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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.

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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This is unheard of in British politics, so fair play.

It feels like a happening, is this a happening? I think Starmer may be out after this. The Reform is pretty much on their predictions, if not better. This is utterly humiliating.
 
Reform get Runcorn. 40,000 vote majority for reform for Lincolnshire mayor an I hearing??

Very little coverage of it. But an incredible swing. Comprehensive rejection of both labour and the tories - GOOD they’ve both been traitorous. Will reform fix it all? Highly unlikely, but this is a brexit moment, it shows the electorate are not happy
 
Reform get Runcorn. 40,000 vote majority for reform for Lincolnshire mayor an I hearing??

Very little coverage of it. But an incredible swing. Comprehensive rejection of both labour and the tories - GOOD they’ve both been traitorous. Will reform fix it all? Highly unlikely, but this is a brexit moment, it shows the electorate are not happy
Yep, 42% for Reform there, one of my votes included.

Utter collapse of two party politics. The election results here won't change much immediately but they set a precedent and legitimise Reform as the opposition rather than the Tories.

Reform need to get rid of the sweaty fat guy they keep inviting on, though. He was on the full-on Channel 4 pozzed show a few days ago and he spoke third of the candidates and he was already drenched in sweat and stumbling over his entire talking points. If you can be made to look like a mental midget by Daisy Cooper (who, by the way, has a face like a foot) then you need to not be on that stage.
 
Reform get Runcorn. 40,000 vote majority for reform for Lincolnshire mayor an I hearing??

Very little coverage of it. But an incredible swing. Comprehensive rejection of both labour and the tories - GOOD they’ve both been traitorous. Will reform fix it all? Highly unlikely, but this is a brexit moment, it shows the electorate are not happy
Can I be reminded of what Brexit has made better thus far? Which was pushed by Nigel. Understand that it's a push against the "establishment", but weren't most reformers part of the establishment at one point?

Because instead of Poles and slavs, we've got more pakis and pajeets, and I know which are more preferable.
 
Just when I think the results can't get any better, I see this:
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Imagine going from 53 to 1. Think Lincolnshire might be the first ever Reform council.

Staffordshire is also heavily Reform. Of the 30 declared seats here, 24 are Reform. 6 are Tory.

This is the kind of success that UKIP barely even got to see.
 
I’m humming The Lincolnshire Poacher. This is hilarious. You’d think from the news that this was just bad for the Tories and not an utter disaster for Labour too.

Godspeed, you funny faced controlled opposition retard. Thank you for the lulz, Nigel. Enjoy that pint.
 
We're definitely heading for some kind of constitutional crisis in the next election, unless Conservatives agree not to run in certain seats or their votes collapse so badly that it's irrelevant. I can see Labour or Reform winning a majority with something like 26% of the total vote.
No doubt, by 2029, all of this will be irrelevant, just like the 2019 election, meaning nothing.
 
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Reform is incredibly well-organised in specific areas. The kind of ground-swell and established local support here are footholds, meaning the longer Reform have this momentum the harder it'll be to dethrone them or for the Tories to claw back these losses.

Farage's usual shtick is to fly the bat symbol every few years to get some feet to shift and vote for him. Death by a thousand cuts and delegitimising seems to be the game here. There's so much bullshit about Reform being untested in local government, yet nobody is mentioning that the Reform councillors are heavily ex-Tory. Some of them even ex-Tory councillors or MPs (Andrea Jenkyns is literally a mayor now).

I have a feeling we'll have a slew of defections to Reform in the next few weeks. A few councillors, a fuck load of the grassroots memberships and if we're lucky, we'll get an MP defecting.

The Tory response to this has been so on-brand, too. A few weeks ago, Badenoch was saying how local Tory council leaders could make deals with Reform. Right after, Jenrick positioned himself and now you've got the Tory co-chair ruling out any kind of partnership or deals. At what point do the last remaining Tories just give in?
 
BBC decided to headline Andrea Jenkyns being an ex Greggs worker. Greggsposters keep winning.
 
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Reform is incredibly well-organised in specific areas. The kind of ground-swell and established local support here are footholds, meaning the longer Reform have this momentum the harder it'll be to dethrone them or for the Tories to claw back these losses.

Farage's usual shtick is to fly the bat symbol every few years to get some feet to shift and vote for him. Death by a thousand cuts and delegitimising seems to be the game here. There's so much bullshit about Reform being untested in local government, yet nobody is mentioning that the Reform councillors are heavily ex-Tory. Some of them even ex-Tory councillors or MPs (Andrea Jenkyns is literally a mayor now).

I have a feeling we'll have a slew of defections to Reform in the next few weeks. A few councillors, a fuck load of the grassroots memberships and if we're lucky, we'll get an MP defecting.

