UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

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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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.

 

[Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog!]

This bypass not only lets adults verify as an adult on multiple services, but it also lets you avoid sharing your face or credit card details with yet another third-party company. It also means you don’t have to pay for a VPN service to continuously bypass these age checks, as long as the service you want to access offers a face scanning option that falls victim to the virtual Sam Bridges.

Masterfully done by Kojima to have his game all about building connections between people allow actual people to keep their connections to others unrestricted. I think that's what Death Stranding was about. Might've been about peeing on people.

 

[redlenses2112]

Britain’s neoliberal regime may feature a two-tiered system of justice, but it serves a single purpose: the replacement of the British people by Fifth Worlders who mainly practice Islam.

For now, imported Muslims are still a minority. Nonetheless, the shitlib weenies in power has already begun to facilitate sharia law:

Nigel Farage has erupted over a job advert on the Government website for a ‘Shariah Law Administrator.’ The job advert was shared by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as a company called Manchester Community Centre seeks a legal assistant with a specialist knowledge of sharia law to help the area’s Muslim population.

Those who want to live in United Kingdom rather than Pakistan or Somalia have the police to deal with:

The government has been slammed for creating an elite team of police officers to monitor social media for anti-migrant posts. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage described the move as “sinister” and the start of the “state controlling free speech”.

The Home Office has created the National Internet Intelligence Investigations team, which will include detectives from across the country. Working out of the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) in Westminster, they will “maximise social media intelligence” to quickly identify signs of potential civil unrest.

There will be plenty of unrest if the UK’s survival instinct fully kicks in before it is too late.

Let’s hope Farage manages to stay out of jail. The UK is already well on its way to full-blown tyranny:

Lucy Connolly, a mother of one who is married to a Tory councilor, was jailed for 31 months over an inflammatory post after Axel Rudakubana killed three young girls.

The so-called “British teen” Rudakubana was born of colonists from Rwanda.
https://xcancel.com/GSGB01/status/1882350143586050284

 

[BongoMongo]

@Turkey Beef : worse, colonists who were actively involved in the Rwandan genocide, allowed to remain here because our PM got involved.

Edited to say: further worse: we allowed them here to have a life of ease and leisure, so much so, Rudabkanas father was going about playing at karate rather than parenting his son. Perhaps if he had been more involved his son wouldn't have done what he did.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

Leeds Jewish Housing Association development underway with helping hand from Lord Mayor​

The Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Dan (((Cohen))), has cut the ground on a highly anticipated Leeds Jewish Housing Association (LJHA) development of 28 affordable homes on the Queenshill estate in the north of the city.

The new properties – made up of 14 two-bed and 12 three-bed homes, a two-bed apartment and a one-bed adapted ground floor apartment – form the second phase of a two-phase Leeds LJHA scheme part-funded by Homes England. The first phase – opened in 2022 and named Best Housing Development at the Chartered Institute of Housing Northern Awards 2023 – comprises 85 new properties including 51 sheltered housing apartments for residents aged 55 and over, and 34 general needs apartments.

Phase two, known as The Island Site, is due for completion in spring 2026. Joined by Lady Mayoress Mrs Elayna Cohen, ward councillors, community representatives, project partners, LJHA Board members and residents, Councillor Cohen described the new development as “a landmark moment” which will provide “really needed affordable family homes.”

He said: “The contribution that the construction of these new family homes is going to make to the Leeds Jewish community, and to the wider community in delivering much needed family homes, is incalculable. Leeds Jewish Housing Association has a proud history, not just of delivering what the community needs in terms of housing, but it’s the quality of the housing, it’s the caring nature of the support of its residents.That makes me so proud, here in Leeds, to have Leeds Jewish Housing Association as part of the fabric of our community. I wish you every success.”

LJHA Chair Jonathan Shaw thanked the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress for attending and paid tribute to Sheffield Jewish Housing Association and the Brown family for their generosity, together with LJHA staff, volunteer board members and residents for their support on the project.

He told guests that the association’s vision is to provide

“good quality affordable homes primarily for the Jewish community.”

