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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.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

They don't even deign to wave or wear the flag (Union or St George) as they carry out this piddly protest. At least you can tell it's organic by the shitty signs. They immediately devalue their message by framing his arrival as being worse than the boat-crossers, somehow, whilst also trying once again to mire it with an ostensibly foreign conflict (Palestine/Israel).

Here's Clarkson's "joined the backlash" btw.
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So the headline is just a lie then?

It's very strange that funny carman ended up becoming something akin to the people's champion, to the point where the media will lie about his actions because they know his word has a fairly significant amount of weight to it.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

What about the Lionesses?

Didn't exist when I was growing up. At most you'd have a wank over the women's tennis.

 

[Midwit]

What about the Lionesses?

I remember the BBC making some shit about it during the woman's football season where they had a butterface that they insisted on filming in super high definition close ups like an over-indulgent ASMR video, and the canteen staff lost the remote so they couldn't just change it over to watching reruns of bullseye on challenge like they usually do.

 

[Hoi Polloi]

Christ.... I didn't think there were that many. One is so close to me it's within walking distance and I live in the middle of nowhere. And the thing is it's not even just one. I live near almost ten of them and that's in only a ten mile radius, my daily commute is further away than that.

I was interested to see what the spread was in the home counties because my perception was that this was largely a norf/midlands thing.

There's fucking four in Reading all in pissing distance of each other, and to my surprise only one in Aldershot. They should dump them all there, the Nepalese would probably react even more strongly than actual Brits have.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

Lol. Lmao even.

Nitter/Xwitter
White chick: "We need to get rid of these laws that impact our sovereignty and make us an attractive target to people looking to leave their home nations"

Pajeeta: "No, that's too mean . I wouldn't want to live in a country that wouldn't let me in"

Wellllllllllll she can always go back to India and reform it so they let in refugees lol.

The audacity of these fucking shitskins.
She's making an excellent argument for why they shouldn't be let in, because they just advocate for millions more.

I feel like this is bordering on "But I did eat breakfast this morning".
If you're talking about the borders of the United Kingdom and your own national future, why the fuck does it matter that you're a non-native of Bomalia or Shitfuckistan?
You don't live there and they're also allowed to enforce their own laws.
If you don't like their laws, don't travel there!

 

[Vriljami]

 

[Clem Fandango]

The real question is what do you call a small loaf of bread roughly the perfect size for a sandwich?

Very clever Mr Elite Police Constable Hatespeech Monitor. Very clever indeed. You know that no one in this thread will be able to resist getting involved in this argument, thus doxing themselves to within about five miles. Clearly they've improved the training at GCHQ.

 

[Le b0wski]

Even the rozzers are starting to question things, just a tiny little bit.

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Can tell the police, home office and whatever other government agencies are all so disjointed that his being caught will likely never match up with his asylum claim to impact it at all.

Why the fuck is there one in the absolute middle of nowhere in wales? Migrant hotel in a village that looks like there's maybe 100 people living there? Same for the fucking west coast of scotland? Even northallerton, that place is pretty fucking tiny yet they get migrants dumped on them too.

Hotel owners who have decided to buy failing asshole nowhere hotels that get a handful of bookings for hikers in the summer but can now be fully booked year around.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Lol. Lmao even.
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Nitter/Xwitter
White chick: "We need to get rid of these laws that impact our sovereignty and make us an attractive target to people looking to leave their home nations"

Pajeeta: "No, that's too mean . I wouldn't want to live in a country that wouldn't let me in"

Wellllllllllll she can always go back to India and reform it so they let in refugees lol.

The audacity of these fucking shitskins.
She's making an excellent argument for why they shouldn't be let in, because they just advocate for millions more.

I feel like this is bordering on "But I did eat breakfast this morning".
If you're talking about the borders of the United Kingdom and your own national future, why the fuck does it matter that you're a non-native of Bomalia or Shitfuckistan?
You don't live there and they're also allowed to enforce their own laws.
If you don't like their laws, don't travel there!

Imagine being Shami Chakrabarti and having a well-known paedo write a song extolling your virtues.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Christ.... I didn't think there were that many. One is so close to me it's within walking distance and I live in the middle of nowhere. And the thing is it's not even just one. I live near almost ten of them and that's in only a ten mile radius, my daily commute is further away than that.

