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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.

 

[Crunkle]

To anybody who thinks that Russia wouldn't destroy the UK, a Twitter/X user called 'Jim Royle' posted earlier today the vast differences between the combined might of the UK and Russia.

The TLDR is Russia would flatten us in an hour.

In terms of nuclear might, sure. But infantry and ground-level? Not a chance.

The ancient Russian tanks from the Cold War era and the amount of stolen Thales gear wouldn't last the boat ride. Not to mention a huge chunk of Russian fighters being children with next to no training besides being meat shields.

If HS2 is any indication then we'll only end up with 3 new subs 10 years late and £50b over budget.

It'd be frightening to imagine the cost to us to upgrade our training and gear too. We can't even get an ambulance to a pensioner within eight hours, how would we be expected to upgrade and modernise our army? No chance, at least not under the Tories or Labour. I don't usually like this defeatist way of thinking but it's hard to think of much else.

 

[Otterly]

To anybody who thinks that Russia wouldn't destroy the UK, a Twitter/X user called 'Jim Royle' posted earlier today the vast differences between the combined might of the UK and Russia.

The TLDR is Russia would flatten us in an hour.

I’m sure they could but then what? Russia doesn’t want to go through Finland, Sweden and Norway. Their rich have their fortunes invested here in property which requires a stable government (lol.)
Although frankly they could just gets some RIBs and float across the channel and we’d give them free housing. …

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Could you imagine them trying to round up gen z to go fight for them? Gen Z have been the most beat down and plainly screwed over by the system at the moment and now some dip shit in an ill fitting suit wants to send them off to a country which they wouldn't even be able to place on a map to go die in some ditch.

Could you for a second just imagine the violent back lash the zoomers would have to this on both the left and the right? They would be rioting for different reasons but both agree on the point of "I'm not going to die for this shit hole".

Never mind not at all being ready to fight a war, we couldn't even get any one willing to fight for us, especially not our youth who hate this country with a passion.

We had an army, season in battle after Iraq and Afghanistan. Now we’ve got generals and admirals promoted during peace. We have office jockeys running things now not soldiers.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I know the conversation has moved on, but I'm still mad that the government got into trouble for this. I ideally don't want anyone to commit suicide, but what she did was one of the dumbest things imaginable while in control of a school: She wasn't vetting people who were being employed by the school. They would have no knowledge that Mr Biggins moved from Gateshead for perving on kids, they would have no knowledge that Miss Smith has 14 counts of domestic abuse, they'd have no knowledge that Mr Henderson is still on probation for plowing into group of Liverpool fans, they'd have no knowledge that Miss Ashoo doesn't actually have a teaching qualification etc.

She knew she was beyond fucked, she was absolutely going to be fired (after a long drawn out process) which would result in her pension being in danger, and anyone who knows headmasters/mistresses know that they've spent the past 20+ years grinding at their fucking school job to get the accreditation to get that job. Their one key skill is gone, no school will take them on after this, their pension is probably fucked.

Instead Ofsted got reamed over telling a fucking idiot to the point of criminality that they were a fucking idiot to the point of criminality.

Well I'm as late replying. But in large part it's because the facts of the review got buried. People invented some stuff entirely that they claimed is in there and those lies continue to be repeated as fact even when the review is presented to said liars.

 

[Made In Wales]

We had an army, season in battle after Iraq and Afghanistan. Now we’ve got generals and admirals promoted during peace. We have office jockeys running things now not soldiers.

Exactly, and we'd be begging the USA to help us out.

I hope Trump would tell Starmer 'no way, you want this war - you fight it alone.'

The EU would only help out if we then unilaterally obeyed them without hesitation and question.

If Russia really wanted to fuck Starmer over (ooerr!) then they could do so without any civilian casualties - I think they know a lot more about seedy Starmer than even we do at present.

I’m sure they could but then what? Russia doesn’t want to go through Finland, Sweden and Norway. Their rich have their fortunes invested here in property which requires a stable government (lol.)
Although frankly they could just gets some RIBs and float across the channel and we’d give them free housing. …

I would not be surprised if some of the dinghy folk weren't KGB operatives, at this point.

I think that Starmer is hell bent on national suicide.