Although LJHA owns around 500 homes, Mr Shaw explained that only 37 were family houses with many families on a waiting list.

He said: “I am really delighted therefore, that leading Leeds construction company Jack Lunn are starting to build these 28 new homes for families in our community. These are families who will be able to live affordably in Leeds 17 to bring up their children with access to our synagogues, our schools, The Zone Youth Club and the MAZ Community Centre.”

LJHA Chief Executive Mark Grandfield said the new homes would link well with the completed phase one properties, each having their own separate lounge and kitchen diners, private gardens, private parking and future-proofed heating systems.

He continued: “With our last plot of developable land, we have created as many properties as viable whilst maintaining good quality homes with their own private space. They will replace some very tired properties and rejuvenate the Queenshill estate.”

Karen Bryant, Community Liaison Representative at Jack Lunn Limited, said she was proud to be partnering with LJHA on the scheme.

She said: “We are a local construction company, and this isn’t the first time our paths have crossed. Jack Lunn worked with Leeds Jewish Housing Association in the 1980s including building the Green Park scheme, a sheltered complex of 27 flats and bungalows for the over 55s. The quality of the building isn’t simply in the end product. It also comes through the thought, consideration and intention imbued in the project whilst it’s being constructed. As part of our commitment here, we’re also working as volunteers with St Gemma’s Hospice, and Leeds North and West Food Bank. At Jack Lunn, we don’t just build houses, we contribute to building communities.”

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[Jason_Cruiser]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 (Archive)

Spoiler: (Local archive)

I would like to thank all those who signed the petition. It is right that the regulatory regime for in scope online services takes a proportionate approach, balancing the protection of users from online harm with the ability for low-risk services to operate effectively and provide benefits to users.
The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible to enable UK users to benefit from its protections.
Proportionality is a core principle of the Act and is in-built into its duties. As regulator for the online safety regime, Ofcom must consider the size and risk level of different types and kinds of services when recommending steps providers can take to comply with requirements. Duties in the Communications Act 2003 require Ofcom to act with proportionality and target action only where it is needed.
Some duties apply to all user-to-user and search services in scope of the Act. This includes risk assessments, including determining if children are likely to access the service and, if so, assessing the risks of harm to children. While many services carry low risks of harm, the risk assessment duties are key to ensuring that risky services of all sizes do not slip through the net of regulation. For example, the Government is very concerned about small platforms that host harmful content, such as forums dedicated to encouraging suicide or self-harm. Exempting small services from the Act would mean that services like these forums would not be subject to the Act’s enforcement powers. Even forums that might seem harmless carry potential risks, such as where adults come into contact with child users.
Once providers have carried out their duties to conduct risk assessments, they must protect the users of their service from the identified risks of harm. Ofcom’s illegal content Codes of Practice set out recommended measures to help providers comply with these obligations, measures that are tailored in relation to both size and risk. If a provider’s risk assessment accurately determines that the risks faced by users are low across all harms, Ofcom’s Codes specify that they only need some basic measures, including:
• easy-to-find, understandable terms and conditions;
• a complaints tool that allows users to report illegal material when they see it, backed up by a process to deal with those complaints;
• the ability to review content and take it down if it is illegal (or breaches their terms of service);
• a specific individual responsible for compliance, who Ofcom can contact if needed.
Where a children's access assessment indicates a platform is likely to be accessed by children, a subsequent risk assessment must be conducted to identify measures for mitigating risks. Like the Codes of Practice on illegal content, Ofcom’s recently issued child safety Codes also tailor recommendations based on risk level. For example, highly effective age assurance is recommended for services likely accessed by children that do not already prohibit and remove harmful content such as pornography and suicide promotion. Providers of services likely to be accessed by UK children were required to complete their assessment, which Ofcom may request, by 24 July.
On 8 July, Ofcom’s CEO wrote to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology noting Ofcom’s responsibility for regulating a wide range of highly diverse services, including those run by businesses, but also charities, community and voluntary groups, individuals, and many services that have not been regulated before.
The letter notes that the Act’s aim is not to penalise small, low-risk services trying to comply in good faith. Ofcom – and the Government – recognise that many small services are dynamic small businesses supporting innovation and offer significant value to their communities. Ofcom will take a sensible approach to enforcement with smaller services that present low risk to UK users, only taking action where it is proportionate and appropriate, and will focus on cases where the risk and impact of harm is highest.
Ofcom has developed an extensive programme of work designed to support a smoother journey to compliance, particularly for smaller firms. This has been underpinned by interviews, workshops and research with a diverse range of online services to ensure the tools meet the needs of different types of services. Ofcom’s letter notes its ‘guide for services’ guidance and tools hub, and its participation in events run by other organisations and networks including those for people running small services, as well as its commitment to review and improve materials and tools to help support services to create a safer life online.
The Government will continue to work with Ofcom towards the full implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023, including monitoring proportionate implementation.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Government gave a response, don't know if it's been posted yet. They didn't even answer the question they just made some bullshit response about making sure the law was enforced 'lawfully and ethically' dodging the whole question about repelling it entirely. A 'No, fuck you. We can do what we want' response would have been less offensive.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Government gave a response, don't know if it's been posted yet. They didn't even answer the question they just made some bullshit response about making sure the law was enforced 'lawfully and ethically' dodging the whole question about repelling it entirely. A 'No, fuck you. We can do what we want' response would have been less offensive.