The Tory response to this has been so on-brand, too. A few weeks ago, Badenoch was saying how local Tory council leaders could make deals with Reform. Right after, Jenrick positioned himself and now you've got the Tory co-chair ruling out any kind of partnership or deals. At what point do the last remaining Tories just give in?
If you look at the last election, if Reform hadn't run, then Labour wouldn't have a majority. So many seats were split, with Labour getting a million fewer votes but going up 200 seats due to the split and voter apathy.
My point is that even if Labour are less popular next election, let's say their percentage goes down 5%, they can still win a majority because Conservatives and Reform are targeting the same voters and they know this.

An alliance is necessary to secure the fabric of the voting system, the country is centre right now, and it was centre right at the last election.
The idea that the country became any more "Labour" at the last election compared to the one before is a lie. It was simply Brexit/Reform going from 600k votes to 4 million, and now could get double that and still not have the most seats.
 
Can I be reminded of what Brexit has made better thus far? Which was pushed by Nigel. Understand that it's a push against the "establishment", but weren't most reformers part of the establishment at one point?

Because instead of Poles and slavs, we've got more pakis and pajeets, and I know which are more preferable.
The EU has been a club. Like all clubs, members get benefits, but also have to abide by the rules.

Some of rules of the EU are ones that the vast majority of British people like. A few of them are seen as not ones we’d choose to enforce on ourselves.

By exiting, we gain the ability to choose which we’ll keep, and which we’ll abandon.

One that is key is that we’ll gain the ability to negotiate unilateral trade agreements. Of course, there are downsides which are (in my view) much bigger, like losing the current free trade agreement with the rest of the EU. And it’s much quicker to lose that than negotiate new ones with other countries.

We also become a full sovereign nation (in theory, anyway) and no longer have to abide by the EU's draconianism.

Brexit allows Britain to build reinvigorating ties with the realms of Asia, which are going to play a leading role in the world in the coming decades; the coming dominance is going to reshape world politics because for the first time since the 1700s, the leading region of the world isn’t going to be from what is touted as the West. Asia culturally, economically, politically, and from a mercantile perspective is a very different entity than the West, and this gives Britain more leeway to plan for her future. On the whole, the UK is respected by the Asian markets and despite the 'disagreements' with China, Xi still sees the UK as more of an ally than an enemy (though we caught in the USA/Russia crossfires at times).

The second benefit is that Britain keeps out of the series of domestic conflicts that will emerge as the EU tries to evolve into an empire; a series of referendums held since 1990s have continued to indicate that a sizable figure of people do not wish for a political union of the EU. It happened when the French said non to the Maastricht treaty. It happened in 2005 again in France when the people categorically denied giving legitimacy to an EU Constitution (which was then repackaged and sold as the Treaty of Lisbon). The Republic of Ireland were made to vote twice for it, and the EU bunged RTE 8.5 million Euros to push their propaganda.

The EU is the antithesis of the USA - whereas the USA is open for business, new ideas and new ventures, the EU is not and remains stuffy and pompous towards change. You can form a company within four days in the USA, in the EU this takes 45 days and most applications get turned down because unless they can benefit you aren't allowed to either.

As for 'weren't they all once part of the establishment' - well, once upon a time, most of us were as we believed in church and state (or at least the belief that both were more beneficial than harmful). Now, the paradigm shift has changed - both have lost their standing and people have woken up to the corruption and folly in both. Since 2019, the world has changed dramatically and people will not accept being lied to and pushed about anymore and this has been seen in the UK by an outright rejection of the 'big two'. The message is 'don't you dare tell us no anymore, we will not accept!'

Yes, we are getting more Pakistanis and Indians, but let's not kid ourselves that all the Slavs are good - Romanians and Albanians in the UK can be as violent as any street-shitting Pajeet or Cardiff Choirboy, in fact they make up most of the assault and robbery statistics in London as well as a lot of the gang-on-gang warfare in major UK cities. You will get a mixture of good and bad, everywhere you go.

The main benefit of Brexit to me is showing arrogant, self-righteous, pompous and Working Class hating majority White Libtards that we can defeat them en masse and make them cry. They believed that they were untouchable and unbeatable - they found out they're not and nearly ten years on from Brexit the alignment has changed and they are now 'old hat'. Their time at the top is over and it's time for them to leave the stage.

Looking ahead, the results from the votes yesterday are now going to change everything - Starmer surely cannot stay in power for much longer, and Ellie Reeves talking out of her shitter on BBC Breakfast News about 'oh well, incumbent parties never do well with by-elections' has not helped the cause and also she got it badly wrong - just look at the by-elections since 1997, the incumbent party tends to do well (as an example, this is a list of by-election results from Tony Blair's first four years as PM, 1997-2001: https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-information-office/m16.pdf).

