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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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A woman who worked at a migrant hotel has been murdered by a one of the "guests"; she was stabbed in the back of the neck with a screwdriver and died three days later.


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A teenager believed to have arrived in the UK on a small boat has been charged with the murder of a woman working at an asylum seeker hotel.

Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, died after she was stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver at Bescot Stadium railway station on Sunday night.

Deng Chol Majek, 18, from Walsall, was initially arrested and charged with attempted murder.

Ms Whyte died in hospital three days after being placed on life support and Mr Majek was charged with murder.

The teenager is said to have crossed the English Channel in a small boat with no documents in July before applying for asylum, according to The Sun.

Ms Whyte worked at the Park Inn by Radisson hotel in Walsall in the West Midlands, where the teenager was reportedly staying.

It is understood that she finished her shift at 11pm and was planning to catch the 11:21pm train back home to Walsall when she was stabbed in the back of the neck.

Ms Whyte’s family paid tribute to “the most selfless person” who was “brave, quirky, funny and always there for anyone who needed it”.

In a statement, a spokesman for the family said: “There is not enough paper in the world to even begin to write a tribute for you, but no one deserves it more.

“The weird thing about this devastating loss is that we now need to navigate life without you, but how? If your short life will teach anything, it’s to cherish each moment with those you love as tomorrow is never guaranteed.

“You are so strong, a fighter and no matter what happens, we as a family will always be united for you. We will love and miss you for now, for always and forever.”

Rhiannon Skye Whyte died in hospital three days after being placed on life support
Rhiannon Skye Whyte died in hospital three days after being placed on life support Credit: Express & Star / SWNS
Nicholas Coates, deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS West Midlands, said: “The prosecution has issued an indictment and Deng Chol Majek will now face counts of murder and possession of an offensive weapon following a stabbing at Bescot Stadium railway station.”

He added: “Our thoughts remain with her friends and family at this incredibly difficult time.”

Det Ch Insp Paul Attwell, British Transport Police’s senior investigating officer, said: “We have specialist family liaison officers supporting the victim’s family and our thoughts remain with them at this incredibly difficult time.

“I would like to reassure the public that this is an isolated incident and an 18-year-old man has now been charged and remanded in connection. We are not seeking anyone else.”

Mr Majek was remanded in custody and will appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Nov 19.
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Deng Chol Majek, 18, from Walsall
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Don't you just love how in an article where they admit he is an immigrant they pretend he's from somewhere where his only connection to the place is it's where he was housed when he entered the country before murdering someone 3 months later.

"He's from Walsall." No he fucking isn't.
 
Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, died after she was stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver at Bescot Stadium railway station on Sunday night.
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Ms Whyte worked at the Park Inn by Radisson hotel in Walsall in the West Midlands, where the teenager was reportedly staying.

It is understood that she finished her shift at 11pm and was planning to catch the 11:21pm train back home to Walsall when she was stabbed in the back of the neck.
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He didn't chimp out in the hotel, he followed her to the train station.
In my country, one foreigner killing a native would be justification enough to sink all boats approaching Britain.
Two deaths and the showers are built.
Three deaths and the home country gets levelled.
 
Kier's new definition of people who aren't working class, better known as those he's going to tax, just dropped.

Sir Keir Starmer has attempted to define who "working people" are, amid renewed scrutiny of his tax plans ahead of next week's Budget.
Labour promised at the general election not to increase taxes on working people - but the party did not define who it had in mind.
The government is looking at increasing tax on asset sales, such as shares and property, freezing income tax thresholds, and changes to inheritance tax.
The prime minister insists working people will not be hit by these changes - but he has struggled to define who exactly he is seeking to protect from tax rises.
The Conservatives have accused Labour of "reinventing" what counts as a working person, as the Budget approaches.
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In an interview during a Commonwealth leaders' summit, the prime minister was asked whether those who work, but get additional income from assets such as shares or property, would count as working people.
He replied that they "wouldn't come within my definition" - but warned against making "assumptions" about what that meant for tax policy.
He said he thought of a working person as someone who “goes out and earns their living, usually paid in a sort of monthly cheque" and who can't "write a cheque to get out of difficulties".
Speaking afterwards, his spokesman sought to clarify that those with a "small amount of savings" could still be defined as working people.
This could include cash savings, or stocks and shares in a tax-free Individual Savings Accounts (ISA), he suggested.
But ministers have been reluctant to translate these comments into numbers.

