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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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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.

 

[K!w!Fartz]

This poster who's mad at the hotel worker for being stabbed to death by a migrant clearly just hates white/western women and that supersedes any other values, loyalties, or principles he may claim to have. There's a very high chance he's a shitskin himself, that kind of mindset is quite typical of them.

100% wrong.

 

[pot of sneed]

The girls have hairlines so far back and look like they’re forty when they’re 20. Too much makeup? Previous generations did that. It’s really odd. They all look twenty years older

Croydon facelift. I notice it a lot in women who pull their hair up into tight buns, absolutely fucks the roots.

 

[FedPostalService]

Croydon facelift. I notice it a lot in women who pull their hair up into tight buns, absolutely fucks the roots.

An ex did that. She stopped in the end as it really fucked up her hair line, luckily in grew back but she didn't like her curly red hair for some reason even though other women would fawn over it.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Playing devil's advocate to an extent here, but.....
Why do other countries oppose Americanisation ? ( AmericaniZation ?! )
Is it because through media, industrial and miliraty intervention they fundamentally change the traditional culture of other countries ?
I loathe the bastardisation of the English language. The fact that the BBC insists on using the American "two time" rather than "twice" now and has done everything they can to normalise it makes my skin crawl.
American "fooseball" is now all over the sport pages. It's being pushed increasingly by the BBC.
The glorification and worship of black culture is another huge issue too. It encourages the youth to be uneducated and make no useful contribution to society. Where did BLM come from ? America. Only those with the power of individual critical thinking saw that for what it was straight away. I truly hope all the cucks taking the knee at the time ( Premier League footballers still, under the guise of antiracism ) look back and cringe. They deserve to be ridiculed.
Historically Americanisation used to be anti-communist, but under the current "Bidenomics" ( the amalgamation of words, another suspiciously American trait - too lazy to use two words correctly ) it appears to be encouraging the same kind of socialism that Reeves and cohorts will employ at the next budget. So to my mind, it's not even that we're getting what were historically the good parts of Americanisation.
I'm with Terry Thomas....

American preoccupation

Linguistic experts are drafted in by archaeologists to more accurately determine when an invasion and conquering of a country occurred. They use linguistic experts because the invaders quickly turn to settlers within a few months of the initial invasion; a good example close to home is the Saxon invasion of Britain in the North, or, in the sarff, the Norman invasions.
In each of these cases we see tautologies - Norman and Saxon words in British town names, and local words being amalgamated with, or erased by, the new language of the invaders.
By using these recorded names, or when towns were formed using new words, archaeologists'' chronologies line up more accurately. A handy tool for observing the impacts on the native flora and fauna as a result of the invasion.

The Americanisation of our words is an invasion of our culture and heritage. BLM and Woke ideologies erasing historical facts of native Brits, or changing them as to be downright insulting, Nigger-worshipping culture thrust on us when we are a country of classists, not racists, and the general retardation of our youth - fluoride can't be blamed for this one.
Because the americans are generally fat, stupid and the have the strategic forethought of a cat with a carrier-bag on its' head, they can't physically invade and instead poison the minds of foreign nations via the internet.

Consider the mind-control, brainwashing and psychological propaganda required to convince natural born Brits of all colours and creeds, to get into IRL autistic slap-fights over American elections, millenia-old wars between jews and muslims and a slavic argument. Those international topical peccadillos could be forgiven if those same people were able to debate their beliefs with reasoned arguments, and not just spout tiktok and reddit jargon.
A brainwashing so complete that the invading hordes, scrounging foreigners and lazy dossers down the street, all of whom shit up the local community, are of no care or consequence to the average retard. American politcs and Media talking points though? That's some real shit that requires families to fall-out and for men and women alike to isolate, alienate and abandon partners and romantic interests because pocket-idiotbox said so.

All of that is before we touch upon how the American government has attempted to, and sometimes sadly succeeded in, bending the will of Europe and Britain for its' own gain at great cost to both parties.

 

[f4t2h7gc]

I mean its harsh but i think it's true.
I hope that I'm wrong, but I feel like there's an 80% chance the kids will not have their eyes opened by this experience and resent the right people.
It truly does suck that those kids don't have a mother now and they don't deserve that. I never said anywhere in any of my posts that they deserved to have their mother killed.

i just meant that they;ll go on in life believing the diversity is our strength shit and assosate with the wrong people willing all the time and be at an elevated risk of befalling the same fate as their mother.

its sad that the kids will have to grow up with out a mother now very suddenly without getting to say good bye, but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree so they probably don't resent the niggers that stabbed her and are condemned to repeat the mistakes she made.

Your posts are a case study in brain rot. You inferred the political leanings of a murdered woman from her photograph and have little to no empathy for her children because she might be a libtard. Are you retarded?

