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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

 

[FedPostalService]

This is Sheffield, England's new mayor

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Everyone who has been to a Greggs knows where Sheffield is. We didn't need your fat burger juice stained finger to type "England."

Yankee go home.

 

[Mound Dweller]

>Gaybour
I rest my case.

 

[Smyrna]

Patrick O'Flynn (journalist, former UKIP/SDP MEP) has passed away.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

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>Gaybour
I rest my case.

I continued to be proven correct that the pakis have taken over. Once they have enough power, a call to arms will go up and it's game over.

They've already started the predictive programming of islamic ways of life by polluting TV and the Internet by glorifying polygamy, mainly by showing men with multiple beautiful white wives so that the idea becomes appealing.
They're also quietly pushing propaganda to get women to cover up. At the moment it's clothing the extreme whores in society, but it will creep to having to wear a head scarf.

 

[Mound Dweller]

I continued to be proven correct that the pakis have taken over. Once they have enough power, a call to arms will go up and it's game over.

In their dreams I think, look at who the chief executives are; the Von Papens of this scenario, except they've got their pet retards firmly on the leash.
They are however an eager bunch and will jump the gun, there's no great plan here, only steady inevitability.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

They are however an eager bunch and will jump the gun,

They've been raping kids since 1980. Nothing was done.
They can jump the gun nowdays and not only will nothing will be done, they will be protected and those arguing against it will be jailed.

Look at Southport. Radged paki turns up with a machette, locals rightly cross, police push the locals around while protecting the paki, then the media never mentioned any of it.
Or the sky news reported who was assault live on camera, nothing happened.

Pakis can rape, rob, murder with impunity and nothing happens. Not only does this happen against whites, but against Hindus, Sikhs and eastern europeans as well.

 

[Mound Dweller]

They've been raping kids since 1980. Nothing was done.
They can jump the gun nowdays and not only will nothing will be done, they will be protected and those arguing against it will be jailed.

Look at Southport. Radged paki turns up with a machette, locals rightly cross, police push the locals around while protecting the paki, then the media never mentioned any of it.
Or the sky news reported who was assault live on camera, nothing happened.

Pakis can rape, rob, murder with impunity and nothing happens. Not only does this happen against whites, but against Hindus, Sikhs and eastern europeans as well.

You are embracing demoralization; they are a protected caste right now because they are useful tools and must be appeased, not because they themselves have power in their own right.
The second they outlive their usefulness we'll see who really has the knife at whose throat.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

You are embracing demoralization; they are a protected caste right now because they are useful tools and must be appeased, not because they themselves have power in their own right.
The second they outlive their usefulness we'll see who really has the knife at whose throat.

You're assuming that pakis are tools being used by someone else. They're not. They and the islamic world have realised the west are cowards and don't want a fight. Since Charlie Hebdo, the western world has publically cowtowed to them. All they need to do is threaten to go blowy-uppy, stabby or car rammingly and politicians shit their pants.

 

[Made In Wales]

You're assuming that pakis are tools being used by someone else. They're not. They and the islamic world have realised the west are cowards and don't want a fight. Since Charlie Hebdo, the western world has publically cowtowed to them. All they need to do is threaten to go blowy-uppy, stabby or car rammingly and politicians shit their pants.

Not just the Mudslimes but the Far Left Whiteys as well.

If the Right Wing threatened to do this, or did this, then Starmer would Khmer Rouge anybody who didn't agree with him and the establishment's way.

That would include a lot of those who voted Labour last July.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The attempts to whitewash Kid's Company continue

https://archive.ph/C6SC9

A watchdog report into Kids Company, the children’s charity set up by the late Camila Batmanghelidjh, was “irrational”, “unfair” and “one-sided” in key criticisms it made of the way the charity was managed, a court has ruled.

Nevertheless, although the Charity Commission admitted it made errors and would have to rewrite parts of its inquiry report, published in 2022, the judge refused to quash it, and upheld other criticisms the watchdog made of Kids Company.


