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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.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

The worst thing about government censorship is that it's probably going to drive innocent children to using Linux. At that point you might as well let them be raped instead of spending hours trying to fix their display driver via the terminal.

Hey come on don't say that. They'll be white so you can't call them innocent.

I’ll keep saying this as a Wildcard, the Burgers that own firearms tend to hate the globalist Governments. I wouldn’t doubt it if there were already smuggled American firearms with the British.

No don't be silly. Nationalists would never smuggle weapons from America into the country to fight an invading force. That is simply unprecedented made up fan fiction that would never happen in real life. I mean how would that even happen, our shores are secure and very well monitored and a ship full of rifles could never be simply landed on the shores, especially not in Kerry. That would never happen and if it did it's probably all propaganda anyway.

fr though most of the illegal guns in the country aren't american. They normally come from soviet places, if you look at most of the guns seized from organised crime it's normally soviet shit, take it from where it's still easy to find and smuggle it through europe is much easier than crossing the fucking atlantic most of the time. Just look at seziure photos, normally it's shit like makarovs and lugers, soviet or world war era. Large number of those world war guns got stashed away and forgotten because people were able to fucking predict the future apparently worried about fascism not just disappearing overnight and potentially needing them again. If a civil war does break out 1916 style then it won't be with american guns. Maybe I'll be proven wrong but I'd be willing to bet that it doesn't start with american imports at least.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Home Office launches huge new drive in effort to 'smash the gangs' with £100m funding boost:

https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-home-office-english-channel

How the Hell.do the government believe that Law Enforcement in countries like Turkey, Iran and African countries will work jointly with NCA in tracing the people smugglers?

Not unless the £100m is split up into 1000's of brown paper envelopes.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

As I said prior, they can't do it; it would require BILLIONS. All the millions are nothing but gifts.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

How the Hell.do the government believe that Law Enforcement in countries like Turkey, Iran and African countries will work jointly with NCA in tracing the people smugglers?

It's England, do you really think that actually stopping crime is the point? They're not trying to stop crime they just want the optics of it. They want to be able to point to something and say they're really trying and helping all while intentionally not doing the fucking logical thing. The country that bans every type of knife known to man despite being told it will not do anything and is met with continually rising knife crime rates continues to go down that same path? Colour me surprised. They have never cared about stopping crime, just looking like they are.

At this rate believing anything the government says is delusional. There's no way you can look at the government's actions and assume they are actually even trying to try. The only part of the government that actually tries are the gaslighting and propagandist departments.

 

[Marvin]

Lol the commies are way more explicit here in Bongland. It makes me laugh.

Don't forget to batten down the wild haggis. Don't want them getting blown away. (When I lived Norf Of The Wall I had my nephew's believing for a solid 2 years that they were real wild animals, and that the Sherrifs Court is so called cos at start of session they bring out the Ceremonial Lassoo. Good times).

Bless ‘em. I think most parents do the same, hear the call of the wild ones when you’re out on the hill.

Sounds like a snipe hunt.

 

[Made In Wales]

Just remember when the government says they're going to do x, use the "present your balls" argument. The government has run out its credit line, and whilst there is the commie piece saying "the UK can never go bankrupt." I assure you, it can.

None of this shit can be implemented for a long time. I will say a huge thank you to the Indian dentist who is seeing me on an emergency. My other half knows I am pretty racist, but most Indian dentists I have been to have been fantastic.

Which is why I and others say 'well, if we can't pay, then axe the debts'

A one-off global cancellation of debt is going to be like popping a pimple on an elephant's arse - nobody will feel a thing and everybody benefits.

Besides, Gordon Brown cancelled Africa's debt back in the 2000s. There's a precedent.

I didn't agree with Nigel re: the Trans prisoners (though I get the point that until we get Tranny only jails, the issue of whether a person is 'Arthur' or 'Martha' is going to be continuous pain in the arse) but he's made up for it with this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c860py73pglo

https://archive.ph/wip/L7Jce

Let's see Labour, Tories etc. say 'this is wrong', because the whole of the country is raging about this - neighbours of mine are beyond angry that this could happen and one day soon a Muslim could knock on their door and shoot them with a gun, and then be defended by Wokeo Haram.

The red-pilling is only going to intensify.

 

[East_Clintwood]

This reminded me of Charles Veitch, the guy who wonders around Manchester and Piccadilly Gardens filming crackheads and wogs. Frequently gets himself assaulted, but he's a proper political sperg if anyone is familiar. You could start a UK Sektur with the amount of shit in that guy's history.

