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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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.

 

[Zoot]

For me the solution will lie in the rise of a white ethnonationalistic consciousness. So in a way anything that pushes that is good. All this brown Muslim protest shit on top of the rape gang stuff is definitely pushinig people towards the thing I think we need to win. white British Racial solidarity that just decides - this is our land we are in fucking charge

Edit: Despite thinking all the middle easterners can kill themselves for all I care, this Palestine Action stuff can be good for building white anger at the browns.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1937595824512323901

"NEW: The vote on the Government’s welfare reform Bill next week is set to be delayed as Keir Starmer’s aides look to find concessions to get the support of rebels."
-thetimes

I smell a u-turn, what a fucking bitch. Has one of the largest majorities in political history and cannot pass a bill through. The abortion and assisted murder bills barely passed through. His backbenchers hate him more than BoJo was in his final months

A GE would benefit Labour, as Reform would need to mobilize very quickly and I don't think they could honestly. Babadook is fucked now, her shadow cabinet despise her but won't eject her because they don't want to be called racists.

 

[FuckedOffToff]

stop uncritically repeating headlines from the daily mail

Don't stereotype me, just because I'm a woman, it doesn't mean I read the Daily Mail.
I get all my news from the local little birdies, kiwi birds, that are made in Wales, ackchuallly.

 

[Zoot]

This could cause some drama for the Palestinian Action ban. Jews going full psychopath mode in Gaza. They must be blood thirsty after the Iran battering.

At least 44 people killed after Israel opens fire on aid trucks in Gaza, eye witnesses report​

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Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza early on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people, witnesses and medics said.

The Awda hospital in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, which received the victims, said the Palestinians were waiting for the trucks on the Salah al-Din Road south of Wadi Gaza.


Witnesses told The Associated Press that Israeli forces opened fire as people were advancing eastward to be close to the approaching trucks.

"It was a massacre," said Ahmed Halawa. He said tanks and drones fired at people, "even as we were fleeing. Many people were either martyred or wounded".

Hossam Abu Shahada, another eyewitness, said drones were flying over the area, watching the crowds first, then there was gunfire from tanks and drones as people were moving eastward.

He described a "chaotic and bloody" scene as people were attempting to escape.

He said he saw at least three people lying on the ground motionless and many others wounded as he fled the site.

The Awda hospital said another 146 Palestinians were wounded. Among them were 62 in critical condition, who were transferred to other hospitals in central Gaza, it said.

In the central town of Deir al-Balah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said it received the bodies of six people who were killed in the same incident.

Palestinian witnesses and health officials say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on crowds seeking desperately needed food, killing hundreds of people in recent weeks. The military says it has fired warning shots at people it said approached its forces in a suspicious manner.

The deaths were the latest in Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has killed about 56,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Israel this current assault after Hamas' October 7 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 251 hostages.

Most of the hostages were released by ceasefire agreements.

 

[close]

It's us v them.

We're only ordinary men.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Nooooo you doooooon't understaaaaand you MUST constantly doom and gloom post, it's our culture! And you WILL assimilate to OUR values!

I think it's common amongst older people (40+) who watched the decline happen in real time and possibly lived through the good times, so they can't comprehend the upswing. They're compressing decades of slow entropy into being an immediate change whereas the upswing will be similarly slow and plodding like it actually was, but since it's not happening immediately they'll dismiss it. We'll only realise when things started to improve in hindsight, probably.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

First three album manics were brilliant. The Holy Bible is an all time classic imo

The Holy Bible, Journal for Plague Lovers and Everything Must Go are pretty much the only albums I'd consider 'great' with The Holy Bible standing head and shoulders above the other two.

Generation Terrorists and Gold Against the Soul had some bangers mixed in with absolute shite, and This Is My Truth was the beginning of their MOR dogshit britpop phase, with the only standout being the classic "If You Tolerate This". They had bits and pieces that were good from thereon in (like Journal for Plague Lovers, which was basically a bunch of Richey Edwards lyrics set to some music with 'bite' that had been sorely missed) but then they soon reverted to absolute dogshit. Their cover of 'This Is The Place' should have seen them lined up against a wall and shot.

Manics hold a special place in my heart as they were one of the first bands I got into but they dropped off something fierce and became a shit singles band that's a total parody of themselves. It was so strange watching them start off as a cross between a punk band and a glam rock band and eventually becoming more and more 'mechanical', culminating in The Holy Bible but after that Richey topped himself (at this point you'd have to be a total fucking retard to not grasp that leaving your car next to a bridge means you've jumped off) and that was the end of that.

They're probably the biggest 'what if' band other than if say Ian Curtis hadn't topped himself and Joy Division did that America tour (The early New Order stuff was fantastic and raw and Curtis would have absolutely thrived as the vocalist), they were at their technical and songwriting peak around The Holy Bible and then that was gone.

