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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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It's already happening, there's already a distinct chance that Trump's complained about Keir being so Two-Tier.
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Back from Yankee land and Dawn Butler's been seething about the fact that Kemi's closer to being PM than she ever will be.
Sir Keir Starmer faced a growing storm over London Labour MP Dawn Butler appearing to share a tweet describing Kemi Badenoch as a “member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class”.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described as “appalling” the description of Ms Badenoch becoming Tory leader as a “Blackface of white supremacy has broken the glass ceiling for all Black people”.

But she said she did not know if Brent East MP Ms Butler had shared the original tweet, or Twitter thread, posted by Nigerian-British author Nels Abbey, based in London, entitled: “Warning: Seven Rules for Surviving A Kemi Badenoch Victory”.
Mr Abbey suggested that that the London MP had retweeted his post.
The London MP is reported to have swiftly taken it down.
Asked about the row, Ms Cooper said: “I didn’t see the post.
“I clearly strongly disagree with that.
“The Prime Minister congratulated Kemi Badenoch on her election to be leader of the Conservative Party.
“Everybody across the country should welcome seeing a black woman becoming...”
Presenter Nick Ferrari intervened to ask why Ms Butler had not been suspended.
Ms Cooper stressed that this was a matter for the party whips.
She added: “I think it’s right to congratulate Kemi Badenoch on her election and whilst there will be all sorts of issues that we will disagree on it’s great for people right across the country, for young children growing up, to be able to see that glass ceilings are continuing to be smashed...”
But pressed whether a “Black face of white supremacy has broken the glass ceiling for all Black people” was a racist statement, Ms Cooper emphasised: “I strong disagree with that statement that you have just read out.
“I haven’t seen the post so I don’t know about the detail.
“The words that you have read out are clearly appalling and I would strongly disagree with them.”
The Prime Minister was under pressure to consider action against Ms Butler, if she did retweet the post.
Ben Obese-Jecty, who was elected as MP for Huntingdon in July, said: “This will be a test to see whether Keir Starmer removes the whip, or effectively condones Butler’s abhorrent approval of this smear.”
Labour was on Sunday night showing no signs of removing the whip from Ms Butler.
Sir Keir has previously suspended the whip from Labour MPs in response to comments about senior black Conservative politicians.

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In 2022, he suspended Rupa Huq from the party for describing then-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng as “superficially” black. Ms Huq apologised and had the whip restored six months later.
Other Labour figures, including Sir Keir and Foreign Secretary David Lammy, hailed Ms Badenoch’s election as the first black leader of a major UK party as a historic moment.
In later posts, Mr Abbey said his original comments had been “clearly satirical” and “intended as a sketch”, but defended Ms Butler saying she “may not welcome the ascendancy of an extremely right-wing reactionary black person”.
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Don't suppose anyone's got the archive of Dawn's retweet?
 
Free the Pedos said:
Bongfrens, I am curious about reactions to Trump’s election from people IRL in the UK. Please share any interesting anecdotes you have.
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No commentary at work although a few months ago the office whiners were impotently sneeding about it in some pointless meeting that they co-opted.
The only people I know IRL who're going to throw a tantrum are currently too far away to properly gauge. (Although I hope they make a very swift return so I can watch)
 
Free the Pedos said:
Bongfrens, I am curious about reactions to Trump’s election from people IRL in the UK. Please share any interesting anecdotes you have.
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We’re either very happy or pretending we’re upset for half an hour for likes and retweets then getting on with our lives.

I am very happy.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Don't suppose anyone's got the archive of Dawn's retweet?
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I believe it was this:
Warning: Seven Rules for Surviving A Kemi Badenoch Victory

Today the most prominent member of white supremacy's Black collaborator class (in Britain) is likely to be made leader of the Conservative Party. Here are some handy tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (i.e. white supremacy in Blackface):

1. Don’t allow yourself to be gaslit. Of course, a victory for Badenoch is an obvious, unprecedented and once inconceivable victory for racism. Yet for legitimacy and national blush-saving purposes, it will be portrayed as anything but. Hence the Black & Brown voices invited to speak about a Badenoch victory in the media will likely be carefully selected. Expect a lot of Sunder Katwala and Trevor Phillips types, but not much from anyone else. Certainly not knowledgeable objectors.