Probably because most, if not all, of the footage being voiced over is actually Charlie's.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Don't forget to batten down the wild haggis. Don't want them getting blown away. (When I lived Norf Of The Wall I had my nephew's believing for a solid 2 years that they were real wild animals, and that the Sherrifs Court is so called cos at start of session they bring out the Ceremonial Lassoo. Good times).

They put them on pizza if you know the right places. Don't put it on the menu though. Selfish cunts don't want to share with any one south of the border. I've heard they'll even switch your mars bar for a fucking aldi home brand one if they think you're English

 

[mold]

I’ll keep saying this as a Wildcard, the Burgers that own firearms tend to hate the globalist Governments. I wouldn’t doubt it if there were already smuggled American firearms with the British.

lol how

look at a map, if you have smuggled firearms they come over the channel not over the atlantic

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Lol the commies are way more explicit here in Bongland. It makes me laugh.

My pickle in Chris that poster is about as old as you. Looks like it was put up when the soviet union actually still existed.

I didn't agree with Nigel re: the Trans prisoners

I mean ideally there would simply be no trans prisoners, it just should not be a thing at all in wider society not just prisons. We do have 'trans only prisons' already though, it's called broadmoor.

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

Why did this brain-dead faggot come back? I can only assume by now he is addicted to the attention like some BPD whore, either that or he is on the Jezbollah payroll to put people off the "far right".

That's exactly what he is for. The right start making effective protests and he pops out the woodwork to punch somebody in a suspiciously staged looking video to remind everybody we wuz thugs.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.

You love to see it.

Some UK users on the YouTube subreddit are reporting that their VPNs are being detected and blocked by the platform

Has anyone encountered this to confirm? I've already got a plan B if using TOR and a VPN become not possible at the very least.

Just checked, my vpn (mullvad) is blocked unless I log in. I don't think this is particularly new, though; reddit has always gone out of its way to block VPNs and TOR. Interferes with their advertising metrics.

I've heard they'll even switch your mars bar for a fucking aldi home brand one if they think you're English

Joke's on them, I prefer the Titan.

 

[Gregis]

BREAKING: People cannot adjust the NVIDIA graphics cards settings on their Gaming PCs anymore because they aren't 18 thanks to the Online Safety Act.
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16 year olds: Can't look at porn, can't drink, can't drive, can't buy certain video games, can't adjust graphics on those video games, can't buy things to chop their vegetables with, can't smoke, can't vape, can't be out of school, but CAN vote. This is definitely a sensible country we live in.

This is a travesty, but I place the blame 100% on NVIDIA and 0% on UK government. Fuck Steam again while I'm thinking about shitty browser interfaces for applications that should work offline.

Anyway, retarded American here, how y'all doin? Could I trouble you island mexicans to spoonfeed me some information I should be able to figure out myself? I was thinking about the consequences of one of you guys getting doxed on here, and I was wondering whether just accessing the site would be enough for some kind of charge even if you never actually posted TPD. Obviously you have to be using a VPN or TOR, and as far as I know there's talk of criminalizing that but it hasn't happened yet; but the site is not in compliance with UK law and is supposed to be blocking UK residents. Is the onus entirely on the site operator? Could you be in trouble for having posted innocuous things here after the IP block?

 

[the rat]

Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.

1970s Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Anyway, retarded American here, how y'all doin? Could I trouble you island mexicans to spoonfeed me some information I should be able to figure out myself? I was thinking about the consequences of one of you guys getting doxed on here, and I was wondering whether just accessing the site would be enough for some kind of charge even if you never actually posted TPD. Obviously you have to be using a VPN or TOR, and as far as I know there's talk of criminalizing that but it hasn't happened yet; but the site is not in compliance with UK law and is supposed to be blocking UK residents. Is the onus entirely on the site operator? Could you be in trouble for having posted innocuous things here after the IP block?

1. Fuck off, we're full
2. Go on a diet fatty.
3. Accessing the site isn't illegal. If any of us got police attention and could tie our account to it we would likely end up in court and possibly 2 years in prison no matter what we posted.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

BREAKING: People cannot adjust the NVIDIA graphics cards settings on their Gaming PCs anymore because they aren't 18 thanks to the Online Safety Act.
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16 year olds: Can't look at porn, can't drink, can't drive, can't buy certain video games, can't adjust graphics on those video games, can't buy things to chop their vegetables with, can't smoke, can't vape, can't be out of school, but CAN vote. This is definitely a sensible country we live in.

It's a very interesting move from the government to restrict 16 year olds from everything but then give them the ability to vote the government out.

 

[BongoMongo]

It's a very interesting move from the government to restrict 16 year olds from everything but then give them the ability to vote the government out.

