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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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Plastic Bag said:
the country is centre right now, and it was centre right at the last election.
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This is a great point. Lib/Lab/Greens are stunned or shocked when it rears its head every time and delivers something like this.

These issues fuelling the same sentiment behind leaving the EU have been the same since the 80s. They're just ignored totally by the politicians and it's thrown ahead to the next election.

Immigration from the 60s? Biggest issue today.
Tories fighting about Europe and the EU? Defined a decade of British politics on two separate occasions.

These are typical, hard-working, Christian Labour areas (yes, they used to be a proudly protestant Christian party back in the good old days) with endless generations of lost people. They have no purpose, their lives keep getting worse and they get the pleasure of having to pay for it and then being told to be grateful. "Be thankful we got in otherwise your council tax would've been more, peasant."

People in places like these expect to die in the same places they were born. Voting for something like leaving the EU or staunch anti-immigration policies were essentially the same to them as chucking £1 on a scratch card. We've been conditioned as a nation to enjoy the collective schadenfreude of our benevolent masters and why not? It's bloody good fun watching a battered Tory MP on the morning radio round having to try and spin losing 60% of all councillors on LBC.

A "bloody nose" set of locals like these was not common whatsoever besides a few hundred gains or losses that'd shift between Lib/Lab/Con; losing 60% of all of your elected councillors in one single night isn't a bloody nose, it's a broken one. Now it's literally every election where both the Tories and Labour are having their noses broken consistently in the same large numbers, similar areas, similar demographics.

Politisperging and election chud posting done for now. I need a coffee, a very hot bath and an endless Wetherspoons brekkie if I'm going to tackle a full day of work on no sleep.

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Smyrna said:

Reform on pace for 60 out of 70 seats as it stands, so without question Lincolnshire will be the petri dish for Reform in government.
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Usually that just means that Labour government would punish the non-Labour council by cutting budgets.

It will be interesting to see if they do/don't go ahead with the plans they announced about delegating powers to the new "super mayors" as they didn't all go Labour like the voting intention was when they started creating the positions back at the last general election. With another party getting one(or more) they can't throw huge amounts of money at the mayors to implement free bus passes and fixing potholes and other easy stuff to buy votes as Sadiq Kahn has in London with free school meals and bus passes and things, without understanding the areas they lost will implement the same stuff and gain even more vote share.
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
@Made In Wales I really appreciate your post and how detailed it was, but is there any evidence yet that we've benefited from leaving and not sucking Americas cock?
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The 200+ trade deals signed independently? The ability to make our own laws and vote out the people who make them? Closer ties with Commonwealth countries which are historically very important to us. Not feeding into the EU protectionist racket? Not having to funnel our tax money into their corrupt systems.

Now, we just need to actually leave the EU and we can take full advantage.
 
FedPostalService said:
There was a numb in wages, particularly in low skilled, when they couldn’t bring in Potato niggers anymore.

Then they just started importing regular ones :(
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I prefer my chips to be golden, not burnt.

In an ideal world, we should be able to benefit from the pros of both the EU and America. But I know life isn't fair, and I'm fairly certain Nigel and many reformists (who may hold shares in private healthcare) want to privatise many (more) aspects of the NHS, such as much for the working-class??

I'd also rather not have hormones and steroids pumped into my meat, I'm not a tranny...afterall.
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
I'm fairly certain Nigel and many reformists (who may hold shares in private healthcare) want to privatise many (more) aspects of the NHS
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If they make some money and everybody receives better healthcare, then so what?

As awful as American's health insurance system is, there's a reason why basically every major advancement in health originates from the US. Money talks.
 
I wonder what would be worse for R NHS (god bless them), some limited private sector involvement or importing millions of disease riddled wogs who've never so much as been in the same mud hut as a doctor who didn't prefix the title with "witch"?

HIV, TB, you name the third world plague and it's on the up because we've been importing carriers of it wholesale.

People are voting Reform because we want Labour and the Tories to be completely destroyed because they are both fully committed to replacement of the white working class. End of.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
I wonder what would be worse for R NHS (god bless them), some limited private sector involvement or importing millions of disease riddled wogs who've never so much as been in the same mud hut as a doctor who didn't prefix the title with "witch"?
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I am not against private sector involvement. But just look at the state of the UK dentistry, and I rest my case.

Can you afford good dental care? Can you afford good healthcare? That's great for you, but I'm pretty sure the people and party you have a boner for aren't in that income bracket to be able to afford that.

Also, @Crunkle, one of the most prominent reasons why some aspects of the American health-care system are so advanced, is indeed due to funding and money, yes, by pharmaceutical companies, you know...the ones that invented the COVID-19 vaccine and want to kill people.
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
I prefer my chips to be golden, not burnt.

In an ideal world, we should be able to benefit from the pros of both the EU and America. But I know life isn't fair, and I'm fairly certain Nigel and many reformists (who may hold shares in private healthcare) want to privatise many (more) aspects of the NHS, such as much for the working-class??

I'd also rather not have hormones and steroids pumped into my meat, I'm not a tranny...afterall.
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What you don't appear to understand is that the Unions were infiltrated by Common Purpose types who want the Unions to work against those they are supposed to protect.

Tied in with watering down standards, it's a recipe for disaster.

Now, you say that we should be able to enjoy the pros of the EU and USA relations, but neglect to point out that for every pro there is a con. I believe that globally we should be able to get along and have GFT (Global Free Trade, with taxes only imposed upon luxury/elite goods), but when the EU is one club/protectorate and the USA is a rival club/protectorate then it's impossible. It's like supporting both Liverpool and Everton whereby most Liverpudlian football fans tend to support one of these.

