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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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Chaos Theorist said:
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.c...ata-on-esa-suicide-attempts-in-unique-report/
Another Tory W
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I think the implication we're supposed to read into here is that restrictive benefits policies are driving people to self harm and suicide.
But if we dig out the stats on ESA:
High levels of multimorbidity: Given ESA is aimed at people with a health condition or impairment, it was not surprising that claimants were much more likely than Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants or others in the population to experience having multiple health conditions at the same time. Over half (55.1%) struggled with being able to perform three or more activities of daily living, such as being able to wash and dress, take medications, deal with paperwork and money, and get out and about. Nearly a third (30.9%) experienced the combined burden of having both a physical health condition that limited them ‘a lot’ and a mental health condition that limited them ‘a lot’. They were also more likely than the rest of the working age population to experience limiting sensory impairments (16.9% sight; 8.3% hearing), borderline intellectual impairment (24.2%), and traits linked to autism (6.4%) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (38.2%).
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Majority anxious and depressed: Two-thirds (65.2%) of ESA recipients experienced depressive or anxiety disorders at levels at which mental health intervention, such as counselling or medication, might be considered warranted. This is twice the rate in JSA claimants (28.1%), and four times that among employed people (14.6%). High rates of severe mental illness and trauma: One in six were identified with probable psychosis (16.7%), a serious and disabling mental health condition characterised by hallucinations, delusions and confused or disturbed thoughts: the prevalence in employed people was one in a thousand (0.1%). Many had experience of trauma in their lives, with nearly one in three (29.6%) screened positive for possible post-traumatic stress disorder. This was more than twice the prevalence in JSA claimants (12.2%) and ten times that in employed people (2.7%). ESA claimants were more likely than other groups to report signs of drug dependence (12.8%) but were not found to be more likely to show signs of having an alcohol problem.
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Oh so you're saying people who are too disabled to achieve basic daily tasks and who mostly have severe mental health issues tend to feel suicidal more often? Groundbreaking. What next, "people who have been sectioned are more likely to feel suicidal"?
 
Eekum Bokum said:
Who gets to decide what and who is ethnically British?
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Good try.

Nobody, even at the Tommy Robinson end, is talking about ethnicity in terms of who is British. You can be black, white, brown, yellow. This is not the deciding factor.

What IS the deciding factor is culture. It is a nebulous term, and there are areas where it might not be immediately clear.

But today, we are not struggling with the minute. We are dealing with very clear cut things that are incompatible with life in Britain.

Having sex with children is not British
Having slaves is not British.
Trying to force other people to follow your religion is not British.
Being unable to speak English is self-excluding from British life.
Refusing to speak English similarly also is a form of self exclusion from British life.

But Karen! You ask. What about immigrants. If they're invited, they might have a route to one day becoming British on a pathway that the British people has chosen to extend to them or not. Entering the country illegally on the other hand without invitation? That makes you an interloper who needs to be driven out immediately.

I'm not white, and I've been sat among some very right wing people who've never once said anything about my race. Its not a secret why. I speak fluent English in public, take part in life around me, don't sequester myself in an enclave and act and do the same as they do.

I imagine if I wore a burkah, roasted goats in the middle of the street, would only spoke to public officials in Yoruba and tried to abduct their primary school aged children they might have something more to say about it even if I was white.

99% of people don't care that they're not Anglo Saxon, even the supreme racist in chief as charged by the UK Tommy Robinson is a Dual UK-Irish citizen with Jewish ancestry. They care that they're openly hostile to the British "way" of being.
 
It's this simple, export all non-whites, then gypsies, then chavs. Once that is done, we can relax for a year or two and see how things pan out. If more need exporting, so be it.
Elvis had the best views on removing foreigners: "A little less conversation and more action please. All this immigration isn't satisfactioning me"
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
It's this simple, export all non-whites, then gypsies, then chavs. Once that is done, we can relax for a year or two and see how things pan out. If more need exporting, so be it.
Elvis had the best views on removing foreigners: "A little less conversation and more action please. All this immigration isn't satisfactioning me"
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I don't...think those are the lyrics, but I'm not an Elvis guy.
 