Makes you wonder if aforementioned 16 year olds will have the intelligence to do so, rather than falling for whatever bs is on social media telling them to vote Labour.

It would be a hilarious and spectacular self-own if this backfires on the Labour party.

A close relative of mine works in education (not as a teacher, but with young people in a secondary school). They've told me more than once how there's a real, serious undercurrent of flat-out hate, towards immigrants and the establishment as a whole among young white people.

They're keenly aware that their life will be an absolute slog and it's not helped at all by the Government flooding the country with Nbugu and his tongue clicking pals.

 

[Made In Wales]

Makes you wonder if aforementioned 16 year olds will have the intelligence to do so, rather than falling for whatever bs is on social media telling them to vote Labour.

It would be a hilarious and spectacular self-own if this backfires on the Labour party.

A close relative of mine works in education (not as a teacher, but with young people in a secondary school). They've told me more than once how there's a real, serious undercurrent of flat-out hate, towards immigrants and the establishment as a whole among young white people.

They're keenly aware that their life will be an absolute slog and it's not helped at all by the Government flooding the country with Nbugu and his tongue clicking pals.

I very much think that this is likely.

Welsh Labour tried it here and now very few Welsh youngsters will consider Labour as their party.

Plaid have a good chunk of the youth vote, but Reform UK are also popular in South and North Wales in the working class communities. The Lib Dems are just about treading water with some of the students (16-21 year olds) but none of the others are making any progress including the Greens (only in Cardiff and Newport are they making any gains).

Labour and Tories are dead here, and what's happened in Wales will now also happen elsewhere.

In Scotland, the SNP are on the back foot for the first time in decades and independence is now more likely for Wales than Scotland (though IMO Wales will opt to stay as part of the Union).

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Trial is going ahead in absence of Tulip's presence, no doubt she'll be found guilty and remain in the UK because harbouring foreign criminals is our norm.

https://archive.ph/Y6vgE

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq is set to face trial later this month over corruption allegations in Bangladesh.
The former minister is accused of illegally receiving land in Bangladesh as part of a wider investigation into the regime of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed as prime minister last year.
The country's Anti-Corruption Commission confirmed her case is due to be heard, along with more than 20 other individuals including Hasina and other family members, on 11 August and if she does not attend it will be held in her absence.
Lawyers for Siddiq have denied the allegations, describing them as "politically motivated".
The Hampstead and Highgate MP resigned as treasury minister in Sir Keir Starmer's government in January, saying continuing in her role would be a "distraction", although she insisted she had done nothing wrong.
The three cases to be heard on 11 August accuse Siddiq of influencing her aunt's administration to secure a plot of land for her mother, brother and sister in Purbachal, Dhaka.
Siddiq has so far failed to appear before the court, despite several summons.
Bangladeshi authorities issued an arrest warrant for her earlier this year.

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https://archive.ph/o/Y6vgE/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm3473wzr0o
In a statement, lawyers for Siddiq said: "For nearly a year now, the Bangladesh authorities have been making false allegations against Tulip Siddiq. Ms Siddiq has not been contacted or received any official communication from the court and does not and has never owned any plot of land in Purbachal.
"This longstanding politically motivated smear campaign has included repeated briefings to the media, a refusal to respond to formal legal correspondence, and a failure to seek any meeting with or question Ms Siddiq during the recent visit by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to the United Kingdom. Such conduct is wholly incompatible with the standards of a fair, lawful, and credible investigation.
"In light of these facts, it is now time for the chief adviser and the ACC to end this baseless and defamatory effort to damage Ms Siddiq's reputation and obstruct her work in public service."
Last month, Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus refused to meet Siddiq to discuss the allegations against her, despite her requests, saying this was a court matter.
The commission is also investigating a separate case against Siddiq and her family over allegations of embezzlement of £3.9bn connected to a Russian-funded nuclear power plant deal with Bangladesh in 2013.
Siddiq has denied any involvement in the deal.
The investigation is based on a series of allegations made by Bobby Hajjaj, a political opponent of Hasina.
Bangladeshi authorities estimate that about $234bn (£174bn) was siphoned off from Bangladesh through corrupt means while Hasina was in power.
Siddiq quit her ministerial post earlier this year following an investigation into the allegations against her by the prime minister's standards adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus.
In his report, Sir Laurie said he had "not identified evidence of improprieties".
But he said it was "regrettable" that Siddiq had not been more alert to the "potential reputational risks" of her ties to her aunt.

