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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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Adam Smith-Connor becomes first Christian convicted for thought-crime in modern Britain​


A Catholic MP today criticised magistrates for convicting an British Army veteran for praying outside an abortion clinic.

Adam Smith-Connor was found guilty at Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court of violating a so-called buffer zone around an abortion clinic.

Although he was praying silently, the court ruled that he had manifested “disapproval of abortion” by clasping his hands and bowing his head.

Magistrates imposed a conditional discharge of two years and ordered Mr Smith-Connor to pay prosecution costs of £9,000.
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Poor Old Ostrich said:
From what I've heard this is a regular thing that happens every election and technically isn't interference if they're not in a management role. It's a reciprocal agreement to gain practical experience rather than actually make much of a difference.
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I hope they get abused by a host of American stereotypes: verbally mogged by a fat hick a la Ralph, chased by Amish in a buggy, threatened with a baseball bat by some working-class Italians, etc etc
 
Free the Pedos said:
I hope they get abused by a host of American stereotypes: verbally mogged by a fat hick a la Ralph, chased by Amish in a buggy, threatened with a baseball bat by some working-class Italians, etc etc
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You're assuming they ever actually interact with anyone. This is just a junket. They'll spend a day "coordinating" with some local teams, a day giving conference workshops, and then spend the rest of the time cruising the cocktail circuit. Or just crawl every bar in a five mile radius of their hotel.
 
The Secret Barrister account on Twitter has been knocking around for years. In between claiming that UK barristers regularly work for less than minimum wage, and complaing about various governments turning off the legal aid tap. He's highlighted some inside habits of the profession such as the 'theatrics' they put on in court for the benefit of clients that don't know any better, and gives insights into how many court cases are settle behind the scenes.

He's got a huge audience I suspect largely from people that have never had any real interaction with the UK legal profession (other than conveyancing etc) or the courts. His takes on the 2 tier policing 'conspiracy theory' are what you'd expect. Recently a guy who believes that prison doesn't work, was celebrating the imprisonment of the wife of a tory councillor.


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He got his back up after people started looking up the sentencing history of the judge in question Judge Melbourne Inman KC. Racist etc.

I searched through his twitter and couldn't find any mention about the British KC's travelling to Hong Kong to prosectute pro democracy activists. Or the standard of legal representation that the Post masters got (80 plus trials and every single defence barrister didn't notice the obvious problems with the Royal mail case)

The UK legal profession are a very insular bunch who enjoy the privilege of controlling entry into their profession. I think they're really starting to fuck up, so Secret Barrister is one to watch, even if it's just for his trantrums.
 
I bought his(?) book back in the day, and I regret it. I think it went to a charity shop. Needless to say, I try out books in advance of purchase these days and avoid such mistakes.
 
AnOminous said:
Sometimes you need another bad guy. I think Zombie Cromwell is the guy for the job.
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I have to disagree. Cromwell would be right at home in Starmer's brave new order, where everything joyful is banned for the plebs, while the wealth of the nation is used to feed the lavish lifestyles of hypocritical scolds.
 
teriyakiburns said:
I have to disagree. Cromwell would be right at home in Starmer's brave new order, where everything joyful is banned for the plebs, while the wealth of the nation is used to feed the lavish lifestyles of hypocritical scolds.
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Yes, but he did have the right ideas about the Irish and the Scots.
 
@Trig.Point , @Big Judge Cock . "The Secret Barrister" is a slimy piece of work. I don't know what his/her actual legal qualifications are and I'm not in the legal profession to claim authority myself, but back in the day he wrote some stuff on Tommy Robinson that even I could see wasn't truthful or legally supportable. Overt lies. Was about Tommy's coverage of those dudes outside court, iirc but a long time ago.

Anyway, pretty sure you've both reached your own informed conclusions on the guy but just adding a voice for the benefit of all, that he's an extremely partisan person writing for a very Midwit audience. I honestly wouldn't be shocked if one day it's revealed he's a 45 year old paralegal, rather than a barrister.
 
teriyakiburns said:
I have to disagree. Cromwell would be right at home in Starmer's brave new order, where everything joyful is banned for the plebs, while the wealth of the nation is used to feed the lavish lifestyles of hypocritical scolds.
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The establishment has brainwashed people into hating Cromwell and ruined his reputation because there is nothing they fear more then a Cromwell 2.0
Pride's purge didn't go far enough
Cromwell was a great red-blooded Englishman who didn't take no shit from Fenians, Jocks nor Swamp Germans
You guys cry about him banning Christmas but he only did it because he knew the woke bullshit that would result from Christmas
Tell me in all honesty, do you really believe we'd have to deal with fags, trannies and niggers today if Christmas was still banned?
He is Britain's greatest king
 
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