A woman and a mother is dead. We don't know what her ambitions were or what life she wanted for her children, what she was doing in her life, or whether she was happy in her situation. A vulnerable woman was brutally killed for no reason. It's that simple. A family has been destroyed because of it. If you don't understand how your comments have pissed people off then you should probably get on the waiting list for that autism diagnosis.

Regarding that: It's not just young people, but also our managerial class, from what I recall, I believe MPs from each party were asked who their political inspirations were, and while you did get your occasional Harold Macmillans and such, many of them seemed keen to name recent American politicians such as Barack Obama. Americanisation is afflicting every part of our society, it's all quite grim.

Rammstein's Amerika gets more prescient by the day. America has many virtues, but I don't want to see the UK become America lite. We already eat American food at American chain restaurants, are beholden to American corporations, watch American TV, listen to our politicians tickle the balls of American politicians. The 'special relationship' appears to ensure that the US has a one way cultural foothold in their English speaking neighbour at the expense of our own culture.

Apologies for the double post. Don't send me to Starmer's gulag.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

For all the talk on the American right about Tik-Tok being a chicom plot to turn western children into effeminate lunatics, Hollywood, the music industry, Facebook and Instagram have been far worse.

This wouldn't bother me in the slightest if they kept it at home, but due to sharing a language we are having the full weight of their east coast Weimar republic forced upon us.

California delenda est.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Okay, we need a bit of lighter news. Here's some.

https://archive.ph/TQeQ1

A Glasgow man has been arrested on the M6 after police allegedly discovered gold bars worth around £28,000.

Lancs Police Specialist Ops stopped a Black Nissan Qashqai just before 4pm on Tuesday, October 22 The vehicle was travelling northbound on the busy motorway.

Officers allegedly discovered four bars of gold, each weighing 100g. A 42-year-old Glasgow man was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and remains in custody.

A spokesperson for Lancs Police Specialist Ops said: "When we stopped a Black Nissan Qashqai travelling northbound on the M6 yesterday (Tuesday October 22) at around 3:40pm, we didn’t expect to find four 100g bars of gold with an approximate value of £28,000.

"Following enquiries, a 42-year-old man from Glasgow was arrested on suspicion of money laundering. He is currently in custody.

However, bad news. Lisa Nandy wants to allow charities to be political. Really political. NGO level political while being forcibly funded by the tax payer.

Charities should criticise the government if they disagree on controversial policies areas such as immigration or the environment, the UK culture secretary has said, as she announced plans to restore civil society organisations to “the centre of our national life”.

Lisa Nandy said publicly speaking out was “critical to a healthy, functioning democracy” and that charities should “tell government where we’re getting it wrong and work with us to set it right”. She indicated they should no longer be told to “stick to their knitting”, a reference to a criticism by a previous Conservative government that charities had strayed too far into politics.

She spoke to the Guardian as she unveiled a new deal between the government and the £54bn-a-year charity sector that aims to give charity bosses greater influence and enlist them in the delivery of Labour’s five core missions.

The prime minister, Keir Starmer, told charity bosses at a Downing Street reception on Thursday: “To fix the foundations of our country we need a fundamental reset of the relationship between government and civil society.

“By harnessing the dynamism, innovation and trusted reach of civil society organisations, we can boost growth and deliver better outcomes for communities right across the country.”

The move represents an outbreak of peace after a bruising few years for charities. The National Trust and the Runnymede Trust, for example, were attacked by Conservative politicians for their interventions on matters including colonialism, slavery and modern-day racism.

In 2021, Oliver Dowden, the then culture secretary, also complained about charities being “hijacked by a vocal minority seeking to burnish their woke credentials”. Last year, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was accused of straying from “nesting boxes and bird feeders” when it posted on social media that government ministers were “liars” after they weakened environmental protections.

“I wouldn’t be happy about being called a liar, but that’s not a question for government to police what people can and can’t say,” Nandy said.

But with many charities facing collapse amid rising costs, falling incomes, declines in volunteering and rising demand, Labour’s new deal with civil society – including charities, voluntary organisations and trade unions – came with no guarantees to boost funding.

Charities have complained they are expected to deliver public services on the cheap, with most obliged to subsidise public sector contracts with voluntary income equivalent to £2.4bn a year. Nandy could not say if that would rise or fall under Labour.

Speaking in the week that the Salford Lads Club and a hospice for infants in Liverpool were the latest charities to say they are facing closure, she said: “We’re acutely aware of the fragility in the sector and the strain that charities are under.”

“We are seeing more closures, and it does tend to be at the smaller end [of the sector],” said Sarah Elliott, the chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. “Charities delivering public service contracts are [particularly] struggling because the contracts are not keeping up with inflation.”