A pair of dumb ones from Jess Philips

https://archive.ph/nOP7O

Jess Phillips has joined criticism of Reform UK’s pledge to repeal the Online Safety Act, suggesting such a move would empower “modern-day Jimmy Saviles”.
Ms Phillips, the Home Office minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, appeared to accuse Nigel Farage of being more concerned about “clicks for his monetised social media accounts” than children’s safety online.
She backed her colleague Peter Kyle after his row with the Reform UK leader last week.

The Technology Secretary said Mr Farage was putting himself on the side of “extreme pornographers” and people like Savile by opposing the law.

Under rules that came into effect on 25 July as part of the act, online platforms such as social media sites and search engines must take steps to prevent children from accessing harmful content such as pornography or material that encourages suicide.
Mr Farage has said the legislation threatens freedom of speech and open debate.

Writing in The Times, Ms Phillips said: “Farage said it’s the biggest threat to freedom of speech in our lifetimes.
“My colleague Peter Kyle said he was siding with modern-day Jimmy Saviles preying on children online.”

She said she would like to speak to Mr Farage about “one of those modern-day Saviles, Alexander McCartney”.
McCartney, who posed as a teenage girl to befriend young girls from across the globe on Snapchat and other platforms before blackmailing them, “just needed a computer” to reach his targets, Ms Phillips wrote.

Believed to be one of the world’s most prolific online offenders, McCartney abused at least 70 children online and drove one girl to suicide.
Ms Phillips said the Online Safety Act exists to try to provide a “basic minimum of protection, and make it harder for paedophiles to prey on children at will”.

She said police have told her that paedophile networks use “normal websites where their parents assume they’re safe” to coerce and blackmail young people.

“Perhaps Nigel Farage doesn’t worry about that — there’s no political advantage in it, and no clicks for his monetised social media accounts. But I do.
“I worry about what it means now and what it will mean when boys reared on a diet of ultraviolent online child abuse are adult men having children of their own. I can’t ignore that, neither can Peter Kyle, and, most importantly, nor can millions of parents across the country.
“I defy Nigel Farage to tell me what any of that has to do with free speech.
“I defy him to meet even one parent who has lost a daughter to suicide because she was being blackmailed online and tell them that is just the price of civil liberties. Maybe he’d feel differently after that kind of meeting, or maybe he wouldn’t care.”
Her comments echo those of Mr Kyle, who said last week: “Make no mistake about it, if people like Jimmy Savile were alive today, he’d be perpetrating his crimes online. And Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side.”
Mr Farage demanded an apology from the Technology Secretary, who refused to withdraw the remarks.

https://archive.ph/RtiOJ

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said the UK has got “fat” from the free labour of women for decades.
The minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls said the country has relied on women providing charity, adding it was a “fundamentally sexist” practice that meant the government was less willing to provide the service itself.

She said she “hated” the title of her role and added that safeguarding against gender-based violence should be “business as usual in every single government department”.
The Birmingham Yardley MP also suggested there was an issue in Whitehall where government departments viewed violence against women and girls as solely a Home Office issue.

Phillips said she had to push for the safety of women and girls to be a “mainstream concern”, which she said had not always made her “popular as a government minister”.
Asked what pushback she had received from ministers or civil servants, she said: “People directly say things like, ‘That’s the Home Office’s job’.
“Why is it my job to do healthy relationship education in schools? Why is it my job to provide mental health support for whatever reason it is that you ended up in that [situation]?’
“Do you know what it is? Free labour of women is where it comes from.
“It comes from a fundamentally sexist place in that women didn’t have these services, so a load of women across the country got together and made these services and offered them to other women for free, and they didn’t get paid for their labour.
“So they put down a mattress and made a refuge. They set up counselling services and got people who were trained to be therapists and got their voluntary hours and set it up for free.”
Phillips said people do not recognise how heavily the UK has relied on women providing support that previously did not exist
She added: “Nobody offered diabetes medicine for free. Pharmaceutical companies didn’t go, ‘Wow, this is really important. People will die without this. We’ll just give it away for free.’
“That is what the women in our country did in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and we got fat on that expectation that that service will be provided for free.
“And we also belittled it as an issue that wasn’t absolutely, fundamentally mainstream to the safety and security of our nation.
“Undoing that is really hard and it’s going to take a long time.”

 

[Marvin]

My pickle in Chris that poster is about as old as you. Looks like it was put up when the soviet union actually still existed.

Sure, it looks pretty ancient (still has a QR code tho).

Still, am I wrong in my understanding that commie nonsense is way more explicit and open in the UK?

To be fair, I suppose we do get some of that in the US, but it's more of a west coast thing. They're way more scared of spooking the boomers with the C word on the east coast. (Don't get me wrong, they still have 100% of the same retarded ideas, they just know they need to use euphemisms.)

Lol I saw this one today:


I appreciate the vandalism.