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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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Big Judge Cock said:
I haven't been to Europe in a long time, are their towns as ruined as ours? Have their governments intentionally spread the diversity to the rural areas? I've had a quick look around in Brittany for example and can't see an infestation of "turkish" barbers and vape shops, and not many browns roaming the streets. I'd like to go touring but am trying to work out where to avoid.
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Rural areas are generally safe with a few exceptions. Around fast food, you're going to see jeets working the tills and working for those mobile delivery apps. You also see them around town centres in groups in-front of bus stops or just loitering rather than dispersed out(always dressed in full black sports wear.), but as residents in villages they don't seem to exist. I have been seeing more and more turd-worlders at the local market though and I have a uncle that's been saying the same about car-boots(British flee markets).

With those Turkish barbers your talking about they are money laundering schemes, everyone on England knows they are along with import sweet shops from what I've heard, but where I am I haven't seen one. The Turkish barbers though are absurd. The local row of shops around me has two right next to each other and then like a street down is another. I never see anyone in there and somehow they still exist after a few years,
 
Big Judge Cock said:
I haven't been to Europe in a long time, are their towns as ruined as ours? Have their governments intentionally spread the diversity to the rural areas? I've had a quick look around in Brittany for example and can't see an infestation of "turkish" barbers and vape shops, and not many browns roaming the streets. I'd like to go touring but am trying to work out where to avoid.
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Belgium....
 
Snekposter said:
Ah, I love the delicious taste of Bongoid cope whenever they desperately pretend the War of 1812 was a success and not ultimately a failure since they were forced to a draw against their former subjects despite their prior and well-demonstrated ability to make the entire European continent beg for mercy. Its the only food worth eating from your entire misbegotten island.
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We were busy defeating Napoleon. A relief force of red coats and a bunch of farmers fucked you retards up.
 
>IMPLYING said:
Here's what they want, and it sounds fucking horrifying.
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Have a palette cleanser
French police have waded into shallow waters off a beach south of Boulogne and used knives to slash an inflatable small boat - packed with men, women and children - that was wallowing, dangerously, in the waves.

All those onboard clambered to safety as the boat collapsed in chaotic scenes.

The intervention was highly unusual.

French police usually follow strict rules that bar them from going into the sea in case they put lives at risk.

"Let's go in," said one of the gendarmes, pulling off his body armour, and taking out a small knife. His colleagues took their heavy armour off, too, placing equipment in the back of a nearby police car before rushing into the water.

There had been some speculation that this rare incident could be evidence that the French police - under growing pressure to stop a surge of small boat migrant crossings to the UK - are changing their tactics.

But they have made it clear to the BBC that police have not adopted any new tactics in dealing with small boat launches, that the rules forbidding intervention in the water remains in place and officers must continue to prioritise safety on the beaches. They are allowed to intervene, however, if they believe lives are at immediate risk.

Well-placed sources in France have told us that the procedural changes now being considered will almost certainly focus on the use of patrol boats at sea to intercept the "taxi-boats" before they're fully loaded, rather than on approving more aggressive interventions from police on the beaches.

The UK prime minister's official spokesman said the images of French police destroying a boat were "a significant moment and we welcome this action".

"We want to see tougher action taken, that's precisely the focus of our work, it is the outcome of that close work that you've seen," the spokesman said.


A few metres offshore, the boat itself was clearly in trouble. People were crowded around the outboard motor, which had briefly stalled but was being restarted.

Waves were breaking underneath the boat, causing it to lurch wildly, and there were loud screams from several children who were in danger of being crushed onboard.

Earlier, two large groups of people already wearing orange life jackets had emerged from the nearby dunes and rushed towards the sea.

In all there were probably 80 or 100 people. But when the first "taxi-boat" - used by the smuggling gangs to collect passengers from various points along the French coast - sped past perhaps 100m from the shore, it was clearly full already and did not stop to pick anyone else up.

A few minutes later, a second boat, with almost no passengers, came towards the shore, watched by a French coastguard boat further into the English Channel.

Initially, people were ushered forwards in organised groups, holding hands, and directed by one man who appeared to be leading events.

But as the inflatable boat turned and reversed towards the shore, there was a scrum as dozens of people scrambled to climb aboard in water that was at least waist deep.

At first the gendarmes declined to intervene and stood watching from the shore.