Although both sides said the ruling vindicated their positions, a separate ruling on costs by the judge, Mr Justice Sheldon, said: “In substantive terms, it seems to me that there was no overall winner or loser in this case.”

Alex Goodman KC, the lead counsel for the supporters of Kids Company, who brought the legal challenge, said: “We are hugely relieved and pleased with this judgment, which provides long-overdue vindication for Kids Company. This robust decision addresses fundamental wrongs and restores fairness and accuracy to the narrative.”

The Charity Commission said the ruling had largely vindicated its inquiry report, saying: “Today’s high court judgment has upheld our finding of mismanagement of the charity’s finances and has confirmed that it was based on ‘ample evidence’.”

Kids Company was one of the UK’s best-known charities when it collapsed in 2015 after unfounded media reports of abuse. It had been praised for its pioneering work in London, providing practical, emotional and educational support for thousands of severely traumatised children caught up in poverty and gang violence.

Batmanghelidjh, its charismatic founder, subsequently endured years of political and media vilification before being dramatically exonerated in a high court ruling in 2021 that praised her achievements and paid tribute to the charity’s trustees.

The Charity Commission’s inquiry report into the collapse of Kids Company published a year later caused surprise when it delivered a formal finding of “mismanagement in the administration of the charity”, triggering the legal challenge by Batmanghelidjh that led to Tuesday’s ruling.

Lawyers for Kids Company, whose former clinical director Michael-Karim Kerman continued the challenge on behalf of Batmanghelidjh after her death in 2024, argued the commission’s report was vague and superficial, ignored positive findings of the previous year’s high court ruling, and “perpetuated stigma” around the charity.

Sheldon ruled the commission’s criticism of Kids Company’s management of payments to children in its care amounted to “innuendo” and was “extremely unfair”. He also concluded that a separate criticism of Kids Company’s trustees’ running of the charity was “irrational”.

Sheldon said: “Although the commission has a discretion as to what to include in the report of a statutory inquiry, that discretion must be exercised lawfully. Creating such extreme unfairness would not be lawful: in public law terms, it is irrational.”

But he upheld the commission’s conclusions on other aspects of the management of the charity, including its handling of client records, claims it made about the number of beneficiaries it supported, and its handling of a payroll issue. He rejected allegations the commission had predetermined the outcome of its inquiry.

He said: “I do not consider that the report, looked at as a whole, was irrational. The fact that the report contains errors, and even a small number of irrational findings or observations, does not mean that the overall document is irrational.”

Kerman said he would continue to “carry on the fight for justice for all those who have been stigmatised by the untruthful narrative [about Kids Company] created by the media and the actions of various government bodies since the charity’s closure”.

He said: “Since Kids Company’s traumatic closure in August 2015 there has been a concerted attempt to denounce unfairly the charity and all who were touched by it, whether in the capacity of staff, volunteer, supporter or one of the thousands of vulnerable young children and families the charity served for nearly 20 years.”

The government continue to flush taxpayer funds into London for Sadiq to mess around with. Oh, I mean "end homelessness by 2030"

https://archive.ph/6HNHT

The mayor of London has said he will end the "trauma" of people who have to be sleeping on the streets before they can access support.
He aims to ending rough sleeping by 2030, and has secured £17m in capital funding from central government for his strategy.
Sir Sadiq Khan said when a mayor works with the government, "real progress can be made, and that's the game changer".
But Lord Bailey, City Hall Conservatives' housing spokesman, said if the mayor wants to solve homelessness "that involves tackling the housing crisis, which he has failed to do - now Khan needs to force the government to do more".

