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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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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.

 

[judegdubey]

Two men sentenced after attacking innocent man during Darlington disorder

But don't worry these protesters got away pretty lightly, after all someone charged with

violent disorder, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and possession of an offensive weapon.

would normally be looking a minimum of 2 years even with nothing to do with the riots, but these future doctors were let of with leniency not normally seen given to the native population....

Oh yea almost forgot, their not the native population!

At a hearing at Teesside Crown Court on Monday 2 September, the judge sentenced 19-year-old Ahmed to ten months detention at a young offenders' institute, while 21-year-old Uddin was jailed for 12 months

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2024-09-05/two-men-sentenced-after-attacking-innocent-man-during-darlington-disorder

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[Midwit]

I think one of the most important things he touches on is how radical the change was, and how quickly the establishment managed to bury the past. We may joke about all those "diversity built Britain" posters, but most people born from the mid-90's onwards will have absolutely no recollection of a country that was >90% native-born, with a competent healthcare system and unregulated handgun ownership, even though that's how it was less than three decades ago

It's terrifying how effective they were at making 1997 "year zero" of the New Britain, and how the old world only really remains in the memory of those who came before it

Watch any show made in the 70s or 80s and it feels like a completely different country.

Refrigerators, ovens and washing machines that are for sale now are badly and cheaply made, with a life expectency of 5 years or so.

The shower I had put in two years ago is already starting to go, for some reason it thinks that me putting it at the middle temp on high means 10 minutes of uncomfortably hot followed by 30 seconds of ice cold.

Oh yea almost forgot, their not the native population!

Why the fuck is a 19 year old being sent to young offenders? If he can drink and drive (but not ride a motorbike with an engine between 125 and 400cc and more than 40hp, our motorbike laws are ridiculous) he can go to big boy prison with his mate.

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

But don't worry these protesters got away pretty lightly, after all someone charged with

would normally be looking a minimum of 2 years even with nothing to do with the riots, but these future doctors were let of with leniency not normally seen given to the native population....

Oh yea almost forgot, their not the native population!

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The woman who facebooked angy messages got longer in jail than that.
What the actual fuck.

We should be paying close attention to this new party Corbyn has set up with his Muslim MP pals. Lots of voters will get behind them due to the anti-Israel arms policy, in addition to the obvious huge pool of Muslim voters.
There is now a party comprised of mainly Muslims that may stand a chance of gaining power at the next election. That's absolutely terrifying.

 

[JPG]

Now been deleted from the comments but here's some lovely financial times diversity:

https://x.com/thales4c/status/1832205306459242666

 

[Free the Pedos]

Where'd be best to go to where the problems wouldn't follow close behind? An EU country? A tax haven, like New Jersey or something like that? I don't have anything I really specialize in so there'd need to be a low bar for entry. Would also prefer to take older family members with me.

I have a family member who constantly praises New Jersey as they lived there. Over there, you have to pay a £5 deposit to book an appointment with the doctor and they say it would be a good implementation over here to clear up the waiting list and stop people who just want free medicine they can get over the counter. Another family member disagrees, saying that poor people wouldn't get to see the doctor with that implementation.

Spoiler: US Sperging

NJ has a really high cost of living FWIW. Anything on the coasts is going to be high, but there are plenty of secondary cities that have a good quality of live and lower COL, to say nothing of many towns where that's the case. Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Cleveland, etc, are great.

We call that 'deposit' a co-pay. It's generally not a deterrent to seeing the doctor from what I've heard. If you're really poor you're on government healthcare and get to see the doctor for free...which is why doctor's officers that take government healthcare are always clogged up with trashy people looking to score meds.

 

[Overdrive]

Spoiler: US Sperging

NJ has a really high cost of living FWIW. Anything on the coasts is going to be high, but there are plenty of secondary cities that have a good quality of live and lower COL, to say nothing of many towns where that's the case. Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Cleveland, etc, are great.

We call that 'deposit' a co-pay. It's generally not a deterrent to seeing the doctor from what I've heard. If you're really poor you're on government healthcare and get to see the doctor for free...which is why doctor's officers that take government healthcare are always clogged up with trashy people looking to score meds.

I think he meant the island of Jersey, not the state that is named after it (top quality British education showing itself there once again).

 

[Free the Pedos]

I think he meant the island of Jersey, not the state that is named after it (top quality British education showing itself there once again).

lol, shows what I know. Thanks.