 

[Mound Dweller]

I think it's common amongst older people (40+) who watched the decline happen in real time and possibly lived through the good times, so they can't comprehend the upswing. They're compressing decades of slow entropy into being an immediate change whereas the upswing will be similarly slow and plodding like it actually was, but since it's not happening immediately they'll dismiss it. We'll only realise when things started to improve in hindsight, probably.

Nah man I think it's just old people being salty like they always are, Sumerian clay tablets were much the same, you're not getting out of it that easily oldies.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

Edit: Despite thinking all the middle easterners can kill themselves for all I care, this Palestine Action stuff can be good for building white anger at the browns.

IMO it won't I haven't heard it being discussed on the ground like either the gangs have been or the gaza protests which were upsetting people but like I said, have died down recently. The attitude towards this imo is well who wants to go to war? rather than seeing it as an extent of the groups of people screaming at you while you're trying to go to work. Like I've actually had to point out to people that it is the same people.

 

[Zoot]

The Holy Bible, Journal for Plague Lovers and Everything Must Go are pretty much the only albums I'd consider 'great' with The Holy Bible standing head and shoulders above the other two.

Generation Terrorists and Gold Against the Soul had some bangers mixed in with absolute shite, and This Is My Truth was the beginning of their MOR dogshit britpop phase, with the only standout being the classic "If You Tolerate This". They had bits and pieces that were good from thereon in (like Journal for Plague Lovers, which was basically a bunch of Richey Edwards lyrics set to some music with 'bite' that had been sorely missed) but then they soon reverted to absolute dogshit. Their cover of 'This Is The Place' should have seen them lined up against a wall and shot.

Manics hold a special place in my heart as they were one of the first bands I got into but they dropped off something fierce and became a shit singles band that's a total parody of themselves. It was so strange watching them start off as a cross between a punk band and a glam rock band and eventually becoming more and more 'mechanical', culminating in The Holy Bible but after that Richey topped himself (at this point you'd have to be a total fucking retard to not grasp that leaving your car next to a bridge means you've jumped off) and that was the end of that.

They're probably the biggest 'what if' band other than if say Ian Curtis hadn't topped himself and Joy Division did that America tour (The early New Order stuff was fantastic and raw and Curtis would have absolutely thrived as the vocalist), they were at their technical and songwriting peak around The Holy Bible and then that was gone.

I kinda stopped listening to them after everything must go, which was hit and miss for me. I haven't listened to any of their later albums.

Whilst I agree generation terrorists is hit and miss. I'm a big fan of gold against the soul but yeah, Holy Bible is their crowning achievement.

IMO it won't I haven't heard it being discussed on the ground like either the gangs have been or the gaza protests which were upsetting people but like I said, have died down recently. The attitude towards this imo is well who wants to go to war? rather than seeing it as an extent of the groups of people screaming at you while you're trying to go to work. Like I've actually had to point out to people that it is the same people.

yeah tbh that makes a lot of sense.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I kinda stopped listening to them after everything must go, which was hit and miss for me. I haven't listened to any of their later albums.

Whilst I agree generation terrorists is hit and miss. I'm a big fan of gold against the soul but yeah, Holy Bible is their crowning achievement.

See what I liked about Early Manics was that they were just pinballing different ideas and sounds together. They started off as a punk band and then did glam rock, then industrial, then sorta britpoppy stuff (which was mostly shit) and then they sorta had an experimental fake revolutionary punk era which was hilarious because they'd do gigs in Cuba and be all Viva Revolution and after that failed they were back to standard shit britpop. They weren't afraid to be experimental and try new things until suddenly they were boring old men and they had to do shit Greatest Hits tours.

Their B-Sides double album was fantastic because it was released before their absolute decline and was all over the place (even though it missed out some bangers like Patrick Bateman), and some of the covers they've performed have shown that they have some VERY interesting influences (their covers of Red Sleeping Beauty and Take the Skinheads Bowling are fantastic). For me, only early Muse comes close in terms of how many B-Sides they shat out in an afternoon could have easily became album tracks.

They're just an incredibly frustrating band. They're talented musicians who still have little glimpses of past glories but it's like they're missing an editor that tells them to fuck off and bin half an album. But who really cares because as long as they stick the lead single into their Greatest Hits tour they can pretend the rest of the album doesn't exist.

 

[EddyRooney]

Brexit was advertised to south asian communities as something to vote for because it would allow them to bring more of their friends and family over, while pushing the immigration control lies and nhs funding lies to white brits. Because that was what they wanted to happen. The conservatives are still pushing for more immigration behind the scenes, the infrastructure they set up to bring immigrants in is still there. Priti Patel and Rishi Sunak were previously promoted within the tories to make the UK look inviting to south asians, and Priti Patel was also involved with the useless Rwanda deal because she used to work there and has connections there.
Kemi isn't a last choice she's a first choice, they haven't changed at all.

The only migration I remotely consider nearly acceptable is the red line ( and then only if they are net contributors ) - so of course that's the one nose diving.
I saw the article on GB News tonight about the bloke who bought a house in Leeds for around £500k only for the council to buy up four houses in the neighbourhood and move in 6 Afghans per house.
At what point are people going to snap ? When is this going to erupt in violence ? I think I'd be paying my councillors a visit Basil style if they did that near me....