She described the deal as a “foundational moment”.

“We want regular contact with the Treasury,” she said. “They meet the business bodies regularly, but they should be meeting civil society regularly. We are an important part of social change, but an important part of [economic] growth too.”

Nandy said: “I think that will change.”

Charities employ 1.1 million people in England, so any increase in employers’ national insurance contributions, floated as a likely change in this month’s budget, would only strain their finances further.

Nandy would not be drawn on the impact, but said: “We are already talking to civil society organisations in advance of the budget. We’re keen to get their views and to understand the pressures that they face.”

Tony Armstrong, the chief executive of Locality, which represents 1,800 local community organisations, welcomed the reset, saying the previous government lacked interest in their ideas. But he called for “something more concrete in terms of long-term planning”.

With the government reportedly planning to make £40bn in tax rises and spending cuts, imminent new money to support charities looks unlikely.

Nandy said the government had begun nudging potential philanthropists to invest in the areas they came from – something she has seen happen in Wigan, where the owner of the football and rugby league clubs, Mike Danson, has invested in the community. “We’re actively pursuing a strategy that will build that network and then connect it to those communities,” she said.

Citing the 25% gift aid tax break on donations by UK taxpayers, which delivers about £1.6bn to good causes annually, she said her team was also looking into ways to incentivise the wider population to give.

She also said she would examine a proposal to require financial advisers to the wealthy to suggest their clients might make donations, which research by Pro Bono Economics has estimated could deliver an extra £1.1bn a year in donations to charity.

After her predecessor Dowden called on heritage charities not to focus excessively on Britain’s empire, Nandy said charities had “an important role to play in helping to reflect the very rich history of this country in all of its light and shade”.

As a good example, she cited the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, which “didn’t shy away from the light and the dark in our past, that celebrated the great strengths that Britain has and looked to the future”.

Runnymede Trust for example was recently caught standing up for a murderous gang member.

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Gets even better. Who recently got into hot water for stuff relating to charities? Why it's her colleague Jess Philips after one of her aides broke those rules

https://archive.ph/KYbG4

St Paul's Community Development Trust has suspended its chair, who works as an aide to Labour leadership contender, Jess Phillips, after The Mail on Sunday uncovered social media posts branding Israel a “murderer”.
Phillips has also suspended Salma Hamid over what she said were “completely unacceptable messages”.
The Mail on Sunday uncovered social media posts by Hamid in which she branded Israel a “murderer” that was “inflicting Holocaust conditions on Palestinians”.
The posts were shared between 2014 and 2016, prior to the Hamid’s employment with the Birmingham Yardley MP and her appointment as a trustee.
Hamid became a trustee and chair of the trustee board at St Paul's Trust in October 2019.
St Paul's Community Development Trust is a community development charity in Birmingham.

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In a statement the charity said: “St Paul’s Community Development Trust is aware of the recent allegations that Salma Hamid sent a number of tweets between 2014 and 2016 that were antisemitic in nature.”
It adds: “In the light of these allegations the board of trustees’ have with immediate effect suspended Salma from her trustee duties.

“St Paul’s Trust is committed to encouraging diversity and eliminating discrimination both in its role as an employer and as a provider of services. St Paul’s Trust aims to create a culture that respects and values people’s differences, that promotes dignity, equality and diversity and that encourages individuals to develop and maximise their true potential.”
Phillips has previously criticised Jeremy Corbyn, over his handling of antisemitism in the party.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Phillips said: “Yesterday evening I was shown some completely unacceptable messages posted by a member of my team prior to her employment with me. I have been clear from the outset that we need a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism in the party - and so the person involved was suspended with immediate effect.”
She added: “It is easy to call out and challenge our adversaries, it is far harder to do this when it is our friends and close colleagues. I am really sad that I've had to take this action against a hard working and valued member of staff. But we can't have one rule for those we don't like and another for those we do. I pledge to always take action quickly and effectively, without fear or favour. This is the right thing to do and the only way to start building a bridge again with the Jewish community.”

 

[AnOminous]

Okay, we need a bit of lighter news. Here's some.
https://archive.ph/TQeQ1

It's utterly fucked merely having something valuable is "money laundering." I'd say fuck Cuck Island but we have thieving pig cops do that over here too.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

It's utterly fucked merely having something valuable is "money laundering." I'd say fuck Cuck Island but we have thieving pig cops do that over here too.

...dude.
He was driving from one end of the island to the other with the equivalent of most of a year's salary for quite a chunk of the island in untraceable currency. Do you think Robert Menendez got an unfair shake too?

Fuck the UK is a great tune but there are times when dodgy shit is dodgy shit. It would be more common to find that much in drugs on an average car travelling the UK than gold bars, the police's "tee hee, what a surprise" is blatant bullshit, they stopped the car for a reason and found what they were expecting.