Karen of Human Resources said:
Who is it that brought in blasphemy laws? Labour.
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They haven't, this is what the muslim mp was ranting about during the gaza protests. We actually had them from the medieval era but were removed under Brown in 2008.

Also Labour being more left wing tends to reduce immigration but be polite to the immigrants already here, tories act tough so that you don't notice when they increase immigration. I agree that they've elected more progressive types than labour but that's so that their regressive policies come from a progressive mouthpiece. Just like Kemi.

Deportations are up under Labour: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-removes-highest-number-of-illegal-migrants-in-5-years
 
Tragon Dirtle said:
They haven't, this is what the muslim mp was ranting about during the gaza protests. We actually had them from the medieval era but were removed under Brown in 2008.
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They keep floating the idea. When the Rotherham scandal broke Miliband broke silence after a few days not to discuss the problem of his postal vote fraud army raping girls but to say they may consider recognising Palestine and bringing in blasphemy laws.
 
FedPostalService said:
They keep floating the idea. When the Rotherham scandal broke Miliband broke silence after a few days not to discuss the problem of his postal vote fraud army raping girls but to say they may consider recognising Palestine and bringing in blasphemy laws.
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that's true and I don't like him being in government now because of it, but they're still the party that actually banned them in the first place. It's about what politicians / parties actually do, not what they'll say they'll do.
 
Tragon Dirtle said:
Deportations are up under Labour: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-removes-highest-number-of-illegal-migrants-in-5-years
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The question is where are they removed to, and who is it they're removing? They're generally not sending them back to their home countries because those are considered "dangerous", so they have to be sending them to some third nation. If they're only being sent over to the EU then it's a meaningless gesture, because they'll be back in a week.

Inward migration has also risen under Labour, which now intends to increase it to even greater levels than the tories, with the same implicit goal: They want more "workers". Only now it's to fund their enormous spending pledges rather than suppress wages.
 
Eekum Bokum said:
Why should the Anglo-Saxons get to stay? they aren't from the British Isles, they should fuck off back to Germany and give my people their land back.
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If you take this retarded logic to it's natural conclusion then you're saying anybody who doesn't live in South Africa or wherever the fuck Humanity started is a foreigner
 
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Monopolywheel said:
If you take this retarded logic to it's natural conclusion then you're saying anybody who doesn't live in South Africa or wherever the fuck Humanity started is a foreigner
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That's right. Forget return to monkey, in fact people need to return to ocean. A lucky few may even survive it.
 
teriyakiburns said:
The question is where are they removed to, and who is it they're removing? They're generally not sending them back to their home countries because those are considered "dangerous", so they have to be sending them to some third nation. If they're only being sent over to the EU then it's a meaningless gesture, because they'll be back in a week.

Inward migration has also risen under Labour, which now intends to increase it to even greater levels than the tories, with the same implicit goal: They want more "workers". Only now it's to fund their enormous spending pledges rather than suppress wages.
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It is their home countries. Main flights have been to Nigeria and Ghana. https://www.gbnews.com/news/keir-st...-deported-nearly-10000-removed-since-election

Increased inward migration is being expanded mainly in tech visas to try and catch the expected brain drain from the US, the problem with inward migration has been that under Boris the list of relevant jobs was expanded to include almost anything, like hairdressers. Totally different. And AFAIK as I know that hasn't been fixed yet because they've been focused on reducing the number of dependents, but that doesn't meant they're not going to.
 
Karen of Human Resources said:
Having sex with children is not British
Having slaves is not British.
Trying to force other people to follow your religion is not British.
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Three of the most retarded sentences I've ever read on this site.

"I am not white" maybe explains it.

Modern British culture is founded on social change of the Victorian era. Child prostitution was fucking rife, slavery had barely been abolished, and missionaries were all over the British Empire.

For fuck's sake nigger, don't over-reach.
 
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