2. Don't feed the trolls: avoid the inevitable avalanche of “whatever your politics” rhetoric. E.g. “Whatever your politics, you must acknowledge how great and progressive the Conservative Party is now that a Blackface of white supremacy has broken the glass ceiling for all Black people…” and “Whatever your politics, Black children finally have a great role model to look up to”.

3. Don’t get arrested Pt. I: As that free speech championing entity known as the British state would say: be careful what you post. The police scour this app for "offensive" material and they take immense glee in weaponising laws designed to protect ethnic minorities against ethnic minorities.

4. Don’t get arrested Pt. II: The police don't do nuance, and they conveniently refuse to understand Black & Brown intra-communal language or forms of critique, satire or compliment (e.g. coconut, Uncle Tom, Aunt Kemi, house negro, choc ice, etc).

5. Don’t get arrested Pt. III: In pursuit of "protecting" the feelings and political positions of ethnic minority politicians (with far-right sensibilities), the police and CPS will do everything conceivably possible to legally and psychologically destroy you.

6. Don’t get arrested Pt. IV: Look up The Emoji Trial and The Coconut Trial for more information on how quickly proprietary Black & Brown intellectual tradition, thought or language can land you in a British police cell.

7. Remember White supremacy’s silver linings: they always discard their tools. Always. Yes, this will be a painful and shameful period. Our various politics and very standing in Britain and as British people will be seriously compromised by a Badenoch victory. Yet rest assured: painful as it may be for Black & Brown people – history teaches us that Badenochism will end even worse for Kemi Badenoch. "Amen" said the church. Good luck!
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Tweeted by Nels Abbey, who runs a programme of "conferences" about racism entitled Uppity HQ. The next one (postponed) is "Principles of Respectability: Must they Co-exist in Black Equality Struggles? And how do we save the next Chris Kaba?"
 
AssignedEva said:
I believe it was this:
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Looks about right. Of course he claims it's "satire" while hurling a list of racist slurs better suited to an A&N post. No doubt his Chris Kaba advice will be a repost of the old Chris Rock video.
 
The IRL commentary I've heard is all some level of disinterest and all variations on the theme of "they deserve whatever happens next".

Personally I honestly couldn't give a shit. Doesn't affect me.
 
I'm glad Trump won. We have more chance of world peace than nuclear war, so that's a positive. Hopefuly this ends the eternal screeching of politics infesting everything and the trannies kill themselves or just disappear back into a corner somewhere.
 
Very happy to see America "voted the right way", Feels like every country besides has so it's both a blessing and a curse that I get too see global homo be destroyed just not where I live.
 
I'd like to know what Starmer was thinking when he appointed David Lammy foreign secretary. I get that he needed to appoint a black to one of the great offices of state, but the idea that the only choice wad Lammy is kind of shocking to me.

The first time Lammy says or does something to piss off another country, all the dumb shit he's said and done will be dug up (kind of surprised Israeli media hasn't bothered yet). Though I wonder if the reason he's being so obequious with Trump and Vance even before they won the election is because he knows this.

Tony Blair wrote in his auto biography that no politician once in the job ever wants to stop being foreign secretary. You get all the prestige of moving on the world stage but none of the hassles of dealing with domestic politics (this was actually a subtle dig at Robin Cook). If Starmer ever tries to sack Lammy he's not going to go quitely. Also because of the state of the FCO I don't think his civil servants have the qualities to tard wrangle him.

Anyway this is always worth a watch.



 
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isalaide said:
The IRL commentary I've heard is all some level of disinterest and all variations on the theme of "they deserve whatever happens next".

Personally I honestly couldn't give a shit. Doesn't affect me.
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Typical Nat. You’ll be in your knees with your tongue out and your arse cheeks spread and willing as soon as there’s a sniff of cash available from him.
 
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