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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.

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.

 

[Made In Wales]

'Joy' as people unite for mural in wake of riots​

The Pravda-esque regime propaganda is going into overdrive on the one year anniversary of the "fAr RiGhT RiOtS"

"Claire Thomas, a hub leader, said it had been "such a joy" to see people from various communities and ethnic backgrounds coming together to create the artwork"

Nice fantasy Claire, it's blatantly obvious that you and a few of your fellow rainbow lanyard civil service bluehaired DEI goblins created this monstrosity. I like how you shoehorned in the mandatory tranny stripes, maybe you should ask the Paki rape monkeys you love so much what they think of trannies.

Honestly, how do they expect us to feel about this "artwork"? "Oh yeah, I remember that time when a savage schizo negroid immigrant butchered those innocent little girls and I felt a bit sad and some evil far right nazi racists got angry about it and did a riot, but then I saw this tranny flag rainbow smiley face thing and I was reminded that diversity is our strength and now I'm happy again"

It looks like the sort of thing an autistic toddler would create. Minus infinity out of ten.

@Chunky Salsa That's a current possibility, but the IMF would tell Reeves to drop her red lines and Reeves is too thick, stubborn and pompous to listen - she thinks that she is Queen of the Universe.

The IMF and World Bank want Reeves gone, as they know she is too much of an idiot and a liability, and they want Streeting in either as PM or Chancellor.

I have little time for Rayner, but if she does bring down Reeves and Starmer then I'll certainly respect her for doing so.

I will give Labour no more than six weeks from Monday coming to completely fall apart.

 

[BongoMongo]

I've got the week off so have joined the realms of The Day Walkers for the week.

Currently sat in a Norf FC pub (the sort of place that is rough but there's no swearing allowed on account of the ladies,and you don't go there to sell shoplifted goods; that's for the even rougher pub along the road). What people are saying about immigrants and the government would land them in jail were it a tweet.

Hope lies with the proles.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

This I can't actually agree with, as a neighbour of mine is 80 and has had to fork out over £32k to have both shoulders replaced. She now faces having to find another £32k to have her knees done and the NHS has basically told her to fuck off.

She's contributed all her life, never missed a payment nor claimed from the state - no criminal record (including Mantovani's 'Greatest Hits') therefore why now should she be punished by the country she loved?

Here's the kicker though, if she can afford to pay £32k to get both shoulders replaced private, she could afford to pay for a subsidised service in the NHS. In fact with competition between a semi-private NHS and going fully private along with significantly less people using the NHS she might even have managed to get both operations done cheaper. Plus it's not a life or death medical emergency, it's a quality of life operation.

If the entire UK is having to make serious cutbacks I don't expect retired people to be exempt, especially when the pensions crisis is squeezing everyone BUT pensioners. Especially if they retired aged 59 back in 1995 and have now been retired for practically half their working life.

It sounds incredibly harsh but the public purse spending hundreds of thousands to ensure that Doreen aged 82 with Alzheimers and dementia stays alive for another 8 years is ridiculous. She has zero quality of life, she requires 24/7 care to literally not die as she'd be able to choke to death on a ginger snap, and any doctor time spent on her is not spent on anyone else.

And yes, when I say everyone should pay I include boatniggers. The NHS is a major draw FOR boatniggers with complicated medical issues as they can just stand outside a hospital until they collapse and wake up with their appendix removed.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I will give Labour no more than six weeks from Monday coming to completely fall apart.

I have already promised to make a Warwick Davis appreciation thread if we get another election before 2029.

 

[Made In Wales]

Here's the kicker though, if she can afford to pay £32k to get both shoulders replaced private, she could afford to pay for a subsidised service in the NHS. In fact with competition between a semi-private NHS and going fully private along with significantly less people using the NHS she might even have managed to get both operations done cheaper. Plus it's not a life or death medical emergency, it's a quality of life operation.

If the entire UK is having to make serious cutbacks I don't expect retired people to be exempt, especially when the pensions crisis is squeezing everyone BUT pensioners. Especially if they retired aged 59 back in 1995 and have now been retired for practically half their working life.

It sounds incredibly harsh but the public purse spending hundreds of thousands to ensure that Doreen aged 82 with Alzheimers and dementia stays alive for another 8 years is ridiculous. She has zero quality of life, she requires 24/7 care to literally not die as she'd be able to choke to death on a ginger snap, and any doctor time spent on her is not spent on anyone else.

And yes, when I say everyone should pay I include boatniggers. The NHS is a major draw FOR boatniggers with complicated medical issues as they can just stand outside a hospital until they collapse and wake up with their appendix removed.