One officer repeated a now-familiar explanation to me - that they were barred from going into the water except to rescue people.

But as the situation became increasingly chaotic, the officers at the scene clearly felt that a line had been crossed, that those on board were now in danger, and that there was a brief opportunity to disable the boat in relative safety and while any smugglers - who might have fought back - were distracted by their attempts to restart the engine.

As a policeman slashed repeatedly at the rubber, there were cries and shouts of anger and frustration from some of those onboard.

A young girl, who had been in the middle of the scrum, squashed at the stern of the boat close to the engine, was plucked to safety as others scrambled on to the nearby sand.

Moments later the boat was dragged ashore by the police as the migrants began collecting items they had dropped on the beach and then headed inland, up the sandy paths through the dunes towards the nearest village and a bus-ride back to the migrant camps further north.
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It's well past time the French are allowed to stab back. There will be a lot of NGO shrieking about this tomorrow.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
It's well past time the French are allowed to stab back. There will be a lot of NGO shrieking about this tomorrow.
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My main suspicion is that the BBC were there to film it.

They also aren't going to make this the norm unfortunately, they're just going to do what they've always been doing, but more of it.
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We need to catch these NGOs helping through, definitely. I would honestly imagine people smugglers giving people more bang for their buck honestly, any gyppo can buy a boat. The fact they're all wearing life jackets when the smugglers are meant to be "dangerous" also sticks out me: why would they give a shit and/or provide jackets?
 
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why would they give a shit and/or provide jackets?
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Because the business model isn't actually providing a ferry service; it's to provoke a rescue and abuse it to do the transport for you, classic perverse incentive, except this time it's lifejackets instead of cobra heads. The whole nonsense scenario is only occurring because it's being allowed to happen in the first place, the conversation shouldn't be about physically stopping boats (though they should be doing that as part of basic border security anyway it's a red herring in and of itself); it should be about removing the reason to launch them in the first place. Kill the pull factor killer combo of deliveroo woggery/ECHR asylum and it'd very suddenly not be worth it and the problem would naturally dissipate.

Does queef stomper even bother to defend the ECHR silliness anymore (does anyone?) or is it another one of those "we don't talk about that"isms now?
 
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Well if there's one thing I've learned about Leeds today - at one point they used to be with it, then certain people forcibly altered what "it" was. Now what Oldloiners are with isn't it, and what's "it" is fucking terrifying.
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It'll happen to youuuuuuuu!!!
Made In Wales said:
Yet more bad news for 'Have A Seat, Keith'...


Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/sU1EK

If it's not him cocking things up (ooerr missus!) then it's his rotten bunch of MP's!
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The corbynites striking again. They've become a coherent and powerful wing within the party. Functionally, the true opposition.

bluegenius8585 said:
Why doesn't he just get rid of Lewis and the rest of the Corbyn crowd.
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They make about a third of the PLP. Getting rid of them would remove Labour's majority and could potentially collapse the government. I suspect, if nothing else happens, they'll either hive off by themselves in a couple of years, or they'll force a leadership challenge on a shorter timescale. They're powerful enough to do it, for the moment.
 
Mound Dweller said:
Does queef stomper even bother to defend the ECHR silliness anymore (does anyone?) or is it another one of those "we don't talk about that"isms now?
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Opinions of the ECHR are irrelevant because Blair made it so that the ECHR would apply regardless of whether we left it or not in 1998.
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This gives the civil service the impetus to act against the desires of the government unless it's in legislation first, and even then it's not assured.
The Rwanda scheme was ultimately brought down by this legislation (despite it being retarded to begin with but I digress) because it's a backdoor for the ECHR to fuck us and it had to be written in such a way that it acknowledges the overall supremacy of the Human rights act and thus the ECHR.
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Sunak, also, obviously didn't leave the ECHR after they objected to this and thus stopped it being carried out.
 

Youth Demand halt London Pride parade as pro-Palestinian protesters hurl paint and block roads.

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Youth Demand, a group described as young people "stepping up to resist this nightmare", were seen to cover the front of one London Pride truck with orange paint before sitting down in protest on the parade route.


Disrupting the Pride event at after 2pm, the group were targeting the float of technology firm CISCO - a sponsors of London Pride.

Hitting out at the tech firm's "long standing partnership with the Israeli military" the protest group accused the firm of enabling "the mass murder of Palestinians".