 

[FedPostalService]

To anybody who thinks that Russia wouldn't destroy the UK, a Twitter/X user called 'Jim Royle' posted earlier today the vast differences between the combined might of the UK and Russia.

The TLDR is Russia would flatten us in an hour.

They can’t even flatten a nation of farmers and cam girls, you retard.

Russia is a nation of alcoholics and junkies and wouldn’t last 4 minutes against a battalion of Big Baz fueled on Greggs.

Log off Twitter and stop following “Russia Stronk” accounts. Also, stop posting here as it’s distracting you from your real police work,

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Russia would 100% be able to bomb the shit out of us, but likewise they're 100% going to get the shit bombed out of them. The idea that we'd need to fight a conventional war on land, against Russia is Henny Penny alarmism. Would we last in a conventional war? No, fuck no, absolutely not lol. We have a lot of very good, very expensive and very hard to replace gear that would get attrition'd into the dirt inside of 6 months. We can't build more of it, and we can't buy more of it since everyone else is also having shortages. Would Russia be able to get to us? Also fuck no lol. What are they going to do? Drive tanks all the way to the channel and then boat them across under withering fire? To what end?

"Oh Ivan, we have conquered all of Europe, now we vill garrison it with what's left of our army. It's a real shame that the motherland is radioactive ruin now."
'Is okay though, because we turn all of Europe into radioactive ruin as well. So when Americans come to kill us, they will eventually get cancer!'

In a hypothetical 'Both sides are on a completely empty minecraft server, with no ocean between them, would Russia beat the UK?' then the answer is pretty clearly yes. But since we live on modded minecraft, the question itself is retarded and pointless.

 

[Made In Wales]

They can’t even flatten a nation of farmers and cam girls, you retard.

Russia is a nation of alcoholics and junkies and wouldn’t last 4 minutes against a battalion of Big Baz fueled on Greggs.

Log off Twitter and stop following “Russia Stronk” accounts. Also, stop posting here as it’s distracting you from your real police work,

Whatever you say, Emily Maitlis

Russia would 100% be able to bomb the shit out of us, but likewise they're 100% going to get the shit bombed out of them. The idea that we'd need to fight a conventional war on land, against Russia is Henny Penny alarmism. Would we last in a conventional war? No, fuck no, absolutely not lol. We have a lot of very good, very expensive and very hard to replace gear that would get attrition'd into the dirt inside of 6 months. We can't build more of it, and we can't buy more of it since everyone else is also having shortages. Would Russia be able to get to us? Also fuck no lol. What are they going to do? Drive tanks all the way to the channel and then boat them across under withering fire? To what end?

"Oh Ivan, we have conquered all of Europe, now we vill garrison it with what's left of our army. It's a real shame that the motherland is radioactive ruin now."
'Is okay though, because we turn all of Europe into radioactive ruin as well. So when Americans come to kill us, they will eventually get cancer!'

In a hypothetical 'Both sides are on a completely empty minecraft server, with no ocean between them, would Russia beat the UK?' then the answer is pretty clearly yes. But since we live on modded minecraft, the question itself is retarded and pointless.

Well said.

Russia has no reason to invade us anyway, and if anybody disagrees with 'Jim Royle' over the numbers then they can tell him.

Even if we spend more on our under-funded military immediately, people are not going to sign up and neither left or right will sit by and allow Starmer to mandate that people are press ganged and kowtowed into fighting a pointless war.

That will be the bridge too far and Labour will then be in fear of people tuning against them.

The Crime and Disorder Bill and the Migrant and Border Bill are being held back until the Autumn, possibly in the hope that the 150 or so Labour MP's can be 'worked on' so that they don't rebel against Starmer.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I do agree, but look at the salaries for Army roles for instance. You either have to be really dedicated to joining or just have no other options left to you. If we were really serious we would start by making it a worthwhile option to join the army in the first place.

There was a time when joining up was more than just the lure of shooting pakis in a desert. It was a life, it was a change to become 'someone', to have skills on how to be a real man, how to be independant, how to be fast, strong, confident, how to be a leader of men and to follow and recognise leaders amongst you. Plus the jollys all over the place fucking loads of foreign birds while getting pissed as a fart for free was pretty good.