tl;dr they're fully committed to it and have taken total ownership of the entire thing, proving that they never objected to it on moral or ideological grounds, but only because the tories were in government when it passed.

 

[BongoMongo]

If it was about safety of children then they'd stop letting rapists, whose faith compels them to use rape as a weapon of war,into the country.

 

[A-Logato]

Welp that didn't take long

UK plans to ban VPN's after skyrocketing use seen

Yup, after the commies of the UK government has made the Internet safe for the kiddies they are now upset because people are using VPN's to bypass OfComm's new rules set and if it's one thing Starmer hates it's when the plebs don't do as they're told.

The Britbong elites are already writing up a bill that would outlaw VPN's for "private" use. So that just means the plebs can't have one but of course they the elites are free to keep using them for the their child porn hunting and other unsavoury habits.

What a great time in British History! Free at last from the tyranny of freedom of thought, freedom of expression and freedom of choice. What a time to be alive!!

Not at all shocked that VPN's were the second thing they turned their ire on once the act went into effect. We need to stop pretending that these people are stupid and don't understand what's really in the online safety bill. This is a very concerted and targeted attack on online freedoms for the British and is very likely due to one too many anime profile pictures saying things they don't like on Twitter (which I presume will be their next target).

You will be doxxed, you will be monitored and you will be put in prison if you say something we don't like.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

tl;dr they're fully committed to it and have taken total ownership of the entire thing, proving that they never objected to it on moral or ideological grounds, but only because the tories were in government when it passed.

British politics is entirely performative and that's why they jeer each other like school boys in the house of commons. Turn up, make some noise for parliament TV and you've done your job. Never read any thing. Never make any changes to anything. Never oppose anything except to show you're on the red side of team purple. Then go home to your rent boy to soothe the empty void of a life Waitrose smoked salmon and bubbly can't fill.

 

[teriyakiburns]

brb running for parliament

 

[BongoMongo]

brb running for parliament

I'd vote for you.

If we're all about protecting the kiddos can we lay off promoting Bonnie Blue? Absolutely sick of hearing about that degenerate slag.

 

[Overly Serious]

Government gave a response, don't know if it's been posted yet. They didn't even answer the question they just made some bullshit response about making sure the law was enforced 'lawfully and ethically' dodging the whole question about repelling it entirely. A 'No, fuck you. We can do what we want' response would have been less offensive.

When the government granted itself new powers of surveillance and data access under the RIPA laws to "combat terrorism" it was less than two weeks before a council used it to trace and arrest someone for dog fouling. They are salivating and the chance to ban VPNs from ordinary people. They have a blueprint for totalitarian control and they are working to it.