At least six protesters were seen blocking the parade group, before a video uploaded to social media shows two being taken away in handcuffs by police shortly after the incident.
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'orange' paint
 
teriyakiburns said:
It'll happen to youuuuuuuu!!!

The corbynites striking again. They've become a coherent and powerful wing within the party. Functionally, the true opposition.


They make about a third of the PLP. Getting rid of them would remove Labour's majority and could potentially collapse the government. I suspect, if nothing else happens, they'll either hive off by themselves in a couple of years, or they'll force a leadership challenge on a shorter timescale. They're powerful enough to do it, for the moment.
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It's like popping a boil/spot - do it too soon and you'll risk scarring or reinfecting it, but do it too late and you'll need antibiotics.

Lewis knows that he can misbehave and that if Starmer 'pops' him he can threaten to 'expose all' about Labour and cry to the MSM as a 'victim' of 'nasty bully Keef'.

Starmer has to hold the party together as leader, but he is failing badly at this and when a lot of his own MP's will willingly rebel against any Government motion (even if whipped) this shows that he has lost control.

I know I mention GE a lot, but it may even be in Starmer's interests now to have one, de-select anybody not completely loyal to him, and go for broke. When he loses, so what - he'll still be a millionaire many times over and he'll still make a fair whack doing tours.

Starmer does want power, but doesn't want the shit that comes with it (even if most of it is his fellow Front Benchers) and when there's no cohesion or good relationship between the leader and the backbenchers then this is a major crisis point, as how can you have faith in the leader when he inspires no faith and has none in you anyway?

I'll be watching what happens over the recess with interest - a lot of people are now sensing that change is coming and that one day Starmer will cross the point where even his acolytes are saying 'no, we need whole-scale change.' I might be blindly optimistic, but there is definitely something going on out there in the ether of British Politics - are we close to the 'V for Vendetta' moment?

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Youth Demand halt London Pride parade as pro-Palestinian protesters hurl paint and block roads.

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Bunch of homophobes.

If only we could turn the Gays against the Twats...

Maybe say that Palestine Action receive funding from JK Rowling...
 
Otterly said:
And more! There’s something really rotten in Leeds, like it’s some kind of outpost of hades
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While I spent more time in London and Manchester, work did bring me to Leeds for a stretch, long enough that I was able to form an outsider's opinion, and it was easily the most bizarre city I've ever been to in England. The first thing that struck me was that I found the indigenous underclass to be especially unpleasant so much so that they were honestly just as bad if not worse than most of the immigrants, excluding the Roma who were fucking everywhere. I actually had more hassle off of the white lads in Leeds than I did blacks or pakis, which was the exact opposite of literally everywhere else.

The city also seems to be either a magnet for the mentally ill and sexually deviant, or it produces them in some underground facility somewhere. The amount of freaks I saw walking around Leeds City Centre in the span of a few days put parts of London to shame over a span of months. And it wasn't just the quantity of them either, the individual severity was something to behold as they were almost always out and proud sex pests, old men wandering around in women's underwear and fishnet suits, men wearing latex fetish gear, and more insane trannies than you could shake a stick at.

And speaking of trannies, there was a lot of weird alphabet shite going on. The amount of "queer spaces" that the city had was crazy, and the people that frequented them were on a completely different level of degeneracy than the everyday fags you'd see in say Manchester, Edinburgh, or Bristol.

As you say, something about that place just doesn't feel right. I actually felt really on edge a lot of the time I was there and everyone around me seemed to be on the verge of a fight or flight reaction, not somewhere I'd ever want to go back to.

(EDIT: Almost forgot, it also had some of the worst urban driving I've ever seen. I was almost ran over by cars mounting the pavement to undertake traffic, twice.)
 
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Made In Wales said:
Bunch of homophobes.

If only we could turn the Gays against the Twats...

Maybe say that Palestine Action receive funding from JK Rowling...
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Is there going to be the general election you keep predicting on Monday morning; or are all your posts a massive cope from a person that has spent too much time sniffing the arse of Reform?
 
Cheb Dagness said:
Is there going to be the general election you keep predicting on Monday morning; or are all your posts a massive cope from a person that has spent too much time sniffing the arse of Reform?
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A massive cope?

Oh dear, an ad hominem from the start - not a good opener.