What will happen before the July recess? Well, this month sees two recesses (one for May Bank Holiday and the other for Whitsun) and Labour will try to focus attention on its new White Paper for stopping Rapey and Stabby from coming across the channel, but with the mood of the nation now vehemently anti-Labour and fearing for their survival could we see either a leadership challenge from Rayner, Reeves, Streeting or even Burnham (the latter would have to leave his position as Mayor of Manchester and fight for a future vacant seat). There is also rumour that the anti Supreme Court pro-Trans Labour MP's could quit in order to show 'solidarity' with the Trans community, and there is pressure on them to do so - 'put up or shut up' as pro-Trans people have shouted out in recent weeks.

However, the biggest surprise/shock of all could see a snap General Election called roughly a year after the last one, if Starmer is unable to a) push through the party's manifesto plans/pledges without being scuppered by his own side and b) to fight off a rebellion and mass resignations. I would personally not rule this out as between the years 1922 and 1924 the UK had three elections (one a year) between Bonar Law, Asquith, Clynes and Lloyd George (1922), Baldwin, MacDonald and Asquith (1923, Baldwin seeking a mandate from the people to govern) and the same three gentlemen in 1924 (the Zionev letter being pivotal to this year's General Election) and the current shortest gap between General Elections is the nine month gap between the February 1974 General Election (resulting in a Hung Parliament when Heath's gamble backfired) and November 1974 with Harold Wilson winning a clear majority. Incidentally the second shortest gap between General Elections is 10 months (between the 1923 and 1924 General Elections) therefore, don't believe anybody who tells you that Labour have to and will serve five years - the Conservatives had three General Elections in four years (2015, 2017 and 2019) therefore anything is possible.

Reform UK are on the up, as are the Lib Dems and Greens, the times are changing and I believe that soon we are about to witness something very special in UK politics. It's no longer a question of 'if' but 'when'.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
 
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Reform is incredibly well-organised in specific areas. The kind of ground-swell and established local support here are footholds, meaning the longer Reform have this momentum the harder it'll be to dethrone them or for the Tories to claw back these losses.

Farage's usual shtick is to fly the bat symbol every few years to get some feet to shift and vote for him. Death by a thousand cuts and delegitimising seems to be the game here. There's so much bullshit about Reform being untested in local government, yet nobody is mentioning that the Reform councillors are heavily ex-Tory. Some of them even ex-Tory councillors or MPs (Andrea Jenkyns is literally a mayor now).

I have a feeling we'll have a slew of defections to Reform in the next few weeks. A few councillors, a fuck load of the grassroots memberships and if we're lucky, we'll get an MP defecting.

The Tory response to this has been so on-brand, too. A few weeks ago, Badenoch was saying how local Tory council leaders could make deals with Reform. Right after, Jenrick positioned himself and now you've got the Tory co-chair ruling out any kind of partnership or deals. At what point do the last remaining Tories just give in?
I’m looking forward to the nonstop coverage of Reform councils about how Reform haven’t fixed them within two weeks of being in power.
BBC decided to headline Andrea Jenkyns being an ex Greggs worker. Greggsposters keep winning.
I bet she wouldn’t have kicked us out of her Greggs for being racist.
 
Can I be reminded of what Brexit has made better thus far? Which was pushed by Nigel. Understand that it's a push against the "establishment", but weren't most reformers part of the establishment at one point?

Because instead of Poles and slavs, we've got more pakis and pajeets, and I know which are more preferable.
Brexit was popular amongst the electorate for anti-immigrant sentiments, yeah, but a large contingent of MPs in the Conservative party (Like Jacob Rees Mogg) supported it because it meant furthering business interests through decreasing regulation, not for lowering immigration figures (he opposed Theresa May's '100k a year' immigration target as being "too low"). However due to it being bungled, we essentially got no business-aligned benefits from Brexit aside from being able to negotiate independent trade deals outside the EU, otherwise no new regulations have been slashed, immigration has only climbed higher for no discernible reason (700k a year immigrants per year for ever decreasing vacancy numbers). There was also the supposed money we'd save from no longer being a member but that money just went into immigrants anyway; NHS spending went from 129 billion in 2016 to 157 billion in 2020, just for reference - we saved 18 billion a year on membership fees.

The only real benefit of Brexit is that it was, at bare minimum, a white pill that that people were getting sick of things and desired some kind of change. Similar to the local election results and Reform's polling (problems aside) it indicated a comfortable number of people want things to be different. Oh, and making Leftoids cope and seethe about why it won.

Remember this shit?
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