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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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This is a letter of hate. It is for you, my countrymen. I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death. You are its murderers, and there's little left in my own brain but the thoughts of murder for you.

I cannot even address you as 'Dear', for that word alone would sin against my hatred. And this, my hatred for you, and those who tolerate you, is about all I have left and all the petty dignity my death may keep.

No, this is not the highly paid 'anger' or the 'rhetoric' you like to smile at (you've tried to mangle my language, too). You'll not pour pennies into my coffin for this; you are MY object. I am not yours. You are my vessel, you are MY hatred. That is my final identity. True, it will no doubt die with me in a short time and by your unceasing effort.

But perhaps it could be preserved, somewhere, in the dead world that you have prepared for us, perhaps the tiny, unbared spark of my human hatred might kindle, just for the briefest moment in time, the life you lost for us.

I fear death. I dread it daily. I cling wretchedly to life, as I have always done. I fear death, but I cannot hate it as I hate you. It is only you I hate, and those who let you live, function and prosper.

My hatred for you is almost the only constant satisfaction you have left me. My favourite fantasy is four minutes or so non-commercial viewing as you fry in your democratically elected hot seats in Westminster, preferably with your condoning democratic constituents.

You have instructed me in my hatred for 30 years. You have perfected it, and made it the blunt, obsolete instrument it is now. I only hope it will keep me going. I think it will. I think it may sustain me in the last few months.

Till then, damn you, England. You're rotting now, and quite soon you'll disappear. My hate will outrun you yet, if only for a few seconds. I wish it could be eternal.

I write this from another country, with murder in my brain and a knife carried in my heart for every one of you. I am not alone. If WE had just the ultimate decency and courage, we would strike at you - now, before you blaspheme against the world in our name. There is nothing I should not give for your blood on my head.

But all I can offer you is my hatred. You will be untouched by that, for you are untouchable. Untouchable, unteachable, impregnable.

If you were offered the heart of Jesus Christ, your Lord and your Saviour - though not mine, alas - you'd sniff at it like sour offal. For that is the Kind of Men you are.

Believe me,

In sincere and utter hatred,

Your Fellow Countryman,

John Osborne

Valbonne, France

From 'Tribune', 18 August 1961
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BongoMongo said:
All by design though. If you die at 60 because of heart disease then they don't have to pay your pension.
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Always has been, to a degree. When the state pension was created, most recipients would retire at 60 and be dead by 70 at the latest. The NHS fucked over the calculus by helping people live longer. It's why they're raising the pension age and trying to get pensioners to be "productive", which is just another way of saying "work until you die you scum".
 
Mister Fister said:
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The picture is an inversion. It shows men and women in numbers and one lurking man waiting to erupt. The few are the ones on top and the ones getting ready to erupt are the many.

Why put so much effort into controlling what we see and what we say, if that's not the truth of it and what they fear.
 
Overly Serious said:
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:
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It's strongly suggested in that area that Welsh Antifa/Lefty hate mobs were responsible, because they objected to Reform UK banners and posters being placed in the front window of the house in question.

The Police aren't commenting on this, possibly so as not to make matters worse.

Just be safe, peeps, as this is unlikely to be the last such incident if it's 'Politics related'.
 
Crunkle said:
Searches for VPNs in the UK has more than skyrocketed, way more than I think is being reported.
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It's going to be FAR higher than that. I find it funny how people tend to use Google Analytics to show trends but anyone who cares about privacy was typically using DuckDuckGo as a search engine (the default one in TOR). It's also better than Google in plenty of cases now as Google went from being the easiest way to find a website or information to being filled to the brim with sponsored results.

The only thing I'm pissed about is that some private trackers don't accept VPNs, so the day the government decides to block those via ISP then I'm fucked. I've been hoarding movies and TV shows for years now because I feared something big was going to happen, but I had no idea it'd be this.

Here's the insane kicker when it comes to online privacy, by pushing people towards VPNs it allows the niggercattle to use VPNs when they're the lowest common denominator, and as the police typically arrest the lowest common denominator we're going to see loads of paedos and terrors suspects who were being tracked just disappear off the grid.
 
Some Afternoon news before I go for dinner:


Rambo and Batman actor dies aged 60 after fatal collapse at tourist-packed beach:




Supermodel Caprice, 53, fumes she 'no longer feels safe' in London over Jewish heritage amid antisemitism surge




Sharon Osbourne and family 'sickened' as 'disgusting' conspiracy theories surrounding Ozzy Osbourne death emerge:




Benefits fraudster dishonestly claimed £26k in taxpayers' cash in three-year Universal Credit con:




More than 600,000 graduates claim benefits as concerns grow over 'Mickey Mouse' degrees:




Top UK university 'discriminated against non-black students', whistleblowers say:




Justice campaigner warns of ‘very real risk’ to grooming gang victims amid online safety row: 'It's unworkable':




Locals fuming after Labour's 'secret' plan to move migrants into £250k flats killing off 'Zombieland' High Street in Waterlooville, Hampshire:




DWP minister gives update on 'bank spying' shake-up as thousands to see money taken straight from accounts:


 
Funny left infighting: Leeds councillor and candidate for Green Party Deputy Leader Mothin Ali says the reason he is not signing pledges from or attending the hustings of the party's special interest groups (including LGBTQIA+, vegans and feminists) is because he doesn't like the pledge system and believes it is performative, and not because he doesn't like gay people because he's a Muslim. He receives a variety of responses from across the political spectrum.

