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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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I think Majorie Taylor Greene is a loony. She reminds me a bit of mad nads dorrries. but isn’t it mad whenever our journo scum goes to America now, all they get is “fuck off, you’ve got rapey migrants”
Shows how low we’ve sank.
 
>IMPLYING said:
3. If Farage is a plant meant to set the limit on acceptable right-wing rhetoric, he has been a dismal failure, as even his subordinates in his own party have sprinted past hi
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That was a fantastic post - much insight, many thinkings. I only want to comment on the above in so far as your're not wrong if that's what Farage is meant to do. But rhetoric aside if he splits Reform's support base and the issue isn't fixed by May council elections, it will do a lot of damage to Reform's chances. Formerly they were on course to make devastating inroads into local councils. Now, I'm less sure.

>IMPLYING said:
So yeah, I think Null has indirectly assisted the very government he hates by doing this
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I feel so too. Stage 2 of Bongland's authoritarians would be to say "look, people are widely able to use VPNs and TOR technology to retain access to this non-compliant website. These technologies must be restricted."

Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
Why does our government hate us for using the farms?
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They hate anything they do not control. Especially speech and information. The reason being is that the State cannot control the population by pure force. They must rely on controlling what the population think and think about.
 
Overly Serious said:
That was a fantastic post - much insight, many thinkings. I only want to comment on the above in so far as your're not wrong if that's what Farage is meant to do.
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You don’t try and openly debank yiur controlled op to the point everyone calls you authoritarian arse clowns. It does you no good. It did them no good.

No, i don’t think Farage was meant to set what is acceptable. I just think he is a lazy greedy arsehole.
 
Lovesock said:
I'm not concerned about a ban, I accepted that at its face value. I just wanted to correct the record for the weird caste of chortling sycophants.
I violated the rules of the site - simple as that. Nothing more, nothing less. There wasn't some vindication of your paranoid schizophrenia. It's a creeping kind of "self-policing" - the UK govt is profoundly weak, and ineffectual.

The entire conversation was:

"Stop being a digital menace or I'll ban you."

"I cannot stop being a digital menace."

No Feds, no drama, nothing else. I just thought "that's a fair cop" then wandered back after a few months.

You didn't need to lie, or invent anything more than it. If I get banned, it's for Ban Evasion and nothing more.

It was either here, or at the first sign of a railroad incursion in the East.

Also, my health has gotten a lot better. Thank you for asking.
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You were fedposting. And you had this weird idea that you could legal technicality around fed posting, somehow. That doesn't work because the decision maker isn't some binary algorithm that you can fox, but null who is a human being and does what he likes and what is in the best interests of the site.

If you say yourself that you "cannot stop being a digital menace" (which is a rather charitable rephrasing on your part) then I expect you to just be banned again. You were permabanned, right? Null nor the site need the headaches of someone violating site rules that way.


6MillionCoofs said:
You don’t try and openly debank yiur controlled op to the point everyone calls you authoritarian arse clowns. It does you no good. It did them no good.
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That's a fair point. I'm not certain he is controlled opposition, at least not knowingly. @>IMPLYING probably has the right of it in suggesting Farage is simply out of touch combined with some control freakery and I would say this makes him de facto controlled oposition by the people in position to exploit that, i.e. to give or withold press coverage, to prosecute Lowe or not, etc. But it's not impossible nor would be the first time for the Left hand to not know what the Right hand is doing. The debanking was initiated by the bank itself iirc and it ultimately worked in Farage's favour politically.

But we don't really know for certain at the end of the day I think. What probably matters more than whether he is wittingly or unwittingly serving Reform's political opposition, is how Reform's base stops him.
 
This plan of theirs will fail horribly, remember this is the same cabinet whose Deputy PM for her work history has -3 years as a care assistant then sucked constant dick in the unions. The same woman who thinks you can build 1.5 million homes in 3 years. They don't even have enough prison spaces either because the Crown Prosecution Q is 70,000+.

Like I have said, this is all the dominos lining up and Starmer is petrified. Notice how the sword ban is in August.
 
FedPostalService said:
Have we had a DNA test to confirm this?
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We tried but 23andMe went into financial crisis after receiving the saliva sample and there are currently advisories for people to delete all data. Rumours are that some ancient link between Homo sapiens and Cricetus cricetus was uncovered and they're trying to suppress the findings to prevent major upheaval of our understanding of the world.
 
FedPostalService said:
police aren't going to hunt you down as soon as they see you're behind a VPN.
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And I'd posit that if there's too many people doing it (more than 10 or something lmao), then even the smallest of hurdles — like not immediately having your name or general location plastered to your account — will be enough to dissuade them, especially since Twitter means the comments could've been made from anybody anywhere. Getting shit like an IP address requires approaching the website the comment was made on, hope they comply (if they're non-UK based and the comments amount to could get thrown at you on the streets of X-American city they might not), then they'd probably need to approach the internet service providers in the area associated with it and press them for your info if it doesn't tie to a specific address to confirm they've logged the address.

When you see the type of people who are arrested or approached by the police for social media posts, it's typically because they put their info front and centre on their accounts along with their face to tie a name to it. If the 'cyber specialist' they have is feeling fancy, might even click on other accounts that have been willingly associated with the account they made the comments on to see if you made it any easier for them. If you call Lammy a slur yet have your Linkdn account right there, they're one click away from getting your name, location, face, job, etcetera. I think this is how some of the Southport posters got got, since they're too young to be boomer-tier with OPSEC (I would hope). During the lockdowns it seems like one of the things everyone who implemented WFH did was have everyone make one of those accounts, not realising just how much easier it made to find you (or maybe that was the point?). After being in my current job for the past couple years, I had mine deleted since it was just an unnecessary vulnerability. Basically, never make it easy to find your name and location both. A name by itself or a location on its own, are both too large to go trawling through just to find one guy who posted something the police don't like. The police themselves are open about how they do it.
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>Publicly posted on Facebook
>'Worked' to identify and locate from their online profiles (Their general location and name were probably openly available on Facebook)

So just avoid being retarded and posting inflammatory shit under your real name and location. I spoke before earlier in the thread how far behind most people are when it comes to shit relating to the internet; I don't think people posting on this site or practice even minimal OPSEC (like not posting under their real name) are in any sort of trouble. People really need to consider the scale of the internet, how many people use it and how little manpower our authorities have in trying to police all of it. Even the Ofcom letter Null received put the mission of assessing how 'dangerous' his own website was on him. If you avoid making their jobs really easy for them, and don't do shit that forces them to put in more effort, then you're safe.
 
An Imam in Birmingham is going around disgusted at what filthy pigs his own are.



 
>IMPLYING said:
And I'd posit that if there's too many people doing it (more than 10 or something lmao), then even the smallest of hurdles — like not immediately having your name or general location plastered to your account — will be enough to dissuade them, especially since Twitter means the comments could've been made from anybody anywhere. Getting shit like an IP address requires approaching the website the comment was made on, hope they comply (if they're non-UK based and the comments amount to could get thrown at you on the streets of X-American city they might not), then they'd probably need to approach the internet service providers in the area associated with it and press them for your info if it doesn't tie to a specific address to confirm they've logged the address.
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In many ways I'm more concerned about it being done the other way around. The British govt.'s approach seems to be: "Criminalise everything. Enforce Selectively". Which is to say when someone starts becoming a problem or getting support, they then start going through their books for something to throw at him.

I'm less concerned than them finding something @Overly Serious has posted and figuring out who I am, than them seeing me at some protest or meeting and then finding out I post here.

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An Imam in Birmingham is going around disgusted at what filthy pigs his own are.

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Good for him, frankly.
 
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