Now? No cock pictures or taking the piss out of your mates for being gay, which was 90% of the banter in the forces. Beards are allowed, which is scruffy as fuck, you can't shout, touch or threaten trainees, new recruits or anyone who gives you shit (From what I've heard, I left many years ago when it was still a laugh).

In terms of nuclear might, sure. But infantry and ground-level? Not a chance.

Russia would annihilate modern-day Britain. 20, 30, 40 years ago, any ruskies landing on our shores would be take a long nap it in the atlantic.
Don't fall for the western rhetoric that russia, and similar ex soviet-union countries are third world shit holes. Their ethos is function over form, vs our western ideology of form over function.

I’m sure they could but then what?

Exactly this and it's why the idea that Russia will invade Europe, let alone the UK, is laughable.

They can’t even flatten a nation of farmers and cam girls, you retard.

You need to log off of twitter. Putin has no intention of taking the whole of the Ukraine and never has. The geopolitical plan for russian global dominance doesn't look at Europe until the very end of the plan.
As for not beating farmers and cam girls, well, they did, they killed 400,000 of them and caused a population collapse while getting stinking rich from pointless sanctions. That's not to mention that Ukraine is armed with western and Israeli weapons.
After 3 years of Eu, US and whoever the fuck else saying "we stand with Ukraine" and "here's more money and weapons" how can anyone with a single fucking brain cell look at the situation and say "ukraine winning, hurr durr".
Also, if Ukraine are winning, why the fuck is zelensky desperate for a cease fire?

I know, I know, it's easy to call me a putin cock sucker and a russian bot rather than look at the facts that I don't give a single fuck about either country. I am just sick to death of fucking morons swallowing the same levels of bullshit and propaganda spewed by the same media that just a few years ago told us that; masking up would stop the spread, two weeks locked inside would stop the spread, the vax is safe and effective, one and done, two and you're fine, two and a booster, two and two boosters and you'll still get covid, Liz the lettuce, don't look back in anger, grooming gangs don't exist and on and on. Because their stupidity is becoming my inconvenience and I'm sick of it.

 

[Made In Wales]

I get called the same @Bog-standard Poster and it's not about being 'pro Russia' but being realistic.

As you say, why should we believe these self same experts who cried wolf with the pandemic and couldn't back up their arguments with the most basic of facts?

I fear Starmer's stupidity more than I do Putin's wrath.

 

[A-Logato]

You need to log off of twitter. Putin has no intention of taking the whole of the Ukraine and never has. The geopolitical plan for russian global dominance doesn't look at Europe until the very end of the plan.
As for not beating farmers and cam girls, well, they did, they killed 400,000 of them and caused a population collapse while getting stinking rich from pointless sanctions. That's not to mention that Ukraine is armed with western and Israeli weapons.
After 3 years of Eu, US and whoever the fuck else saying "we stand with Ukraine" and "here's more money and weapons" how can anyone with a single fucking brain cell look at the situation and say "ukraine winning, hurr durr".
Also, if Ukraine are winning, why the fuck is zelensky desperate for a cease fire?

The war in Ukraine has already been lost and the loser is Ukraine and they know it. Why do you think Ukraine has been trying escalate the whole thing as of late? They really want to do something to try drag the rest of Europe into it as well. The biggest thing this war has achieved is a massive amount of weapons now being in circulation all over Europe which are mostly in the hands of terrorists and gangs and you can thank Ukrainians selling off these shipment of weapons for a quick buck for that.

Calling it now (if it hasn't already happened). There will be a mass shooting in the UK at some point and the gun used will be one given to the Ukrainians by the US which has then been sold to god knows who.

 

[Otterly]

Russia are a convenient bogeyman. They drive subs round the scandi archipelago and the swedes use it as training. They fly planes around our borders and the RAF use it as training. The last time the Russians had a go at Finland it ended fairly badly for them. Russia know that hitting any Western European country will see them blasted into a smoking ruin - they want the bits around the crimea, the RISK board stuff for Eurasian dominance is a pipe dream to get military funding and let generals feel good about themselves.
Russia is not engaging in a land war against Western Europe. It’s not happening. Will they poison the odd dissident and continue various shenanigans? Yes, they aren’t our friend and we shouldn’t treat them as such. But the idea that Russia is going to launch a land war like it’s the 1490s is not happening.
It’s something tovarisch starmer uses to frighten the children.