 

["Not" Count Dankula]

Is it not somewhat terrifying that Islamic gangs are being used to Clintonise enemies of the state? That if you attend the wrong whiteboy chimpout and receive a few months in prison, Cousinfucker Habib and the Durka Durka crew will either kill you themselves or make sure that you do it yourself?

And yet the high-minded realpolitik within the Blair-run labour party is that we have to allow this to happen relentlessly, anywhere, everywhere and all at once, until everyone in the country is some goatfucking retard who has to vote labour because that's where their govt token bennies come from, even though those bennies can't buy anything in the inevitable hellscape run by Jamals and Abduls

Fuck the natives, australopithecus' need moar Air Jordans!

 

[Chaos Theorist]

A Glaswegian on the M6 caught with gold bars?

Its drug money

 

["Not" Count Dankula]

A Glaswegian on the M6 caught with gold bars?

Its drug money

WHO THE FUCK ALLOWED THOSE THISTLE-ARSED HOMUNCULI TO DRIVE? TREATING THE SCOTS LIKE REAL PEOPLE IS A BAD IDEA. IT'S LIKE THOSE OLD PG TIPS ADVERTS FROM BACK IN THE DAY WHERE THOSE CHIMPS HAD HOUSES AND CLOTHES AND SHIT. YEAH IT'S FUNNY AND EVERYTHING ON TV BUT WE DON'T ACTUALLY LET IT HAPPEN IN THE REAL WORLD, BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT THOSE WITLESS HAIRY APES WILL ACTUALLY DO

 

[Snekposter]

Rammstein's Amerika gets more prescient by the day. America has many virtues, but I don't want to see the UK become America lite. We already eat American food at American chain restaurants, are beholden to American corporations, watch American TV, listen to our politicians tickle the balls of American politicians. The 'special relationship' appears to ensure that the US has a one way cultural foothold in their English speaking neighbour at the expense of our own culture.

Apologies for the double post. Don't send me to Starmer's gulag.

I really hate to break it to you, but this is something that's been ongoing since 1945. When the British Empire started its collapse, you guys latched onto ours as a means of survival.

That aside, isn't it a bit rich for a bunch of Englishmen to get upset about another nation exporting their culture onto them? Especially when its one of your former colonies. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

 

[f4t2h7gc]

isn't it a bit rich for a bunch of Englishmen to get upset about another nation exporting their culture onto them? Especially when its one of your former colonies.

It is but I don't care. I'd quite like British culture to stay British. The rot may already be too deep.

you guys latched onto ours as a means of survival.

It's not just Britain that has this problem. But as it stands, we are the furthest along the pathway to burger land monoculture.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

That aside, isn't it a bit rich for a bunch of Englishmen to get upset about another nation exporting their culture onto them?

Our culture that we exported was superior to that of the mud-dwelling niggers. We gave them healthcare, order and technology. All America have given is aids, trannies and nigger-worship.

When the British Empire started its collapse

Because you scared, money-grubbing, fat cunts sat back while we saved the world. Obviously you did it not as allies, but as enemies to sink ours, the germans and the japanese empire.
The wrong country was fought in 1939 and the wrong country was nuked in 1945.

The Japs and Krauts would have never had us kneeling for niggers, sucking girldick and consooming political-laden tripe passed as 'entertainment'.

The americans pushed for the chinks, and then the indians, to enter western business to steal jobs and flood the streets with shit. The Empire murdered indians in their millions and neutered the chinks.

 

[Coolio55]

Everyone STFU. Some Labour MP just had a whirlstar moment:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14007847/

https://archive.is/zXLpY

 

[East_Clintwood]

Everyone STFU. Some Labour MP just had a whirlstar moment:

He's posted a statement (which got Community Noted) on Twatter as well:


Ah yes, men standing there with their hands in their pockets, truly the most threatening of all.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

He ain't no John 'two jags' Prescott.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

He's posted a statement (which got Community Noted) on Twatter as well:

Community notes also get around him not letting people comment.

He ain't no John 'two jags' Prescott.

Exactly who I thought of, with the difference being Prescott got egged at close range in his blind spot before lamping someone. If Kier is dumb enough to compare the two I suspect it will make matters worse.

https://archive.ph/buxbn

He's suspended now, fairly unsurprising, and allegedly is helping police with their enquiries. I suspect he'll get away with it but for added irony guess what he was doing Friday?

https://nitter.privacydev.net/MikeAmesburyMP/status/1849885522975445031#m

With our Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner @danpricelab and Frodsham @cwaclabour Cllrs listening to residents' concerns and ideas for policing and community safety

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

A Glaswegian?

Its drug money

FTFY