She may be able to afford to by cashing in bonds or savings, but what you are suggesting is that due to the fuck ups of the Government everybody like her should pay for that.

No, the Government fucked up, the people did not.

Besides, the NHS has already smugly insinuated that they're not interested in helping her out.

'Oh you want an operation? Fuck off with that, we're only operating on migrants, you can get stuffed!'

Easier ways to control financial spending:

* Axe debts
* Refuse to send a penny more abroad
* Reduce tax, live within our means
* Cancel HS2 and redistribute funds elsewhere
* Instant 70% cut on MP's salaries
* No benefits for any new claimants for the next five years - sorry, the migrants made us do it

I'm firmly in the camp of looking after our elderly - the generation who worked hard to put this country back on its feet deserve more respect then just 'you're old now, just sod off and die.'

I just hope that you don't have to use your savings and the kids inheritance when you are elderly.

With Alzheimers, maybe I'd be tempted to agree - but bumping people off because they are no longer of use is something which belongs in the annals of history and should never be modern practice.

It may be wrong to have empathy and compassion, but I am never one to follow fashion.

 

[Crunkle]

I have already promised to make a Warwick Davis appreciation thread if we get another election before 2029.

I knew KiwiFarms had a lot of horrible shit on it but you don't have to go that far. My goodness.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

Police records leaked to the FSU show that the British PoPo are now arresting around 30 people per day for wrongthink...er sorry for breaking the new anti-hate speech and disruptive communications laws. This somehow includes people speaking at pubs as you can apparently make complaints about discussions you overhear.

30 people every single day for the last year.

Yup, no censorship here folks! Britain is not becoming an Orwellian nightmare at all. Please ensure you make all your future communications follow the approved laws citizen or you may be reported by a nosy neighbour and sent to the re-education camps so that you may learn to properly appreciate and respect your new mudslime overlords.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-002239_EN.html

 

[Made In Wales]

I knew KiwiFarms had a lot of horrible shit on it but you don't have to go that far. My goodness.

I appreciate Warwick - once met him at a charity concert in the VIP lounge in the mid 2000s and he couldn't have been any more of a gentleman.

Hated it when Sally Lindsay replaced him on Tenable, let's just say I am NOT a fan.

What will be will be, I remain quietly confident but respect the beliefs of others regarding GE.

@Sweeter and Savoury Keir Starmer is a fucking cunt who should have been swallowed by his Mum.

Also...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YdFdScJz30&ab_channel=InfoWarriors

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Honestly, how do they expect us to feel about this "artwork"?

'100 people' helped to create that? Did they raid the nearest sen class or something? I'm no artist but fucking hell can we just stick to a bench and maybe a carved stone plaque? They've managed to make the atrocious george floyd wall look like a masterpiece.

Yup, no censorship here folks! Britain is not becoming an Orwellian nightmare at all. Please ensure you make all your future communications follow the approved laws citizen or you may be reported by a nosy neighbour and sent to the re-education camps so that you may learn to properly appreciate and respect your new mudslime overlords.

I wonder how that's going to turn out for them. I mean historically arresting people for normal opinions tends to just make them more resolute in them. Even in nonhistory just look at rowling, years of attempted censorship and she's just as firm in her stances. I mean what the fuck are they going to do? Prisons are already rammed full. Apparently fucking 4/5 people hate immigration, are you going to arrest like 50 million people or some shit? There's not space for 50 thousand let alone million.

 

[Corette]

I will give Labour no more than six weeks from Monday coming to completely fall apart.

And after that you're going to give them another deadline to completely fall apart?

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

. Apparently fucking 4/5 people hate immigration, are you going to arrest like 50 million people or some shit? There's not space for 50 thousand let alone million.

oh you poor fool

Yes they will try. They already let out actual rapists and murderers to make space for the white dudes who complained too loudly about immigration during last summers "riots" remember?

If you read the papers the cUK government is indeed building more prisons, they're getting ready for prefab prisons that can be set up with a few days in order to deal with any "social unrest" as they call it. They are honestly expecting things to pop off at any moment, hell we saw the video of the UK special squads training using British nationals as the target of the riot police.

The Left will do what it takes to stay in power. Arrest everyone they can lay on hands, give 16 years the vote. Make new laws and new voting districts. At the end of the day the only thing they care about is staying in power to milk the system for whatever they can for as long as the can. The future is someone else s problem after they'll all be rich by then and able to flee to the US when the Troubles MK2 comes a'calling.

The Troubles are coming, you know and they know it and they know that you know they know it.

 

[BongoMongo]

oh you poor fool

Yes they will try. They already let out actual rapists and murderers to make space for the white dudes who complained too loudly about immigration during last summers "riots" remember?