According to the Trust for London, the number of people sleeping rough in London was almost 12,000 in 2023-24.
The charity's figures show a threefold increase in people sleeping on the streets last year than in 2008-09.
Sir Sadiq told BBC London: "For the first time, we have a minister for homelessness coming with us on this journey.
"They have already announced £17m to support us in terms of this mission - on top of the record £10m I announced in January."
The government funding will be used to open a new Ending Homelessness Hub, that provide 24/7 support to those most at risk of sleeping rough, and expand the Homes off the Streets programme by refurbishing up to 500 empty homes.
The mayor said he will end the current requirement for Londoners to be seen sleeping on the streets before they can access support, and to ensure that those at greatest risk of rough sleeping are helped early, based on their specific needs.
City Hall's rough sleeping budget is £44.8m in 2025-26, a fivefold increase on 2016 when the mayor took office.
Challenged on a recent announcement that the mayor and the government agreed a cut of more than 6,000 homes to the affordable homes programme, Sir Sadiq said it was a "consequence of the previous government's [actions]".
"The consequences of interest rates and construction costs going high. The consequences of a hard Brexit, the consequences of the delay caused by building safety."
He added that over the past nine years "we've taken off the streets of our city more people than ever before, more than 18,000".

Lord Bailey said "press releases full of fake concern and small sums of money to window dress this issue are not enough".
He added: "Londoners are suffering on the frontline of this, as are the councils who support them - because Khan and the Labour Party won't do enough.
"Dealing with rough sleeping is pushing council budgets into the red across the city as the issue becomes worse and worse."
Emma Haddad, chief executive of homeless charity St Mungo's, said rough sleeping "is a crisis and should not be a prerequisite for help".
She added: "Many of our clients face long-term mental and physical health needs, which can increase the risk of homelessness and make it that much harder for people to get the support they need.
"We're also seeing more people locked out of an increasingly unaffordable private rental sector, exacerbated by poor supply of housing and intense demand for it."
City Hall said the mayor's new strategy would include specialist services that recognise the needs of particular groups of Londoners, such as those who face additional barriers to accessing services due to high support needs or uncertain immigration status.

'Not the first to pledge action'​

Analysis by Karl Mercer, BBC London political editor
He may be the latest mayor to promise to end rough sleeping, but Sir Sadiq Khan is not the first.
A year after becoming mayor, as he launched his new London Delivery Board, Boris Johnson had declared: "It's scandalous in the 21st century that people have to resort to sleeping on the streets."
He promised to end rough sleeping in the capital by the time the Olympics were coming in 2012.
He failed, even though he re-visited the issue in his winning 2019 manifesto on the national stage - promising to end rough sleeping by the end of the next parliament.
He failed again.
Sir Sadiq's pledge is to end it by 2030 - promised during his election-winning campaign last year - but promised against statistics that show the problem is actually on the rise.
In 2017-18 - a year after he took over at City Hall - there were around 7,500 rough sleepers annually, prompting the mayor to say a year later that he was "embarrassed and angry" that so many were on the streets.
After rising to a then-high of 11,018 in 2020-21, numbers did fall.
But they have been on the rise for the past two years - and last year reached an all-time high of 11,993.
That, at a time when funding on rough sleepers initiatives has gone up from around £8m to around £45m.
Setting a deadline and targets will certainly focus minds on the issue, but rough sleeping is probably just the most visible sign of London's homelessness problem.
Last week, London's major housing associations told BBC London they're building 66% fewer affordable homes than they were two years ago - blaming high prices, tougher building regulations and the high cost of maintaining their current homes.
A day later the government and the mayor agreed a 22% drop in the target for affordable home building in the capital.
The mayor's focus will be on trying to prevent people ending up on the streets in the first place - but he will know delivering many more homes will also be a key part of any sustainable future plan.

Labour cancelling their woman's conference rather running it in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling

https://archive.ph/qhlTP

Labour is to cancel its national women’s conference and restrict all-women shortlists as it awaits full guidance from the equalities watchdog, sparking criticism from trans rights and gender critical campaigners.
The party’s governing body, the national executive committee (NEC) will meet on Tuesday to sign off plans to cancel the women’s conference, which was due to take place before the party’s annual conference in Liverpool in September.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim advice, published after the supreme court decision that the term “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, has suggested that voluntary organisations should apply that rule.
The NEC has been told the party is at risk of a legal challenge by going ahead with the conference, according to LabourList, and could face protests and direct action if the conference goes ahead as usual on the basis of self-identification.