 

[redlenses2112]

To anybody who thinks that Russia wouldn't destroy the UK, a Twitter/X user called 'Jim Royle' posted earlier today the vast differences between the combined might of the UK and Russia.

The TLDR is Russia would flatten us in an hour.

Whatever comes to happen, I do hope they level all and any 'postmodern' hideous dwellings on top of all the glownigger ones.

I'm not even being spiteful; it would only be beneficial for humanity to get rid of this like this: The Scottish Parliament building is literally a hidden merchant.



The Welsh parliament building is equally grotesque.


King Arthur would set siege to that devolved Welsh parliament structure because its an affront and abomination upon those lands.

They can’t even flatten a nation of farmers and cam girls, you retard.

Russia is a nation of alcoholics and junkies and wouldn’t last 4 minutes against a battalion of Big Baz fueled on Greggs.

Log off Twitter and stop following “Russia Stronk” accounts. Also, stop posting here as it’s distracting you from your real police work,

You sure seem weirdly upset that Russia doesn't have tranny kids for you to sodomize out of "love." You really should fuck off back to Bluesky; I'm sure the child groomers in there will be far more receptive to your 800lbs ass and your No True Scotsman-ing.

 

[-Jack-]

Whatever comes to happen, I do hope they level all and any 'postmodern' hideous dwellings on top of all the glownigger ones.

I'm not even being spiteful; it would only be beneficial for humanity to get rid of this like this: The Scottish Parliament building is literally a hidden merchant.

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King Arthur would set siege to that devolved Welsh parliament structure because its an affront and abomination upon those lands.


You sure seem weirdly upset that Russia doesn't have tranny kids for you to sodomize out of "love." You really should fuck off back to Bluesky; I'm sure the child groomers in there will be far more receptive to your 800lbs ass and your No True Scotsman-ing.

Russia is stronk, Russia is gigachad, traditional family values, super moral! Russia should take over the world, fuck the UK! reeeeeeee!

Fucking vatniks and ziggers.

 

[Crunkle]

Jenrick's leadership campaign seems like such a waste of effort, considering his seat would be lost to Reform. Same with Badenoch.

Are there any safe Tory seats left to even parachute a future leader into?

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[Mound Dweller]

This is just fucking embarrassing, simping for gyypos now, really?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/a...uckle-fighter-whiskey-6d358hzpj?region=global/https://archive.is/6hzS9

Spoiler: Liz Truss appears in whiskey advert with fighter jailed for pub attack

Liz Truss has been accused of a “serious lapse” in judgment after appearing alongside a convicted bare-knuckle fighter in a promotional video to help plug his Irish whiskey brand.

The former prime minister was seen in the video, posted on Instagram, attending a dinner party with Dougie Joyce.

Joyce, a high profile member of Manchester’s Traveller community who once boasted of being “the next Tyson Fury”, was jailed in 2023 for causing grievous bodily harm after attacking a 78-year-old in a pub. Police described him as an “aggressive and violent man”.

Joyce was captured on CCTV repeatedly punching a man in a Manchester pub
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In the clip, Joyce, 36, handed Truss, 49, a bottle of Joyce’s Irish Whiskey and said his catchphrase: “Just remember, Dougie Joyce loves ya.” Truss smiled and responded: “Liz Truss loves you.”

A source told The Sun: “Liz Truss either doesn’t understand the implications or doesn’t care. Either way this is a serious lapse. She’s a former prime minister and has to be extremely careful who she associates herself with.”

The source questioned whether anyone had carried out “due diligence” before her appearance alongside Joyce. Another source told the paper that Truss had not been paid to appear at the event last month, at Scunthorpe United Football Club’s stadium.

A spokesman for Truss said: “Liz attended the Scunthorpe event to support the people working to regenerate the town and Scunthorpe FC. I thought the government believed in the rehabilitation of offenders.”

Writing on X, Truss accused The Sun of “trashing my attendance at the Scunthorpe United FC Stadium Weekender — an event I attended to support the town and the football club”.

In November 2023, Joyce was sentenced at Manchester crown court to 19 months in jail for causing grievous bodily harm. Joyce admitted the offence, in which his victim was seriously injured during an assault inside a Manchester pub in 2022. Joyce followed the victim into a back room, before punching him in the face three times and knocking him off his seat and into the seats next to him, causing him to bleed.

