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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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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
I think that was a wake up call for all police since I can't recall police stations ever being targeted in past riots. In Northern Ireland that shit is probably routine but nowhere else in the UK even during the London riots a few years ago.
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Every police station in the country is always ready for this.
I know for a fact they have a notice with risk of attack level in them.
 
Made In Wales said:
SNP in second with 7957 - not very good for them in the long run, Krankie has wrecked them.
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Quite funny since the SNP kept harping on about how it's a two horse race between SNP and Reform. Interesting how the swing to Reform has come largely from SNP and Conservative voters. Is there much crossover between the SNP and Reform voters ?
 
BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
Quite funny since the SNP kept harping on about how it's a two horse race between SNP and Reform. Interesting how the swing to Reform has come largely from SNP and Conservative voters. Is there much crossover between the SNP and Reform voters ?
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There is some on certain issues, same as with Reform-Plaid and Reform-Lib Dems:

* Lower the cost of living
* Cut down on waste in public services
* More money and respect for Farmers (Plaid, to be fair in Wales, have backed the Farmers)
* Reforms to the Barnett formula and West Lothian Question
* Lower taxes (Reform want one flat rate) and greater flex for creative and green industries
* More transport links - possible extensions of tram networks and reopening of closed lines (such as the proposed Hirwaun extension in South Wales and the completion of the rebuild of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth line which Reform UK, Lib Dems and Plaid ALL agree on but Welsh Labout won't.

I also agree with Plaid, as a Reformer, that Wales should have its own referendum on leaving/staying in the UK. After all, it's only democratic given that nearly 10 years ago we had the Brexit vote.

The one thing Reform UK will not agree on is re-joining the EU. Joining an EFTA type agreement may be feasible, but not so as to get us back in to the EU under even more draconian controls.
 
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Asked by an audience member about worries the ruling could reduce the rights of trans people, another panellist, the barrister Naomi Cunningham, said trans people “will have to give way”, adding: “It can’t be helped, I’m afraid.”

Reindorf, speaking next, agreed: “Unfortunately, young people and trans people have been lied to over many years about what their rights are. It’s like Naomi said – I just can’t say it in a more diplomatic way than that. They have been lied to, and there has to be a period of correction, because other people have rights.”
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I wonder how well trannies will take the idea that other people have rights?

And who are the other people with rights? Ironically women, of which trans-identifying men are not classified as. picrel
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Zoot said:
I wonder how well trannies will take the idea that other people have rights?
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The use of "perceived" in the headline is very restrained by Guardian standards. Not too long ago that would have not been in there making it a very different headline.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
The use of "perceived" in the headline is very restrained by Guardian standards. Not too long ago that would have not been in there making it a very different headline.
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It wasn't there originally:
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Guardian changed it after the commissioner kicked off on twitter. sorry should have included that in the original
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Yes, I can see how it would be 'profoundly unhelpful' to point out that the things TRAs shrieked they were 'entitled to by law' for years were, in fact, things they were not and never had been entitled to. The Unforgiveable Curse of "transphobia" seems not to be working quite as well as it used to, eh.
 
Zoot said:
It wasn't there originally:
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Guardian changed it after the commissioner kicked off on twitter. sorry should have included that in the original
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That's the low quality I've come to expect. And it was wrong in the text of the article too.

I rather like Akua Reindorf for this. Peter Walker, the Guardian "senior political correspondent" must have been seething.

Edit - oh wow, Guaridan went with the ever popular Jane Fae for their voice of the trans side of the discussion and tried to hide who it was by sticking the name in lower case separate from the initial time the article mentioned
A director of the trans campaign group TransActual
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Edit 2: The Gurdian writer is losing an argument on Bluesky of all places about this

 
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TRA's never wanted rights, they wanted privileges which often came at the expense of everyone else. They wanted all the rights that came with being a man and a women along with their own special set of rights such as access to any bathroom or private space and special access to your children (ideally with no adults around).

The fact it's now been confirmed they were never inclined to any of it is not only a signs nature is healing but also that public sentiment at these looney troons is so low that the government has given up trying to play defence for them. My only gripe is that we've yet to see these laws be applied in any meaningful way, ideally with a tranny getting curb stomped and kneed on by a police office for entering the women's bathroom.
 
Smyrna said:
Here is Tice proclaiming that he does not care if white Britons become a minority and the country turns into South Africa or Brazil as he will be dead by then. A masterful combination of peak civnattery and unadulterated Boomerism.

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Peak boomer mentality. I never want to hear boomers come out with why the young ones hate their guts when this is the mind set they bring to the discussion.
 
Smyrna said:
Here is Tice proclaiming that he does not care if white Britons become a minority and the country turns into South Africa or Brazil as he will be dead by then. A masterful combination of peak civnattery and unadulterated Boomerism.

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A bit of a stupid thing to say, though I get the angle that after he's dead and gone why should it matter what he thinks.

It'll then be up to those of us still left to make a difference and, hopefully by then, civic and civil pride will have come back.

I would like the UK to be a fantastic country, once I'm gone, but when I'm six foot under or burnt to a crisp then my say is redundant.


Dawn French being a typically unfunny fat antisemitic cunt.
 
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A-Logato said:
Go type "Nigel Farage Muslims" into YouTube, watch a few videos on things he's said in interviews and then come back
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I WANT TO BELIEVE it's just kayfabe, I could totally imagine having a point with him right now, maybe Lowe is just a salty old man afertall, he did survive that helicopter crash... The UKIPnanobots have gotten to me.
 
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