Guidance to the NEC also advises that “all positive action measures relating to women in the party’s rules and procedures shall be interpreted on the basis of biological sex at birth. Guidance shall be issued to all party units and relevant stakeholders to this effect.
“The party will work with individuals and local parties affected by the judgment to resolve specific cases with sensitivity and compassion, acknowledging the significant effect the judgment will have had on many people.”
The gender critical group, Labour Women’s Declaration, said it was wrong to cancel the conference, calling it a “knee jerk reaction” and “incendiary action.” The conference acts as a policy-making body on particular issues affecting women.
“It would be exceptionally disappointing if our party, which strives to be a grown-up and serious political force, and a strong government, could not find the courage to run this conference as planned and run it in accordance with law which was introduced under a Labour government,” the group said. “Women deserve better.”
Cancellation of the conference is likely to be costly and the NEC document notes there are “impending contractual commitments for services in connection with the event that involve significant expenditure”.
LGBT+ Labour, Labour for Trans Rights and Pride in Labour issued a joint statement condemning the changes and urging NEC members to vote against them.
“The Labour party must set an example and stand on the right side of history,” the statement said. It added that the proposals were “not effective ways to ‘clarify’ anything”.
“We would also question whether the exclusion of trans women from Women’s Conference is a proportionate means to achieve a legitimate aim, as trans issues have come up time and time again during the conference, this seems to completely remove trans people from that debate. It is a blatant attack on trans rights and is seemingly an attempt to isolate trans people even further within the Labour Party and the labour movement more widely.”
LGBT Labour’s trans officer, Georgia Meadows, said: “Trans people are already greatly underrepresented in British politics, and if passed, this decision by the NEC will further harm trans people’s ability to engage with the democratic process and make them feel unwelcome at a time when the trans community is increasingly under attack.”
A Labour party source said the party would respect the supreme court judgment and would comply with statutory guidance once published. Ministers will consider the EHRC code of practice when a draft is submitted.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

What's all this about Israel? Are Starmer and the EU teaming up to answer the Jewish Question?

Please tell me I'm not right in saying Starmer is clown world Hitler.

 

[Mound Dweller]

You're assuming that pakis are tools being used by someone else. They're not. They and the islamic world have realised the west are cowards and don't want a fight. Since Charlie Hebdo, the western world has publically cowtowed to them. All they need to do is threaten to go blowy-uppy, stabby or car rammingly and politicians shit their pants.

Yes this is a cultural vulnerability of a (formerly) high trust society, it's been overrun with hostile microbes now of course.
The immune response isn't been fired off not because it's incapable but because it's actively suppressed, it's a cost/benefit thing IMO, one that'll tip the other way sooner or later and look really obvious in hindsight.

The attempts to whitewash Kid's Company continue

Honestly surprised ms batman didn't get a Saville moment when she died of being F A T, god knows she was gaudy enough;

 

[Made In Wales]

This is where I think Starmer may go 'off script' and his handlers will be bricking it.

The ECHR is daring to oppose Starmer, a man who cannot abide being opposed because 'don't you know who I am, I'm Ronnie err.. Keir Starmer!'

Starmer's pompousness will mean that he will not like to be taken down a peg or two by a higher power than even he is... I can see it now...

ECHR: 'Mr. Starmer, you know the rules, you have to obey us. Failure to do so will only impact badly on you...'

Starmer: 'I'm the leader of the UK, you cannot tell me what to do - I will simply not allow it!'

ECHR (developing a Jo Frost voice): 'Actually you will do as we command because our power outranks yours and you will be compliant.'