Detective Constable Natalie Hollows said after sentencing: “Joyce is an aggressive and violent man who intended to intimidate and inflict pain on a vulnerable 78-year-old man by carrying out this horrendous assault.

“Joyce was wearing a large, gold, pyramid-style ring when he punched the man in the face, causing him significant injury due to the size and shape accelerated by force and the series of punches he endured.”

When he appeared in the Amazon show The Joyce Family Documentary in 2022, which features the “world of the travelling community”, Joyce said: “The way I’ve been taught all my life is you fight fire with fire. You learn how to defend yourself and that’s it.”

This is so cringe there's even an editorial callout;
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/th...-truss-poor-judgment-whiskey-antics-fg9m7xwtf/https://archive.is/32Pj1

Spoiler: Liz Truss is demonstrating poor judgment in her post-PM antics

During his quiet retirement, after a brief 363 days as prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home devoted his days to salmon fishing. After an unremarkable but dignified stint in Downing Street, the aristocrat briefly turned commoner retreated to his grand Scottish estate — catching as many as 64 fish in one day. His biographer noted: “There was no sudden moment when he abandoned politics.” Sir Alec simply faded quietly into history.
If only the same could be said for Liz Truss, who occupied No 10 for a mere 49 days, a seventh of Sir Alec’s tenure. Ms Truss, who is destined to linger as a pub quiz curio for the distinction of being the country’s shortest-serving prime minister, has little sense of how to retreat into private life gracefully. Although her premiership was marked by reckless incompetence, that now appears like a model of Disraelian equanimity compared with her desperate antics in her post-parliamentary life.

After preaching wild excuses about why her abject failure was everyone else’s fault, Ms Truss has now taken to promoting Irish whiskey alongside a convicted thug. In a bizarre video, Ms Truss is seen brandishing a bottle of the hard stuff alongside Dougie Joyce, who was jailed for 19 months after beating up a 78-year-old man. On social media, he said it was “a great honour” to host Ms Truss. In response, she adopted his catch phrase for herself: “Just remember, Liz Truss loves ya.”

Is this really the best way for the former leader of a G7 country to spend her days? Despite her short time in office, the former prime minister is entitled to a six-figure allowance for life, courtesy of the taxpayer. Given her consistently poor judgment since being unceremoniously dumped, Ms Truss would do well to follow Douglas-Home’s example and inject a little dignity into what remains of her public role. That should start with a long overdue period of silence, both offline and on.

I know, I know, it's easy to call me a putin cock sucker and a russian bot rather than look at the facts that I don't give a single fuck about either country. I am just sick to death of fucking morons swallowing the same levels of bullshit and propaganda spewed by the same media that just a few years ago told us that; masking up would stop the spread, two weeks locked inside would stop the spread, the vax is safe and effective, one and done, two and you're fine, two and a booster, two and two boosters and you'll still get covid, Liz the lettuce, don't look back in anger, grooming gangs don't exist and on and on. Because their stupidity is becoming my inconvenience and I'm sick of it.

N'wah I know you probably spent most of your life fearing the RED DAWN, but it's a spook

The rusgols have been trying and failing to zerg rush their fellow vodkaniggers for almost as long as they spent being lolocausted by the g*rms.
Their airfoce just got "all your base"'d by some delivery guys.
Their Black Sea flagship got sunk by a country without a navy, twice.

In an alternate universe where ziggerstan wasn't run by zegroes maybe the 20 gorillion glorious patriotskis swarming towards the Rhine would actually worry me, their one trick has always been winter + numbers, both of which are hard countered quite simply, Liz is still a lettuce and you need to re-moralized yourself bro.
Don't forget; "Liz Truss loves you"!

 

[Made In Wales]

Whatever comes to happen, I do hope they level all and any 'postmodern' hideous dwellings on top of all the glownigger ones.

I'm not even being spiteful; it would only be beneficial for humanity to get rid of this like this: The Scottish Parliament building is literally a hidden merchant.

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The Welsh parliament building is equally grotesque.
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King Arthur would set siege to that devolved Welsh parliament structure because its an affront and abomination upon those lands.