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The prime minister accepted that his own definition was "broad".
Those people he had in mind, he added, were those who were “doing alright” but had an “anxiety in the bottom of their stomach" about making ends meet if something unexpected happened to their family.
The issue has taken on a central political importance ahead of next Wednesday's Budget, Labour's first since 2010, amid a row over whether the party is sticking to promises it made in its election manifesto.
During a BBC interview back in the UK, Treasury minister James Murray was asked repeatedly to give a more precise answer.
When asked whether someone who owned shares or sold a business could be a working person, he said he would not "get into too many hypotheticals".
"We're talking about where people get their income from," he said, adding ministers wanted to protect people who "get their income from work".


As well as the broad pledge not to raise taxes for working people, Labour's manifesto specifically ruled out raising rates of income tax, along with National Insurance and Value Added Tax (VAT).
But ministers have not ruled out continuing to freeze income tax thresholds beyond 2028, a policy they inherited from the Conservatives, dragging more people into higher bands over time as wages rise with inflation.
And they have also not ruled out making employers pay National Insurance on their contributions to workers’ pension pots, which the Conservatives have branded a "tax on work" that will indirectly hit employees.
Labour peer Lord Blunkett, a cabinet minister in the Blair government, said the “logical outcome” of the move was that “employers will pay less".
He also cautioned that he was unsure of the government's definition of a working person, adding: "We’ve got to find a different phraseology".
Other rumoured tax rises include to capital gains tax, which is paid on profits made by selling assets including shares and property other than a main home.
The government is also planning to increase the amount of money it raises in inheritance tax, which is paid after around 4% of deaths.
Multiple changes to the tax, which currently includes several exemptions and reliefs, are under consideration.
The most recent official statistics, external show that in 2020, 11% of British households held shares in UK companies, with 12% holding stocks and shares ISAs.
According to government data from 2021, just under a third of landlords in England were full-time employees, with 1 in 10 employed part-time.
Around 15% were self-employed, whilst over third (35%) were retired.
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
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Reading some of them. There's no support for any of this. The few Starmer simps present are getting shot to pieces. The BBC have apparently realised the monkeys paw situation they got themselves into, not least because these changes are going to bite a huge chunk bout of their final salary pensions and other employment benefits. I have no doubts they'll be running daily attacks on him after the budget.
 
At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if by 2030 that Labour declares Britain is now global property and native citizens must become slaves as 'reparations'
 
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A woman who worked at a migrant hotel has been murdered by a one of the "guests"; she was stabbed in the back of the neck with a screwdriver and died three days later.
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This is another thing I know I and others were talking about at the start of the ‘putting up illegals in hotels’ saga. Most of the illegals are young men from countries where women have a very rough deal. Many, perhaps most of the hotel staff doing cleaning and general work will be women. Recipe for disaster. They are putting the entire workforce of chambermaids, cleaners, restaurant staff etc at very high risk, it’s unconscionable
 
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Kier's new definition of people who aren't working class, better known as those he's going to tax, just dropped.
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"I'm not out of touch with the population. People still get paid in cheques, right?" - Kier Starmer.

I'm looking forward to the budget next week because the media will be caught with their pants down. If the budget is disastrous for the working and middle-class earners, while making Britain look bad, but allows Starmer to keep his job, then Liz Truss was coup'd by international bankers.
 
It bugs me that he casts having savings or even owning shares as something that isn't for "working people". Owning stock in a company you work for used to be a very positive thing and were I running a business that employed lots of people I'd be tempted to try and promote that.