 

[Overly Serious]

-nobody gave a shit about warning other residents, everyone could have got out if they had

I've rarely seen that as a reason given for the deaths in any of the media coverage. At least not baldly stated in a clear way.

The poor quality of new builds is going to become a major problem down the road, and no official body seems to be interested in addressing it, probably assuming it's going to be a long term problem. However 10 years from now when banks start to regularly refuse mortgages on homes, it's going to be the equivalen of the leasehold scandal x 10.

Is it really that bad? If so it doesn't bode well for the mass building that Labour are pushing.

Incidentally they can't even deal with the leasehold scandal because the fucking financial sector has been telling the government that they've leveraged leaseholds to such an extent it'll be too much of a shock to they system to make even minor changes, the same civil servants that sabotaged the tories proposals are going to do the same for labours (which is why I suspect Angela Rayner has been given the job)

Never really seen why someone would willingly buy a leasehold. In blocks of flats maybe - there are complications in such a scenario. But for a house? Seems a bad idea. Then again I understand people were actually badly advised by their solicitors so maybe not their fault. Had no idea we were in another Sub-Prime style leverage situation though. It just gets worse and worse.

have you brit bongs enjoyed the nuclear level meltdown Tucker Carlson caused every faux rightwing boomer on twitter to have by suggesting that Churchill wasn't the greatest man to ever live?

There was a famous political cartoon from way back called The Two Churchills. It had a statue of Churchill on a big column looking down at the real Churchill disgraced and sitting at the base and the statue saying: "Never mind, chum, it's me they'll remember."

Carlson can say what he likes, it's all the same to me.

Refrigerators, ovens and washing machines that are for sale now are badly and cheaply made, with a life expectency of 5 years or so.

I had a "Hotpoint" washing machine go wrong literally within two months of going past its warranty. Managed to fix that problem myself but several things all started to go wrong with it around that time. I was extremely suspicious about the timing of all these faults. Whilst buying the super high end luxury appliances is probably wasteful unless you're rich, I do try and avoid buying the cheap stuff for anything I want to last. It's getting harder and harder to find that nowadays as every company gets bought for the name and then their manufacturing processes are gutted. If someone is willing to put a 10yr warranty on something, that's a good sign.

They cut corners and had too many sockets on spurs

Saw a kitchen fitter put five sockets on an unfused spur once. Did the plastering over it all as well! Luckily caught it and though I was tearing my hair out a clever sparky figured out a way to salvage it with minimal hole cutting. But bloody Hell.

 

[ThrobbingWalloper]

Unionists in Glasgow throwing the red hand of ulster has everyone shouting nazi. Probably a little of both.

The counter protest had middle aged women banging drums and danger hairs in masks representing lgbtq for hammas.

Not my edits to the image.

 

[Otterly]

I've rarely seen that as a reason given for the deaths in any of the media coverage. At least not baldly stated in a clear way.

The media coverage of it changed as the time went on. The guys name was behailu kebede. The coverage went from his flatmate saying he’d packed a suitcase and couldn’t carry it out, to him being a fearless immigrant citizen who warned everyone and switched off the circuit breakers while fleeing. The fridge freezer is referred to by brand in all later statements, it was a hot point, they were obviously trying to pin it on the brand rather than unsafe usage or whatever. I doubt the truth will ever be known. Only seven of the dead were actually British, so 90+% of the people living in that one block were of immigrant origin. London is a foreign country and they do things differently there

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[Whoopsie Daisy]

Keir Starmer says government will have to be unpopular

"Popular decisions aren’t tough, they are easy," he added.

Ctrl+f 'Immigration' - 0 results. lol. Lmao even.

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[teriyakiburns]

Keir Starmer says government will have to be unpopular

'Tough decisions are tough decisions': Starmer defends winter fuel payment cut

With this level of insight, I can rest easy knowing the country is in safe hands.

 

[Kane Lives]

Keir Starmer says government will have to be unpopular


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Real mask off time lol. How much damage will Two-Tier Kier do before he inevitably get ousted?

 

[Overly Serious]

Keir Starmer says government will have to be unpopular

I remember this being the platform Labour campaigned on. They said: "If we get in we will be unpopular and do things you don't like. In fact, you'll probably hate us". They're absolutely honouring their election promises.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

With this level of insight, I can rest easy knowing the country is in safe hands.

