there were 1,051 drug-related deaths, at the time seen as an early sign that progress was finally being made.
But the latest figures remain far higher than the 244 deaths in 1996 when comparable records began.
Scotland continues to have a far higher rate of recorded drugs deaths than other European nations, including other parts of the UK.
They are 2.7 times as high as the 2022 rates for England and Northern Ireland, and 2.1 times as high as the 2022 rate in Wales.
Scotland averaged 277 deaths per million people aged 15-64 in 2023.
In comparison, the next highest countries were Estonia with 95 deaths per million people and Norway with 86 deaths per million, according to the most recent data available by the European Union Drugs Agency covering the year 2022.

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Opiates/opioids - such as heroin, morphine and methadone - were the most common drugs connected to deaths, being implicated in 937 deaths - 80% of the overall total.
The report also confirms psychoactive substances such as benzodiazepines are posing significant dangers.
The number of deaths involving bromazolam rose from 54 in 2022 to 426 last year.
These types of drugs are used to treat anxiety disorders, insomnia and seizures.
Deaths involving synthetic opioids known as nitazenes rose from just one to 23 in 12 months.
There has been a sharp rise in cocaine overdoses with the drug a factor in 479 deaths in 2023 - an increase from 371 deaths in 2022.
NRS says cocaine was a factor in 41% of deaths — up from 6% 15 years ago.
Figures hit a record overall deaths high of 1,339 in 2020.


The data revealed that people living in the most deprived areas of Scotland were more than 15 times as likely to die from drug misuse than in the least deprived areas, while the age that people die from drug misuse has increased over the past two decades.
Those aged 35-54 were most likely to die from drug misuse in 2023 and men were twice as likely to have a drug misuse death as women.
After adjusting for age, Glasgow and Dundee had the highest rates of drug misuse deaths while East Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire had the lowest.
The rate of drug misuse death was also above the Scottish average in Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and North Lanarkshire.

Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross called the new data "shocking and shameful" and said that drug deaths were the country's "national shame."
He said: "These awful statistics highlight yet again the urgent need for John Swinney and the SNP government to finally give their backing to the Right to Recovery Bill."
Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the "devastating news" should prompt the Scottish government to strengthen frontline services and introduce new drug checking facilities, while Gillian Mackay of the Scottish Greens said the "root causes" of drug addiction needed to be targeted.
The Scottish government's health secretary Neil Gray told BBC Scotland News that the amount of drug deaths was "unacceptable" and there was a "recognition" in government that more needed to be done.
He said: "It’s a very complex picture. There is no escaping the fact that the drug death pictures are profoundly worse here than in other parts of the UK, and indeed in other parts of Europe.
"I take responsibility for that. We can also see from other countries that have embarked on a public health journey, like Portugal, that where there is investment in the likes of safer consumption rooms then you can make a difference."
Mr Gray cited safer consumption rooms in parts of the country and more drug-testing facilities as being part of the Scottish government's plans to improve the situation.
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Hongourable Madisha said:
It's the weird woke racism of low expectations. "You can't expect Achmed to behave any better, his people are all savage rape monsters, and that's super valid." As if holding everyone to the same standard of "don't rape/murder kids" is somehow bad. Though tbf the same people do often excuse white nonces too, but they use different excuses for that, they focus more on "sex positivity" and "queer theory" and shit like that, it's not the same justifications.
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X is the real racist is a dumb argument and does nothing but empower your enemies by validating their world view. You can't beat the left at mind reading who a real racist is and it's stupid to give them legitimacy. Racism is a valid and scientific world view and anything less is leftist propaganda and should be dismissed with full contempt.

Morethanabitfoolish said:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1935057/gp-sick-note-nhs-workers
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Brown hands wrote those sicknotes.
 
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, there is literally no difference between an Indian and Pakistani. That's literally just some bullshit we made up back in the day, after drawing an arbitrary line down the country to stop the Muslims and the Hindus fighting eachother.

A Pajeet is a Pajeet is a Pajeet.
 
Shiverpeaks said:
X is the real racist is a dumb argument and does nothing but empower your enemies by validating their world view. You can't beat the left at mind reading who a real racist is and it's stupid to give them legitimacy. Racism is a valid and scientific world view and anything less is leftist propaganda and should be dismissed with full contempt.
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This. The real argument is: Even the left cant deny that they're backwards savages. They just lie when it's convenient.
 
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Label me Mad at the Internet, but my nan is one of those old people, and it's just so enraging that this has happened. Luckily she has us to help with stuff, but thinking of other old people who will be alone this winter and now they won't even have heating on top of that. Feels like they're trying to just kill off the old people at this point, which is funny given they were a protected class during the covid times.
 
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Brown hands wrote those sicknotes.
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I'll concede that the named doctors do not sound like mayo ghouls. But if you think you could not get the average white employee at any of these places to write a fake sick note when there were no consequences involved please tell me where you're employed. Most places I've ever worked people will always take the path of least effort rather than follow sensible rules like "don't do that shit" and that's true whether their skin complexion is milk or not.
 
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