You sure seem weirdly upset that Russia doesn't have tranny kids for you to sodomize out of "love." You really should fuck off back to Bluesky; I'm sure the child groomers in there will be far more receptive to your 800lbs ass and your No True Scotsman-ing.

I remember being asked by a Welsh Labour member, years ago, what I thought of the design of the Welsh Assembly.

She cried when I said 'it looks like the gayest Sainsbury's store in history'.

I wouldn't miss that building if it vanished into the ether - the Welsh Parliament (if we have to have one) should sit in Machynlleth anyway.

Jenrick's leadership campaign seems like such a waste of effort, considering his seat would be lost to Reform. Same with Badenoch.

Are there any safe Tory seats left to even parachute a future leader into?

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I would not bet against Jenrick joining Reform UK.

Would he be a worthy successor to Nigel? Yes, I can see him as PM and Reform UK's leader.

As for Tories and Labour, hopefully soon we'll be talking of them in the past tense.

 

[Crunkle]

simping for gyypos now

Feed her to the pigs, Errol

I would not bet against Jenrick joining Reform UK.

It's interesting to see where he's going. He lost all that weight with the weight loss jabs but his entire playbook has been Johnson. I don't think he'll join Reform from the Tories, I think he'll probably become leader and decide on a pact with Reform. Maybe as deputy PM, because Reform hold all of the cards here.

 

[Mound Dweller]

the Welsh Parliament (if we have to have one) should sit in Machynlleth anyway.

Do the Wealas have a version of the Anglo tradition of commoner assemblies? The Cantref thing seems very autocratically post Roman.
If anything you should Anschluss back Pengwern/Ergyng (the Severn is a better boundary than Offa's Dyke and we're better off without h*refordshiteshire, fight me) and slap the centre of administration in Wroxeter.

Feed her to the pigs, Errol

She needs to fuck off, gone from solid "would" to utter "could not, even if I really tried" off of grift cringe alone.

 

[redlenses2112]

Russia is stronk, Russia is gigachad, traditional family values, super moral! Russia should take over the world, fuck the UK! reeeeeeee!

Seething tranny hands typed this.

I remember being asked by a Welsh Labour member, years ago, what I thought of the design of the Welsh Assembly.

She cried when I said 'it looks like the gayest Sainsbury's store in history'.

I wouldn't miss that building if it vanished into the ether - the Welsh Parliament (if we have to have one) should sit in Machynlleth anyway.

Ultimately that building is about as peak globohomo as it gets, and fitting since neolib servant Tony Blair imposed it during his time in government. At his masters' bidding, he took the Scots and Welsh MPs out of Parliament where they could speak up for their constituents on an equal footing and seduced them with (far removed from power) vanity project parliaments, which have to be subsidised from England.

Anyway, more architectural sperging: Birmingham's city centre, England, 1967

The rebuilding of the UK's second largest city was complete by the late 1960s. Like lots of other post WW2 UK city redevelopments, the age old Birmingham streets were bulldozed to make way for Modernist "utopian" concrete Brutalism and "International Style" structures that have no relation to the history, culture or even aesthetic interests of the wider British public nor the lives of the local "Brummies" who lived in the area.



It seems to be an attempt to kill off the city. Dehumanise and depopulate it by design.

For contrast here's Birmingham in the 1950s before the redevelopment scheme. Vibrant, full of people, none of the postmodernist gutter trash --



This is central Birmingham in the 19th century with its pragmatic Victorian architecture. Not exceptional but characterful and anchored to relatable people in a specific time and culture --



This is the view of Birmingham's Old Square in 1985 (in keeping with the 1960s Modernist redevelopment) --



But this was the same Old Square in the late Victorian period. Look what they destroyed --



Lastly, this is Birmingham's New Street Station in 1890. An understated marvel of Victorian ingenuity where architecture meets engineering --



Here it is today. A temple to Postmodern "secular" architectural incompetence and indolence --


This is the station's exterior. Nothing says Britain is under the control of a parasitic ZOG regime that wants only to degrade and destroy, so much as this gaudy, tasteless piece of shit. IMO it looks like the bastard offspring off a 1970s mirrored disco ball and a decaying whale carcass with some sort of gross vaginal opening --