The NHS will fail either way - in Wales, there are talks of strikes through the summer and a refusal to go back until Doctors get not only better pay but conditions and support.

As for steroid meat, did you know that the EU have sanctioned mealworm and insects in your food?

You will eat the worms and insects, that's the EU mandate and one of the 'benefits' of being tied to a cult which speaks down to its disciples.
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
I am not against private sector involvement. But just look at the state of the UK dentistry, and I rest my case.
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In the unlikely event that, as a productive member of society, you can get an appointment with an NHS dentist, you'll get fuck-awful treatment from Mr Gupta who has a diploma in toothadontics from the Pondicherry Institute of Ayurvedic Scale And Polishing (the secret ingredient is cow piss).

Or you can go private and get a decent level of treatment that in reality will have cost less because of the lack of NHS red tape/grotesque DEI infrastructure/malpractice payouts.

The NHS is riddled with gangrene and the only cure is going to be some radical excision of the diseased flesh. Fertility treatments, cosmetic surgery for feels, treatment of any kind for foreigns, organ transplants for pissheads/drug addicts, medication to save people from their own degenerate lifestyles, it's all got to go.
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
I am not against private sector involvement. But just look at the state of the UK dentistry, and I rest my case.

Can you afford good dental care? Can you afford good healthcare? That's great for you, but I'm pretty sure the people and party you have a boner for aren't in that income bracket to be able to afford that.

Also, @Crunkle, one of the most prominent reasons why some aspects of the American health-care system are so advanced, is indeed due to funding and money, yes, by pharmaceutical companies, you know...the ones that invented the COVID-19 vaccine and want to kill people.
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The question being can you even get dental healthcare?

Again, a non issue for the Uniparty Labour and Tories, and there's a dearth of new dentists coming through.

Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
@Made In Wales I really appreciate your post and how detailed it was, but is there any evidence yet that we've benefited from leaving and not sucking Americas cock?
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We're not sucking the EU's cock, for a change.

I'll take that as a W.
 
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Starmer: "The message I take out of these elections is that we need to go further and we need to go faster on the change that people want to see."

I agree, I want him to go further (into the sea) faster (from a Chinook). That's the change I want to see.
 
Made In Wales said:
What you don't appear to understand is that the Unions were infiltrated by Common Purpose types who want the Unions to work against those they are supposed to protect.

Tied in with watering down standards, it's a recipe for disaster.

Now, you say that we should be able to enjoy the pros of the EU and USA relations, but neglect to point out that for every pro there is a con. I believe that globally we should be able to get along and have GFT (Global Free Trade, with taxes only imposed upon luxury/elite goods), but when the EU is one club/protectorate and the USA is a rival club/protectorate then it's impossible. It's like supporting both Liverpool and Everton whereby most Liverpudlian football fans tend to support one of these.

The NHS will fail either way - in Wales, there are talks of strikes through the summer and a refusal to go back until Doctors get not only better pay but conditions and support.

As for steroid meat, did you know that the EU have sanctioned mealworm and insects in your food?

You will eat the worms and insects, that's the EU mandate and one of the 'benefits' of being tied to a cult which speaks down to its disciples.
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Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
In the unlikely event that, as a productive member of society, you can get an appointment with an NHS dentist, you'll get fuck-awful treatment from Mr Gupta who has a diploma in toothadontics from the Pondicherry Institute of Ayurvedic Scale And Polishing (the secret ingredient is cow piss).

Or you can go private and get a decent level of treatment that in reality will have cost less because of the lack of NHS red tape/grotesque DEI infrastructure/malpractice payouts.

The NHS is riddled with gangrene and the only cure is going to be some radical excision of the diseased flesh. Fertility treatments, cosmetic surgery for feels, treatment of any kind for foreigns, organ transplants for pissheads/drug addicts, medication to save people from their own degenerate lifestyles, it's all got to go.
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Made In Wales said:
The question being can you even get dental healthcare?

Again, a non issue for the Uniparty Labour and Tories, and there's a dearth of new dentists coming through.
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Made In Wales said:
We're not sucking the EU's cock, for a change.

I'll take that as a W.
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I have a private dentist and all of them are pajeets, NHS or not. But that's what I get for being a southern fairy.

You're right, I'm just a silly, stupid, faggot and I need to let the real, big, strong men take charge.

I will learn my place.
 
Looks like at least one Labour MP understands that things are going badly for the party:

'It’s not just Labour’s loss in Runcorn that is worrying some of the party’s MPs.

It is that, on the limited results so far, the party seems to be under-performing relative to poor local election results in 2021.

Labour has lost ground in Northumberland and failed to capitalise on Conservative unpopularity in Staffordshire.

So far, most of the critics who are speaking on the record are on Labour’s left.

Richard Burgon – a shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn – says: "The Labour leadership must urgently change course. It should start by ditching the plans to cut disability benefits and increase taxes on the wealthiest instead."

The co-chair of the left-wing group Momentum, Sasha Das Gupta, urges more MPs and councillors to speak out against the leadership’s direction, and says that "continuing austerity and failing to offer real change risks handing the country to the likes of Nigel Farage".

Speaking off the record to some MPs from across the party, they seem to agree that the main issues raised with them on the doorsteps were winter fuel cuts, fear of cuts to disability payments, and immigration (not all in that order).'

 
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