He said he won't make popular decisions because that would be easy. A popular decision like, oh I don't know, curbing immigration? Can't do that, according to Kier, that would be easy and popular.

Real mask off time lol. How much damage will Two-Tier Kier do before he inevitably get ousted?

He won't be ousted. No PM or Leader says the truth out loud unless they know they're safe in their position.

I remember this being the platform Labour campaigned on. They said: "If we get in we will be unpopular and do things you don't like. In fact, you'll probably hate us". They're absolutely honouring their election promises.

He has been giving these warnings for a month or so now. One can only assume, incorrectly or otherwise, that the October budget will be a bloodbath for services.

I don't remember him campaigning to reform (read: gut and sell off) the NHS. But a large part of his userbase will dribble the "buh 350 million nhs brexit bus", while the service is turned into an American stlye private system.

Fun times ahead.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I remember this being the platform Labour campaigned on. They said: "If we get in we will be unpopular and do things you don't like. In fact, you'll probably hate us". They're absolutely honouring their election promises.

And yet they don't seem to connect this with the fact that they lost votes overall. I find it interesting that he's explicitly claiming the idea as his own now, rather than allowing Reeves to take it, especially given how stringly he opposed the tories when they mooted the same thing.

He said he won't make popular decisions because that would be easy. A popular decision like, oh I don't know, curbing immigration? Can't do that, according to Kier, that would be easy and popular.

Populism is nazis! YOu don't want to be nazis, do you?

He won't be ousted.

I disagree. As I said already, the party is split and is already engaged in a low-key civil war, while the government is already suffering scandals from the very day of taking office, which is something of a record. Kier doesn't have the wherewithal to hold the party together in the long term. He'll obviously last until October, but whatever budget is coming will surely piss off the hard left and the gender-crits in the party, who form a large enough bloc to require more than token appeasement. His leadership will likely not last longer than 12 months afterwards.

 

[Overly Serious]

I don't remember him campaigning to reform (read: gut and sell off) the NHS. But a large part of his userbase will dribble the "buh 350 million nhs brexit bus", while the service is turned into an American stlye private system.

And thus concluding what Blair started.

Though they'll dress it up differently.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I disagree. As I said already, the party is split and is already engaged in a low-key civil war, while the government is already suffering scandals from the very day of taking office, which is something of a record. Kier doesn't have the wherewithal to hold the party together in the long term. He'll obviously last until October, but whatever budget is coming will surely piss off the hard left and the gender-crits in the party, who form a large enough bloc to require more than token appeasement. His leadership will likely not last longer than 12 months afterwards.

Your basis for your idea is sound and solid, you have every right to be confident in your assessment. Unfortunately, I don't share you optimism that Labour and the party will play by the rules.
Powerful outside influences want the NHS privatised, they want the country broken, to be sold off piece by piece and they want the Lords - those who do still hold some legacy power, to be abolished.
If Kier is the lynchpin to achieving those goals, then I have no doubt that the outside influences will keep him in position to ensure they obtain what they are looking for.

I truly believe, In my tinfoil-riddled mind, that Sunak was forced out because he wouldn't do what was needed. Not because he cared about the country, but because he just wanted an easy life, a good C.V. and to disappear to his billionaire lifestyle with little disruption as possible. Sunak was selfish, but not evil. Starmer is just evil. He even looks like a caricature old-school, communist, name-taking state apparatchik. The kind of guy who would count your grain in one hand and sign your execution warrant in the other.

 

[FedPostalService]

Real mask off time lol. How much damage will Two-Tier Kier do before he inevitably get ousted?

When he is ousted the Left of Labour take over and seriously tank everything. I hate to say

 

[A-Logato]

Honestly I don't see Kier being ousted any time soon and if he is, it'll be token appeasement and they'll just replace another head of Hydra with another talking head. What he is doing right now is exactly what his own party and Labours preferred voting base wants him to do. The only issues he's going to have internally is with the hard lefty's in Labour and it's been made very clear from when he first took power that he wanted to flush out the more vocal ones like he did to Diane Abbott.

What ever this October budget brings, his party will keep on trucking with it's globalist and anti England agenda and he'll still be around as getting rid of him now or even within a year will be seen as weak and go more towards showing how illegitimate Labours government as a whole really is.