If you had been bothered to look at my posts, if it's actually within your intellectual capacity, then whilst some of my posts infer that one is likely the majority are about news items which may or may not be of interest.

It's okay if you cannot think too much, I wouldn't wish you to suffer a brain injury.

'You sniff the arse of Reform' well I am sure that Reform's arse must be infinitely more pleasant than the diatribe posted by yourself.

I am merely looking at the facts and pointing that the way things are going the odds on a GE are very good, based on the inefficiency of the current Government and their poor standing in the polls.

No country has lasted long with an unstable Government and when Starmer's own MP's are demanding a regime change (which he will not have and he'd sooner go to meet with King Charles III) then the writing is very much on the wall - even Sir John Curtice (somebody who is an actual political brain) has intimated that it could be very possible that Starmer could be gone soon if he cannot or will not change course. Of course, Starmer's immaturity and pomposity will mean there's no changing course until the iceberg is hit and the rats start deserting the ship big time.

Now, I say this kindly...

If you and others don't think that there will be a GE until 2029 then fine, I accept and respect that. I won't try to change your minds, and with respect I doubt what they say will change mine.

However, if you try and suggest that I have no right to say that I believe there will be a GE soon, then I'll have to ask why you think this and what your reasoning is - as I have posted mine, I'd expect to see your worked out reasoning as well.

If you don't want a GE, fair enough, some do and some believe it is entirely possible that there will be one soon.

'Oh but there has to be five years until the next one'

This is a fallacy which some on the socials have gotten very wrong - the current shortest gap between GE's is only nine months with the longest being eight years (between December 1910 and December 1918). As recently as the years 2015-2019 there were three General Elections (one planned and two called - one by May and one by Johnson over Brexit).

'Starmer would be mad to call one'

Unless he has no choice but to do this or he knows that his and the Government's popularity will reach a point where even his closest advisors and acolytes are saying 'we can't go on like this'. The resignation of just 80 of his MP's would result in a Minority Government and Starmer would have to seek to enter into an emergency coalition with another party and there is no guarantee that this would be successful - the 'red line' with the Lib Dems and the Greens would be that Starmer would have to stand down and, as a narcissist, he'd never agree to this. Alternatively, why not call one and clear the party of those MP's not loyal to him, and try to regain power? A gamble, but then he does this on his terms and at least his exit strategy can then be 'the people have spoken, they didn't want me, therefore I'm gone.'

'You just want Reform UK in charge'

Me and about 35% of the electorate, compared with the dwindling % backing Labour and the Tories.

However, I don't want a GE just for my sake, I want it because it's now a necessity and even people who wouldn't normally allign with Reform UK/The Far Right are demanding change - the Left are just as keen to see Starmer go as the Right and a lot of them too want a GE in the hope that their side wins.

It's not about me or my ego (I don't like ego-centric people, what I say can be read and dismissed without it affecting me - I am not that petty that I'd be angry people disagreed with me, and thankfully Kiwi Farms is way more mature than Reddit and Political Xitter) it's about the bigger picture.

The Left want Davey/Denayer, with some wanting Corbyn and the ultra Far Left to win.
The Right want Farage as the national saviour.

Whilst I believe Farage would get cose to 400 seats, I would not take anything for granted and if Davey or Denayer did well during purdah and applied the pressure on Reform UK it could be a lot closer.

'Wouldn't Labour just win again?'

If anybody believes that, they should be demanding a GE too in order to prove Reform UK and its voters wrong. IMO they'd die a lingering death and be lucky to get one seat.

'Wouldn't a GE open up the door to Trump, Putin and Farage creating a power triad?'

You mean that a UK-USA-Russia potential partnership would piss the EU off? So what?

'Starmer was elected with a big majority though?'

Note the word 'was' - a lot has changed in a year. On current form, he'd lose the GE and would be lucky to retain his seat.

In the end, only time will tell if I am right. If I am not, then I will live it down, but if I am then I'm certainly not going to go 'haha told you lot it'd happen'.

Let's see what happens over July and August...
 
Tragon Dirtle said:
Youth Demand halt London Pride parade as pro-Palestinian protesters hurl paint and block roads.
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nooooo, not the consequences of their own actions! if only some group of people had been warning them for a decade or more that importing a bunch of hajis and pajeets was only going to destroy their liberalized white society and lead to an islamic theocracy! but, alas, cassandra was simply a bigot.
 
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