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Adnan Hussain, independent MP for Blackburn and member of the Independent Alliance, responds, asking if there will be a space on the left for socially conservative Muslims. He receives a variety of responses, all telling him to fuck off, from across the political spectrum.

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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
some private trackers don't accept VPNs, so the day the government decides to block those via ISP then I'm fucked
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AmneziaWG. It's a fork of Wireguard which disguises all VPN traffic as just normal traffic. That's my backup, it's a Russian-driven port of Wireguard to bypass blocks, so you know it's been tried and tested in Russia.
 
Yeah, we've been starting to collect Switch video games too. I like how uniform they look; it pleases me. We do tend to buy our favourite series like The Office and King of the Hill, and oddly, only horror movies. We do have all the Kaiju films, which are hard to get in the UK, and I was surprised how much they were worth.
 
BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
I've gone old school and slowly built up a collection of physical media for this reason. No newspeak censorship of old shows and dirt cheap to buy in charity shops or retro video game stores. Plus it does look good on bookshelves to have a load of DVDs.
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I used to do that but eventually it becomes a complete fucking hassle to store it. If I want to move halfway across the country I could either get a moving van to take 20 boxes of physical media OR just shove my NAS in the car with literally everything I have ever owned on it.

I only keep the bare minimum of physical media, the ones I absolutely adore and can lend to a friend. Physical copies feel good until they don't and then it's such a hassle to downsize.
 
I have a massive collection of books, DVDs and video games and I've been pirating content onto external drives for years so if we do enter "the dark times" then I have plenty to keep me entertained. Though there are a lot of people who haven't done this and if getting access to content online becomes nigh impossible then there's going to be an awful lot of frustrated people.

I'd make jokes about them getting to the point of working with ISP's to try determine who is using a VPN but they might unironically do that.
 
"Our Tommeh!" is a civnat faggot who is for sure in the way of what needs to happen; but he sure as fuck is a funny guy. I can't dislike the man, I really can't. Especially as he was one of the first to raise the issue of paki rape gangs.
 
Made In Wales said:
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:



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'.
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I just looked up where it was and the house is in a random dead end street and with it being 1:30am it seems like 4 people getting drunk and then deciding to drive over and set fire to the house before driving off again rather than driving past and doing some smaller thing that then started a fire.

I do hope political activism and protest isn't going into an arson/bombing phase where everyone with any agenda thinks they are modern day suffragettes. But then it also makes sense if people are getting arrested and facing 2 years for holding a paper sign up.
 
Here's the very key thing about making VPNs illegal which I've mentioned hundreds of times before: You can keep adding laws and making every action you do illegal but it doesn't mean shit if the police aren't funded well enough to do anything about it.

By accessing this site you're committing a crime, by pirating the latest Manic Street Preachers album you're committing a crime (and should be shot for it because they're shit) and there's no fucking way any of you have accepted a tenner from your Gran for driving her to bingo and reported it to HMRC.

What exactly does anyone think will happen if they make VPNs illegal? Presumably after they work out exactly who you are after months of investigating they'll arrest you. You get interviewed by the police and they work out if there's a big enough case to take it to the CPS. Even pleading ignorance to the law can be enough to see it fall apart as half the law is intent. If it is then you're given a court case date for 4 years from now because the courts are overloaded. At any point between now and then the case might be dropped as it's seen as a low priority case and that's that. If you get all the way to court and don't immediately plead guilty then you go to trial. If by some miracle you're found guilty after that then you're probably given a £500 fine, a four month community order (halved and by being low risk you'll see your probation officer once) and told not to do it again.

You think the police would actively give a shit about any of this along the way? If you're running a child prostitution ring then sure, but the average person who is using it to watch porn and download out of print French cinema? To top it off, even if you're found guilty for all that you could easily go to the media when the next major thing happens in your town and say it's insane how the police are dedicating so much time and effort for low stakes crimes as opposed to finding the local rapist.

Even fucking CHINA knows that you can't watch everyone. This isn't 1980s East Germany where by tapping a phone line you've basically got 90% of anyone's information, you'd need to tap everything at once. Even then a guy could easily meet up with a friend in the park and exchange hard drives worth of Portuguese hip hop music and you're unable to get them.

I'm not particularly worried, but everyone should be ensuring that there's at least an extra level of privacy so you're not the softest target around.
 
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