This has to be stopped and pushed back completely.

brb running for parliament

You would absolutely have my vote. I also have looked to get into local politics but Reform have it on lock-down and controlled from HQ. Any member steps out of line with the Farage top-down one-way direction, they're out. Other opportunities would be to go via Labour (ha!) or Conservatives! If none of those you have to try and make headway as an independent and that's not easy. I guess pressure groups.

There's The Open Rights Group in Britain who have been around for some time. Started with good intentions, I don't know how suborned they are now.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/

 

[Crunkle]

Searches for VPNs in the UK has more than skyrocketed, way more than I think is being reported.

A few days ago, it was at the same spike we saw during 2020. Keep in mind that the value in 2020 was 25 and the recent articles came out the day after saying that registrations had skyrocketed by 1,000 - 2,000%. We're way past 100 at the moment which means that "skyrocketing" actually means somewhere in the 6,000% - 9,000%. Good job, government, you've pushed an entire population to VPNs.

 

[Made In Wales]

It's like a very bad Dastardly & Muttley sketch:

Keir Dastardly: 'Haha, Muttley Rayner, we've screwed them for good this time!'

Muttley Rayner: *Autistic Grunting*

Keir Dastardly: 'WHAT! Everybody's now downloading VPN's and calling me a wankwaffle on Kiwi Farms?! MUTTLEY!!'

Muttley Rayner: *SNICKERS*

 

[BongoMongo]

It's like a very bad Dastardly & Muttley sketch:

Keir Dastardly: 'Haha, Muttley Rayner, we've screwed them for good this time!'

Muttley Rayner: *Autistic Grunting*

Keir Dastardly: 'WHAT! Everybody's now downloading VPN's and calling me a wankwaffle on Kiwi Farms?! MUTTLEY!!'

Muttley Rayner: *SNICKERS*

Wankwaffle is too kind. Traitor is the least of it. Feet first into the wood chipper for him if the revolution comes.

In other news, a friend of mine has recently managed to get herself an NHS dentist. It's taken emails, sent three times a week for 6 months,to her local integrated health board. She's not wealthy and private care is far beyond her being able to afford it.

She had her first appointment this morning,and we spoke earlier. She said there were four obvious illegal migrants there with their translators/tard wranglers in the waiting room.

There are NHS dentists out there. They're just, as per Government orders, prioritizing criminals who have entered the country illegally and under patently false pretences.

Edited to say: NHS dentistry in England and Wales is designed to fail. The cost banding system does not work. I would be more in favour of a system like the Scottish NHS dentistry model where you pay for specific things but at a subsidized cost. Yes,it's more expensive to patients but it's far less so than private care.

The fact NHS dentistry in Scotland works is proven in the numbers. 95% of Scots are registered with an NHS dentist.

When I left Scotland,nigh on 10 years back, I stayed registered with my dentist, an NHS one in Glasgow, for a couple of years after. He was excellent. A really, really good dentist and fantastic with nervous patients. Very upfront about treatment, risks, why it was needed. An excellent communicator and all round good egg. He restored my trust in dentists and helped me overcome a lot of trauma from terrible dentists in childhood.

Dentistry is one of the things the NHS in Scotland gets very, very right and we need to overhaul the entire system. Start by scrapping VAT on dental costs. Regulate private dental care and set price caps.

Not that they will,although the health benefits clear. Poor dental hygiene causes cardiac and inflammation linked disease like diabetes, vascular dementia and rheumatoid arthritis. The cost of these to the NHS are massive.

Wes Streeting can get in the woodchipper and all imo. Useless bufty boy that he is.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

There are NHS dentists out there. They're just, as per Government orders, prioritizing criminals who have entered the country illegally and under patently false pretences.

Everything is like this. Everything is gummed up by illegals being dumped here and being told their human rights must be protected. They have a right to health care so no one else does because we don't have a European court threatening them if we don't.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

In my area, it's £300 for a fucking filling. My in-laws are amazing and helped financially. I explained the dentistry scenario, as I am eligible for an NHS dentist. I have to go over 50 miles. My father-in-law never swears and just said "that's fucking mad". My mother-in-law was horrified, bear in mind, during Covid, I extracted a tooth myself due to pain. They offered to fly me out to the states and get all my dentistry done, as it's cheaper.

