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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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teriyakiburns said:
This assumes Starmer will remain in charge and the party won't be openly split into opposed factions. Rayner is in open conflict with Starmer (if the express is to be believed) and there's a cadre of MPs threatening to resign over Starmer and Reeves' raiding of pensions and benefits. If Rayner launches a leadership bid, or if Starmer resigns and precipitates a leadership race, the party will split and will functionally lose its majority even if none of the rebel members formally resigns. In either event, enough of those rebellious MPs will side with calls for a new election under the threat of a vote of no confidence after the shitshow of the last few days; they will be balancing the guaranteed loss of their seats in 2029 against the merely potential loss of their seats in an election tomorrow, each hoping they'll be able to convince enough voters that they took a principled stand against Starmer et al to retain their seats.

Regardless, a snap election is very likely in the next year, regardless of whether or not Starmer is forced out, resigns, or neither. If he remains as leader, he will want to establish a new mandate for his leadership. If he's out, the new leader - faced with any number of problems - will likely have the same desire to establish a new mandate.

There are any number of mechanisms to force an election in these circumstances. Just because there's no formal "procedure for making the ruling party go away" doesn't mean the mechanisms don't exist. They're just a little more round-about.
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I don't see the parliamentary Labour Party splitting over new leadership. The backbenches are full of faceless non-entities who have no personal following. Even if their preference for leader is overlooked, where else would they go? I would argue that for a lot of these backbenchers, it would be far more risky to go to the country later this year than in 2029. The mood has already turned against the government and the Labour party, and by extension them as individuals. If they put their necks on the block now, the public will chop. And modern MPs are mostly cowards. They are preoccupied with keeping themselves in office above everything else. They are very unlikely to bring their gravy train to a stop on a point of principle.

The only scenario that might knock the government over is if a large enough group left the party, formed a new party and that new party began polling well enough to give them the confidence that they could hold onto their seats. But I don't see a new party sprouting from Labour, because there's no-one with the charsima or popular support to make a success of it.
 
I'm in the Wetherspoons next to the station waiting for my train.
Pint of Doom Bar.
Prince Harry is on one TV, snooker is on the other.
Judd Trump is one frame up.
A red faced man with a head like a thumb orders steak and kidney pudding.

I close my eyes and inhale the scent of England.

Stale beer and vinegar.
 
Anything that breaks the two party system, controlled opposition or not, is a good thing in my book. Surely if Reform won a majority they would keep their promise to bring in a fair voting system.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
Weekly report from northern gammon pub: "this is why I can't rent a house, these fucking immigrants"

People are pissed, the time of the uni party has passed
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I'm in Scotland a lot and it's not hit there yet but just wait. The UK government will be shitting themselves right now and the Scottish government will be keen to gargle on migrant cock to desperately show they're not like us racist English. They're going to turn all of Scotland into Rangers fans just to own the chuds.
 
Smyrna said:
Anyway, here's some cope from a sitting Labour MP.

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His party doesn't even claim to want to address any of the issues people care about. FFS their leader is a human rights lawyer who spent his entire career engineering the broken legal system that floods us with boat niggers every day. The delusion is laughable.

I spent today in the office around sheltered coworkers who seemed utterly shocked that the proles aren't voting how they're told to any more. It was very hard to hide my power level.
 
Mound Dweller said:
Dude is one of the whatsapp "kill the poors" suspendees lol, he's even more fucked than the rest of them, no wonder he's coooping off the chain.
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The guy makes my skin crawl because he represents everything I despise about politicians. He joined a political party as a teenager, did a politics degree at uni, and then worked for the Labour party until being parachuted into a reasonably safe seat. His ilk contribute exactly fuck-all to the world, and should be nowhere near positions of power.

Plus he's a homosexual and likely got the job by bumming middle aged men, like half the politicians we currently have.
 
Feathers McGraw said:
into a reasonably safe seat
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You're bang on except for that bit; Burnley is the very definition of a swing seat, in the last decade it's gone Labour-Libdem-Tory-Labour-probably Reform next time.
There's a lot of places just like it too, but acknowledging the disconnect between what people actually fucking want/will vote for and how it does not align with preconceptions is dirty topic still.
 
Feathers McGraw said:
The guy makes my skin crawl because he represents everything I despise about politicians. He joined a political party as a teenager, did a politics degree at uni, and then worked for the Labour party until being parachuted into a reasonably safe seat. His ilk contribute exactly fuck-all to the world, and should be nowhere near positions of power.

Plus he's a homosexual and likely got the job by bumming middle aged men, like half the politicians we currently have.
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Mound Dweller said:
You're bang on except for that bit; Burnley is the very definition of a swing seat, in the last decade it's gone Labour-Libdem-Tory-Labour-probably Reform next time.
There's a lot of places just like it too, but acknowledging the disconnect between what people actually fucking want/will vote for and how it does not align with preconceptions is dirty topic still.
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Not to PL too much, but I spent ~10 years living in that constituency. It swung Libdem during the "I agree with Nick" phase, and swung Tory for the "get Brexit done" election, but otherwise has only ever been Labour since the war. It perfectly epitomises the failure of the Labour party as they have slid from being the party of the working man to being the party of the homosexual metropolitan elite. No political party that represents the working class should ever lose that constituency.

I hope you're right that similar towns will also make the shift towards Reform. Today's results should be a gigantic wake-up call for Labour, but they're probably beyond saving for the foreseeable future.
 
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