When they start targeting inheritance, they try to cast it as wealthy people unfairly getting an advantage. The real victims of inheritance tax are families no longer able to build up generational wealth. It IS possible to get out of poverty in a single generation, it is also possible but harder to really change your station in life, say from Working Class to Middle Class - to do that typically takes 2-3 generations. Inheritance taxes keep people down.

They also make it incredibly slow to claim your inheritance as I understand it. Like a year waiting for the tax office to process your paperwork or more.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
"I'm not out of touch with the population. People still get paid in cheques, right?" - Kier Starmer.

I'm looking forward to the budget next week because the media will be caught with their pants down. If the budget is disastrous for the working and middle-class earners, while making Britain look bad, but allows Starmer to keep his job, then Liz Truss was coup'd by international bankers.
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It sounds like they’re going to for everyone’s rent up too.

I hate this fucking government, lads.
 
Roast Chicken said:
A woman who worked at a migrant hotel has been murdered by a one of the "guests"; she was stabbed in the back of the neck with a screwdriver and died three days later.
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Good! I hope it was painful, slowly dying for three days. Race traitor degenerate. Fat, dyed-hair loser, and helping to overthrow the country by inviting the niggers in and caring for them.
Burn in Hell!
I hope one of the niggers she loves so much shits on her grave.
 
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Good! I hope it was painful, slowly dying for three days. Race traitor degenerate. Fat, dyed-hair loser, and helping to overthrow the country by inviting the niggers in and caring for them.
Burn in Hell!
I hope one of the niggers she loves so much shits on her grave.
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A lot of these hotels are in places where there are very few other jobs. You’re asking a lot of someone with a family to support to give up her job when the hotel she works at gets turned into a migrant one.
 
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A lot of these hotels are in places where there are very few other jobs. You’re asking a lot of someone with a family to support to give up her job when the hotel she works at gets turned into a migrant one.
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If she can't afford to have kids, she shouldn't have them. Having kids that you can't afford is nigger behavior, and when enough of the population does it, the country becomes a third-world shit hole.
Don't give me that. "Oh, she was just an ordinary innocent woman trying to mind her own business and raise her KEEEeeeeeeiDsss; she has pink dyed hair + FAT + UGLY + fake smile. She's a perfect match for a hardcore liberal who's destroying the country speed-run style with her shit political beliefs and the work she does on a daily basis.
I've met thousands of women like these in the UK, and they're all the same, like a template used in the matrix copied and pasted everywhere, all with the same personality and sense of humor and interests and it's fucking nauseating. England does not need any more of these worthless coronation street watchers; they give other countries legitimate criticism of us.
I do hope that the kid is not a worthless degenerate like her mom and that they understand the reason why their mother died, but let's be realistic, they probably are...
 
K!w!Fartz said:
If she can't afford to have kids, she shouldn't have them.
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This makes no sense. Presumably she could, because she had a job in a hotel and worked at it.
The hotel then got turned into a migrant one. That’s not her fault. Maybe she hated it, felt scared every day and was looking for another job? If she gives up the job she then can’t afford to have kids and you don’t want her to do that. So what is she supposed to do?

The fault here lies with the migrant scum who stabbed her, the government who bring these people in and the chummy relationship between hotel owners and government which lines their pockets. Not some poor sod who just had her hotel job turn from elderly bingo tourists to rapey stabby military aged illegals.
 
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It bugs me that he casts having savings or even owning shares as something that isn't for "working people".
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It, savings and inheritance are all used with the disguise of "we're targeting the rich" when what it tends to be used for more is as you say, preventing people from bettering their lot in life through hard word and careful saving. Because they know that a lot of their voters spend without thinking and see everyone who has earned anything by not doing so as having "cheated" somehow it often works.

This time they are once again going to target predominately the middle just as they always do and a lot of people are going to remember why Labour are a shit show.
 
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