I fucking hate to my core when Starmer says how we are a world-class country. Your citizens suffer AS FUCKING ABDUL LIVES THE LIFE OF FUCKING RILEY!

 

[Made In Wales]

Wankwaffle is too kind. Traitor is the least of it. Feet first into the wood chipper for him if the revolution comes.

In other news, a friend of mine has recently managed to get herself an NHS dentist. It's taken emails, sent three times a week for 6 months,to her local integrated health board. She's not wealthy and private care is far beyond her being able to afford it.

She had her first appointment this morning,and we spoke earlier. She said there were four obvious illegal migrants there with their translators/tard wranglers in the waiting room.

There are NHS dentists out there. They're just, as per Government orders, prioritizing criminals who have entered the country illegally and under patently false pretences.

Disgraceful but not surprising.

With regards to what a lot of people have been saying about not revealing too much about yourself, the following story might be of interest and hopefully concern:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/police-issue-major-update-after-32153376

https://archive.ph/wip/ixNRF

Now, I am never going to disclose where I live, but having been past the area this morning on business, I overheard from a few locals that the person whose house went up like it was Bonfire Night is a Reform UK voter and also in the past was a member of UKIP and voted for Brexit.

Apparently there'd been violent threats made from a few locals who had also smashed in the house windows and urinated through the letter box on previous occasions. Four of these locals have now been arrested and if guilty face over ten years imprisonment.

I am vehemently opposed to any sort of violence like this - I know of people who voted Remain and whom wholly oppose Reform UK but I would never ever think of harming them in any way.

What is it with the mentality that 'if people vote for what I believe to be evil, I must kill them'.

 

[BongoMongo]

In my area, it's £300 for a fucking filling. My in-laws are amazing and helped financially. I explained the dentistry scenario, as I am eligible for an NHS dentist. I have to go over 50 miles. My father-in-law never swears and just said "that's fucking mad". My mother-in-law was horrified, bear in mind, during Covid, I extracted a tooth myself due to pain. They offered to fly me out to the states and get all my dentistry done, as it's cheaper.

I fucking hate to my core when Starmer says how we are a world-class country. Your citizens suffer AS FUCKING ABDUL LIVES THE LIFE OF FUCKING RILEY!

Funnily I got talking to a paki taxi driver about dentistry other week- he said the standard and cost of care he gets there is so good he doesn't use the NHS at all.

I'm finally back in a good place with my teeth and I am lucky enough to have a good dentist. The primary motivation for me in taking out income protection insurance was being able to afford the dentist if I was ever out of work again.

It's an absolute state and the government doesn't care. It's a wreck and has been from the outset because the Labour government when the NHS was set up refused to slap dentists (and GPs and opticians) into line. And successive governments have refused to tackle the issue.

All by design though. If you die at 60 because of heart disease then they don't have to pay your pension.

 

[Overly Serious]

Disgraceful but not surprising.

With regards to what a lot of people have been saying about not revealing too much about yourself, the following story might be of interest and hopefully concern:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/police-issue-major-update-after-32153376

https://archive.ph/wip/ixNRF

Now, I am never going to disclose where I live, but having been past the area this morning on business, I overheard from a few locals that the person whose house went up like it was Bonfire Night is a Reform UK voter and also in the past was a member of UKIP and voted for Brexit.

Apparently there'd been violent threats made from a few locals who had also smashed in the house windows and urinated through the letter box on previous occasions. Four of these locals have now been arrested and if guilty face over ten years imprisonment.

I am vehemently opposed to any sort of violence like this - I know of people who voted Remain and whom wholly oppose Reform UK but I would never ever think of harming them in any way.

What is it with the mentality that 'if people vote for what I believe to be evil, I must kill them'.

Who is it suggested as perpetrating the arson by the locals if they said. I mean I presume the implication in you posting this is that the house was targeted because of his politics? We talking Reddit army? Antifa types?


And on the topic of VPNs, I will say this represents my attitude to any such attempts to enforce it: