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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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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
You think that's good? Just wait another two weeks and the very news agencies giving the counter terrorism team even FAINT praise will be calling them scum who deserve to hang because it'll be the 20 year anniversary of the Charles de Menezes shooting.
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Or there'll be another 'incident'.
 
Some Afternoon news for your perusals:

Benefits fraudster dodges jail despite claiming £76,225 they were not entitled to:

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Palestine Action defies terror ban by setting up secret website to recruit new members amid further planned protests:

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State pension 'nightmare' for elderly Britons as millions to be hit with tax raid next year:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/eYw3d

Sadiq Khan doubles down on car ban plans as millions risk tougher driving conditions - 'Make it the future':

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/eFNYR
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Do you think they intentionally don't record the ethnicity of terrorists so they can deny it's a mostly brown problem?
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I saw a tweet from Spiked just now that said since 7/7 Islamic terrorists have killed 95 people while the far right has killed 3 but you wouldn't know that from the news. So yea it wouldn't shock me if they didn't record the ethnicity of terrorists (unless white) so they can fudge the numbers.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
Explicitly singles out illegal immigration as a problem. Yet another washed up establishment Tory who doesn't grasp that the issue is the 10 million wogs, not how they arrived here
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This is the ratchet effect I was talking about a few pages back. Now all government has to do is stop the '50k illegals' while waving on millions of 'legals'.

Hell, there's already plans in place between the UK and france to make the boat people legal, thus ending illegal migration over night and what, you want to send back people who have been here years? Wow, what a literal far-right-hitler-racist-fascist-nazi.
 
Made In Wales said:
More good news for Reform UK:

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A turncoat Tory who's also a freemason former-solicitor.
Wonderful.
Lmao.
I'm not worried wholly about a handful of Tory MPs joining Reform to dilute it (every Tory defector thus far has been alright if unfortunately quiet regarding Lowe) but I hope this doesn't arrest Reform's development from the bottom up regarding rhetoric.
 
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A turncoat Tory who's also a freemason former-solicitor.
Wonderful.
Lmao.
I'm not worried wholly about a handful of Tory MPs joining Reform to dilute it (every Tory defector thus far has been alright if unfortunately quiet regarding Lowe) but I hope this doesn't arrest Reform's development from the bottom up regarding rhetoric.
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I don't believe that it will, though we do need younger people (Jenrick types) to join us.

@Geoff Capes Vapes Apes Well said, and this needs to be the mantra with Reform UK. A lot of the Tories know this, but dare not say it for fear of losing their seats.

As Summer progresses, I think we'll see more cross-overs into Reform UK as they are the Government-in-Waiting and whenever the call comes they will have to be ready.

We're getting to the point where most people will at least be able to reason that Reform UK will be more beneficial for them than Labour, and in many aspects we are ahead of our time here as nobody expected Labour to be this bad.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
I'll hold my nose and vote Reform in the absence of a more robust choice, but what's needed is Operation Communion Shoes, not civ-nat multi-cultural poofery
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I agree, and I'm hopeful that once elected Reform UK will do this.

I can understand getting experienced heads in, but we need more young strong leaders in the ranks.

Our numbers are good, for now, and going into the recess that is going to panic Starmer (as well as a lot of other things) because at no point in recent political history has a 'minor' party outflanked and bettered the sitting Government.

Didn't happen with Churchill, Attlee, Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Two Weeks Liz or Sunak, but has with Starmer.

Oh, and switch off your phones just before 3pm if you're in the UK on September 7th:

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Kofi Drinka said:
Do you think they intentionally don't record the ethnicity of terrorists so they can deny it's a mostly brown problem?
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Depends how far back they stopped recording those details, the Irish only just stopped bombing Britain 30 years ago. Besides it's only a Muslim problem now, because western governments have let them in on mass and set up shop.

Do you think the IRA would have been successful in their bombing run if Ireland was on the other side of the world rather than a 2 hour boat ride away?
 
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