If you read the papers the cUK government is indeed building more prisons, they're getting ready for prefab prisons that can be set up with a few days in order to deal with any "social unrest" as they call it. They are honestly expecting things to pop off at any moment, hell we saw the video of the UK special squads training using British nationals as the target of the riot police.

The Left will do what it takes to stay in power. Arrest everyone they can lay on hands, give 16 years the vote. Make new laws and new voting districts. At the end of the day the only thing they care about is staying in power to milk the system for whatever they can for as long as the can. The future is someone else s problem after they'll all be rich by then and able to flee to the US when the Troubles MK2 comes a'calling.

The Troubles are coming, you know and they know it and they know that you know they know it.

My best advice is to have A Plan. I have two, one for if shit hits fan when I am at work, supported by my employer,and other for if I am at home. Which are the two places I am most likely to be at any time.

Trust no fucker except those in your immediate household and hope and pray for the best.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Yes they will try. They already let out actual rapists and murderers to make space for the white dudes who complained too loudly about immigration during last summers "riots" remember?

Last year they tried to throw all the people who attended the protests in jail. They just about managed to get the violent ones and a few extra. They came nowhere close to getting everyone who attended those protests. Let alone the other 50 fucking million people that would now be classed as having illegal racist anti migrant sentiment. Yes. They will try. They will try to make an example out of a few individuals.

They will fail though. The government is inept. The prisons are full. The police are outnumbered and worthless. And the entire country is pissed off. They quite simply will not arrest everyone who rightfully despises the government and their current actions.

One of the main parts of the troubles is that they could not arrest everyone. All the kids throwing rocks and women on their bins and people sheltering the provos and just everyone who were generally civilly disobedient were too great in number to arrest. They simply will not be able to arrest everyone. They might be retarded and inept, they are not retarded enough to actually try and arrest everyone who would be considered a racist by their standards. If they do then there's your tipping point, once you tell the general public that every single one of them are criminals then they stop caring about being actual criminals.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Easier ways to control financial spending:

* Axe debts
* Refuse to send a penny more abroad
* Reduce tax, live within our means
* Cancel HS2 and redistribute funds elsewhere
* Instant 70% cut on MP's salaries
* No benefits for any new claimants for the next five years - sorry, the migrants made us do it

Listen, I know you mean well but none of that is going to happen. Maybe the second if Reform actually do believe in following the Trump handbook of cancelling foreign aid, but there'll always be some exceptions (eg. Israel). We're heading headlong into an IMF bailout so the chances of REDUCING taxes are laughable, I see a 10% rise minimum if the worst happens under democracy. Also the removal of the Personal Tax Allowance and ISAs because the government wants us to own nothing and live in a pod.

It's also funny to see how you're drastically against free NHS cover for the elderly but believe that a 16 year old thrown out onto the streets is eligible for nothing for 5 years. Both will result in deaths but a young person is much more likely to become a taxpayer, and them dying worsens the workers:pensioners ratio. The pensions crisis and the NHS are the two biggest drains on the UK budget and it's interesting how your financial spending plans don't include any modifications for them.

Honestly, half the reason why I'm being so especially harsh on the elderly is that I feel like people are wanting drastic change but seem to believe that that drastic change will also allow for British indulgence. People are baying for blood and riots but also expecting to keep a functional NHS, government pensions, a bloated civil service etc. I feel like we're on the cusp of something major and it'll result in either the cut-throat IMF bailout which cuts away most of the remaining perks, or something else which will similarly result in all existing organisations scrapped and built again. When the Berlin wall was built the East Germans didn't just keep Nazi government workers in their posts, and when the Berlin Wall fell, the Germans didn't just merge the East German Stasi into their unified civil service equivalent.

We all know there's something that feels bigger than anything that has happened before, but just like Weimar Germany or Bolshevik Russia it's entirely unpredictable until it happens.

 

[BongoMongo]

Last year they tried to throw all the people who attended the protests in jail. They just about managed to get the violent ones and a few extra. They came nowhere close to getting everyone who attended those protests. Let alone the other 50 fucking million people that would now be classed as having illegal racist anti migrant sentiment. Yes. They will try. They will try to make an example out of a few individuals.

They will fail though. The government is inept. The prisons are full. The police are outnumbered and worthless. And the entire country is pissed off. They quite simply will not arrest everyone who rightfully despises the government and their current actions.