 

[>IMPLYING]

At what point are people going to snap ? When is this going to erupt in violence ? I think I'd be paying my councillors a visit Basil style if they did that near me....

2031
(Twenty thirty one - not sure if numbers violate the rules or not.)

 

[Made In Wales]

2031
(Twenty thirty one - not sure if numbers violate the rules or not.)

I think it may come round a lot sooner, but we'll see.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I think it's common amongst older people (40+) who watched the decline happen in real time and possibly lived through the good times, so they can't comprehend the upswing. They're compressing decades of slow entropy into being an immediate change whereas the upswing will be similarly slow and plodding like it actually was, but since it's not happening immediately they'll dismiss it. We'll only realise when things started to improve in hindsight, probably.

I saw the peak of western society and I reflect back on it now as being quite shit. Kids TV was full of nogs and groomers. The fashion was shit and the mass produced culture looks like the first part of the slippery slope. I am a miserable bastard (and my name is Edward "Eddie" Hitler BTW MI6) but I'm also a realist. When pro-white posters get excited for Reform and Reform start offering parts of the country up to brown oil barons I don't get the hype. It reminds me of the Trump first term where hype was making Trump out to be a saviour instead of a Jewish goon. It wasn't until someone tried to give him an extra air hole that he started to practice what he preached.

Reform has the potential to be a step in the right direction. It also has the potential to release the pressure because they talk big but act like the Tory party did when they get in power. The public think they elected anti-immigration and they just keep coming and coming and coming and coming.

Time is very tight. There will be false saviours and grifters trying to waste it. I think reform could be useful but I also know this is British politics and the Uniparty doesn't mean red or blue. It means every party and any alternatives that threaten it have to survive being taken over by ship jumpers wanting to steer it into the rocks.

I doxed you Wales. You're Womble McWomble from Wimbledom common. Time to get the thread highlighted for halal lolcows.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I doxed you Wales. You're Womble McWomble from Wimbledom common. Time to get the thread highlighted for halal lolcows.

Tenner bets he's Uncle Bulgaria

 

[Oxyjen]

A normal day in Britishland. This guy complains about a kiddy fiddling priest, sends a strongly worded email to his superiors in the church.

Cut to, guy: is handcuffed and dragged away in front of his kids, thrown in jail, computers confiscated etc.

 

[>IMPLYING]

When pro-white posters get excited for Reform and Reform start offering parts of the country up to brown oil barons I don't get the hype.

I think I gave a decent answer why here. A majority of Reform's MPs are more hardline than Farage regarding the issue of browns and are willing to go further than he is. He sacked Lowe but if he began slicing off more dissidents he'd kill the party and lose his grift. As we've seen with May and Truss, if the majority of the party doesn't like their PM they can just fuck them off (probably won't be Farage's fate but the possibility makes me smile).

The main hope is what comes if they win and the majority of MPs are ultimately in opposition to Farage, which is probably the case for the majority of Reform at the moment, Lowe was the only one who voiced his complaint and paid for it. They also represent a shakeup to the status quo, which a lot of people on the Right really need at the moment. Reform has 3 voices of pro-status quo pressure release bullshit (Farage, Tice, guy who replaced Yusuf) versus the other 3 (the rest of the elected MPs. formerly 4 with Tice) who actually espouse and push for the right things. And this group can't be underestimated, considering their push for Burkha bans went in opposition to Yusuf, who subsequently had to be demoted to Kent.

That's where a lot of my hope lies: every MP who joined Reform is better than those who formed it. Until more join, get seats, and utterly ruin it somehow (which isn't a guarantee, considering how MPs are selected in the country) I see no reason to be entirely despondent yet. And even if they're joining it to grift off a gullible voter base, their stereotype of a Reform voter is "hate immigrants, hate Muslims", which, well, it's a start and has them say the right things, even it's performative.

The biggest annoyance is time, and we're a bit off yet. Starmer being forced to resign would be hilarious, but we're still not guaranteed an election before 2029.

Edit:

The public think they elected anti-immigration and they just keep coming and coming and coming and coming.

I am genuinely of the mind that the Tories had no idea why they got elected and assumed it was entirely the result of the economy and copying Blair, a mindset they carried into subsequent elections, because nobody in parliament can use a fucking computer apparently. They even assumed this of Brexit too, Farage assumes this of Brexit. They don't have a fucking clue.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I am genuinely of the mind that the Tories had no idea why they got elected and assumed it was entirely the result of the economy and copying Blair, a mindset they carried into subsequent elections, because nobody in parliament can use a fucking computer apparently. They even assumed this of Brexit too, Farage assumes this of Brexit. They don't have a fucking clue.

They are very aware of what the public think of mass immigration. They just don't care.

 

[ChefKiss]

At what point are people going to snap ? When is this going to erupt in violence ?

There already is violence, especially in Ireland, the media just keeps quiet because they dont want people to get the idea that it works and start doing it more