Starmer (turning into a tantrum throwing toddler): 'WAAAH! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO FASCIST PIG, I HATE YOU! MUMMY! IF I CAN'T WIN, THEN AFTER LORD ALLI REMOVES MY PAMPERS NAPPY I'M GOING TO TAKE THE UK OUT OF THE ECHR! I MUST WIN! (STAMPS FEET) MUMMY... ERR ALLI!'

ECHR: 'You're pathetic, and as a result a gazillion more migrants are heading your way. You don't have the balls, literally speaking, to leave us plus that would mean you have to call for that thing which would make Nigel Farage the next Prime Minister. Now, know your place and be a good WEF slave as before.'

Scorched earth, and I don't blame the weather.

 

[FedPostalService]

If the Right Wing threatened to do this, or did this, then Starmer would Khmer Rouge anybody who didn't agree with him and the establishment's way.

They’ll lock you up for disagreeing with the Establishment online. It why we are here with VPNs. Letting normies use the internet was the biggest mistake ever.

 

[Made In Wales]

Yes this is a cultural vulnerability of a (formerly) high trust society, it's been overrun with hostile microbes now of course.
The immune response isn't been fired off not because it's incapable but because it's actively suppressed, it's a cost/benefit thing IMO, one that'll tip the other way sooner or later and look really obvious in hindsight.

Honestly surprised ms batman didn't get a Saville moment when she died of being F A T, god knows she was gaudy enough;
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She reminds me of Carolyn Harris (Swansea East MP. also looks like an obese clown).

I remember this story well and that Batmanghelidjh had also worked for Common Purpose under the equally odious Julia Middleton.

Middleton looks like the result of what happens when Soyjak fucks a pig and the pig gives birth.

 

[FedPostalService]

The attempts to whitewash Kid's Company continue
https://archive.ph/C6SC9

You conned the entire establishment and they’re still trying to cover for her. Who does she have photos of?

Anyone who has had any professional interaction with the public sector should have been able to take one look at her and see what a retarded she was along with her being a con artist but people destroyed their own careers rather than admit she fooled them all.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

You conned the entire establishment and they’re still trying to cover for her. Who does she have photos of?

It's not about her or the charity. It's about the charities themselves which, like NGOs, serve as ways to funnel money out of the taxpayer's hands into policies they do not support, campaign for causes with no public support and manipulate people.

Kid's Company is a big, recent and insultingly obvious one that an idiot could see was a scam that destroyed the lives of those it claimed to be helping. That the Guardian continues to simp for it is pretty much the definition of "you do not hate journalists enough."

 

[Made In Wales]

It's not about her or the charity. It's about the charities themselves which, like NGOs, serve as ways to funnel money out of the taxpayer's hands into policies they do not support, campaign for causes with no public support and manipulate people.

Kid's Company is a big, recent and insultingly obvious one that an idiot could see was a scam that destroyed the lives of those it claimed to be helping. That the Guardian continues to simp for it is pretty much the definition of "you do not hate journalists up."

Common Purpose, DEMOS and The Fabian Society are all similarly minded.

Brian Gerrish has many great videos going back almost 20 years on Common Purpose - they're still active today.

The Guardian will run cover for those they're told to defend - it doesn't matter if the person is a thief, drug taker, sexual degenerate etc. if they need protecting, then they'll protect even to the point of assassinating the character of those who are doing the 'calling out'.

 

[Overdrive]

Thanks for all the insightful information on bread making and bumsex the last few pages lads, I've taken notes.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Camila Batmanghelidjh is a fun story, I remember when she was originally touted as the great charity person when she legitimately looked like a caricature of a circus tent.

It was a charity that was basically giving cash in hand to anyone who asked which meant it essentially helped to prop up immigrants living under the table, dole scum and the homeless and absolutely none of it was documented to the point where she probably got a nice big underhand pay deal as well.

I'm incredibly sceptical that she died too. She 'died' on January 1st shortly after celebrating her birthday (which isn't publicly disclosed). I think she fucked off back to Iran once the walls started closing in on her, maybe even doing a reverse migrant boat from Dover.