One of the main parts of the troubles is that they could not arrest everyone. All the kids throwing rocks and women on their bins and people sheltering the provos and just everyone who were generally civilly disobedient were too great in number to arrest. They simply will not be able to arrest everyone. They might be retarded and inept, they are not retarded enough to actually try and arrest everyone who would be considered a racist by their standards. If they do then there's your tipping point, once you tell the general public that every single one of them are criminals then they stop caring about being actual criminals.

I sincerely and with all my heart hope and pray you are right.

 

[Made In Wales]

And after that you're going to give them another deadline to completely fall apart?

Based on what many are saying (no longer just lone 'Far Righters') but actual experts and ex-Labour people, then I would say it's certain that they are now at or very near to the end.

There's a difference between wanting something to happen and the thing actually happening, however you just have to look at the projections for Labour vs Reform UK as well as realising that we are now at breaking point.

The interesting thing is that every media outlet now agrees that Labour are not doing enough for the people who elected them - it's not just GB News flaming them but Channel 4, BBC, Left-wing Journos like Owen Jones and we also have a new party in 'Your Party'.

'But what if you're wrong?'

'But what if I am proven right?'

Governments usually collapse when they cannot function - that point is close to fruition.

Latest polling has Labour down yet again with Reform UK way ahead of them = for a ruling Government being so far behind a minority party for so long is a sign that the goodwill and trust has long since gone.

Take a look at what @Tom Nook's Gloryhole has said above about a bailout - this is only going to amplify the cries for change on both sides of Left and Right as we've now reached the stage where our only options are the slow death of this country or a chance to dance with eternal glory (yes, that was a 'Transatlantic' reference).

@Tom Nook's Gloryhole I know you mean well too, and there is no reason why either end of the age spectrum needs to suffer. We need a total rethink of how we fund this country and that starts with putting our own first - we can't save the rest of the world, let those countries save themselves.

I doubt the IMF will bail us out and I think Starmer knows that Reeves is too dumb to negotiate on our behalf. Therefore the only distract he can then pull is to toddle off to Buckingham Palace for tea and biscuits with His Majesty and then hope that Nigel or Ed can clean up the mess.

How would I solve the Pension's crisis - Quad lock for five years, axe wasteful spending (incl. HS2, woke bollocks, Green New Deal, sell off BBC properties, sell off the Government Crypto as well if it helps, any payments abroad or to the EU) and look to move to a better financial model other than the Keynesian one we have at present.

How would I save the NHS - I wouldn't. I'd tell them straight 'if you don't do the jobs you've been paid to do then I'm willing to carve you up and Spire etc. can take over.' I've spoken with Nurses who have quite frankly had enough of their jobs - if it's not insufferable Union types it's Admin people who are ruining hospitals, dragging moral down to the fifth circle of hell and deliberately screwing people's lives up thanks to their unwillingness to help and co-operate.

National Insurance payments can then pay for healthcare and treatment - it's really not that difficult.

This article shows a better way of dealing with the black hole facing us:

https://www.gbnews.com/money/tax-rachel-reeves-hmrc-gdp

https://archive.ph/wwbK1

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I'm going to give myself another month rainbow ban if you all keep this up.

We've just had a demonstration of exactly what will happen. When the precious minorities violently assault armed police and their supporters riot and directly attack the police station in the region the media, politicians and judiciary will make excuses for them while explaining that the plod had it coming. Given overwhelming footage showing what happened and another minority victim they assaulted before this reluctantly a jury will find them guilty of some of those crimes. What those same forces will do when the general public are foolish to try to do anything to disrupt the status quo will be worse. Two-tier justice is the law of the land and when people are fired, fined and put away the usual suspects will be told where their vulnerable friends and relatives live.

In a fortnight's time we are going to see this in even more stark contrast when the trial for a Labour councillor who screamed for throats to be slit while applauded by one of the largest charities in the country is going to get zero jail time and remain a Labour councillor with his current employer keeping him on and hundreds of pieces written about how awful it is his harmless words saw such an overreaction.

We are a long way off when this will change in any serious way.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'd solve the UK's financial issues by the ritual of decimato enacted on all government employees, QUANGO employees and charity workers. How would that help, you ask? I'll tell you after we're done, don't want to spoil the surprise.
The surprise: I just want them all to SUFFER!! and DIE!!

 

[the rat]

The surprise: I just want them all to SUFFER!! and DIE!!

We could fix so many things if this happened.

 

[Made In Wales]

@Chunky Salsa That's brilliant, Julia Middleton of Common Purpose 'fame' should be the first into the woodchipper.

@Morethanabitfoolish Well remembered! Ricky Jones' trial will certainly be interesting, if the media doesn't hush it up, and if he gets a suspended sentence then it might just get a bit fiery...

I doubt that the anger and protests will stop, and we only need something big for it to go off.