It's bad and this doesn't cover them giving them random houses. Completely unsupervised foreign colonies where they can leave freely and do anything they want.

It's very strange that funny carman ended up becoming something akin to the people's champion, to the point where the media will lie about his actions because they know his word has a fairly significant amount of weight to it.

Clarkson has always been a bit based. He was one of the few Londoners who actually left London and took the country around him in. Not just a weekend barn conversion trip and back.

I was interested to see what the spread was in the home counties because my perception was that this was largely a norf/midlands thing.

There's fucking four in Reading all in pissing distance of each other, and to my surprise only one in Aldershot. They should dump them all there, the Nepalese would probably react even more strongly than actual Brits have.

It shows how bad stuff is when you look at Scotland. Look at some of the places they've dumped them there. And it gets so cold they leave once winter sets in. It's the same cycle.

Summer comes and the boats kick into high gear
Government dumps them in small unsuitable areas with no monitoring
They rape and shit up the place for 3-6 months
Weather starts to get bad and they disappear into one of the major cities where they can blend in with the other brown people and it's a little warmer.
Government now has a whole hotel free to place more in.

Reform should bring in very harsh punishments for hiring illegals. Make it so if you're caught you're paying £100,000 or more per illegal hired. Then go after Ubereats and similar companies. Completely fuck the illegal's jobs so they can't disappear so easily. Then start using ankle tags and if they leave their designated shitting street they end up being deported immediately.

Getting control of this is so easy. But there's no will in government to do it. It would take less than a day to write up functional laws and deploying a border control force with shoot to kill and it would be stopped. There shouldn't even be a debate on this.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

The government responded to the petition asking them to go die in a fire for being such faggot traitors.

This Government was elected on a mandate of change at the July 2024 general election. Our full focus is on fixing the foundations, rebuilding Britain, and restoring public confidence in government.

The Prime Minister can call a general election at a time of their choosing by requesting a dissolution of Parliament from the Sovereign within the five-year life of a Parliament. The Government was elected by the British people on a mandate of change at the July 2024 general election.

This Government is fixing the foundations and delivering change with investment and reform to deliver growth, with more jobs, more money in people’s pockets, to rebuild Britain and get the NHS back on its feet. This will be built on the strong foundations of a stable economy, national security and secure borders as we put politics back in the service of working people.

On entering office, a £22 billion black hole was identified in the nation’s finances. We inherited unprecedented challenges, with crumbling public services and crippled public finances, but will deliver a decade of national renewal through our five missions: economic growth, fixing the NHS, safer streets, making Britain a clean energy super-power and opportunity for all. This is what was promised and is what we are delivering.

The Government’s first Budget freed up tens of billions of pounds to invest in Britain’s future while locking in stability, preventing devastating austerity in our public services and protecting working people’s payslips.

Mission-led government rejects the sticking-plaster solutions of the past and unites public and private sectors, national, devolved and local government, business and unions, and the whole of civil society in a shared purpose. The Government will continue to deliver the manifesto of change that it was elected on.

Cabinet Office

TL;DR: "No, get fucked, lmao."

 

[Crunkle]

Getting control of this is so easy. But there's no will in government to do it.

It isn't easy because for the past 20 years, our governments (and most Western governments) have been relying on migration to boost stagnating GDP.

They're addicted. This whole "diversity is our strength!" bollocks just seems like copium to try and reassure themselves that they aren't ruining a nation and getting people killed.

 

[Gothic Runes]

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Can I call JD Vance a nigger in the UK?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

TL;DR: "No, get fucked, lmao."

"Mandate of change" in both of the first paragraphs. Sure sign of quality replies that were not proof read.

 

[EddyRooney]

It isn't easy because for the past 20 years, our governments (and most Western governments) have been relying on migration to boost stagnating GDP.

They're addicted. This whole "diversity is our strength!" bollocks just seems like copium to try and reassure themselves that they aren't ruining a nation and getting people killed.

It is easy if you have the political will.

Out of ECHR. Remove treacherous judges. Remove treacherous Human Rights lawyers. Round up all foreign nationals arriving illegally and put in concentration camps before deportation. Contain any new arrivals in said camps. Make the conditions basic - bare minimum for hygenic survival. Should act as a deterrant to new arrivals.
Begin schemes of forced repatriation for those arriving in the last decade that have been detractors from the national interest ( specifically criminals and benefit ponces ) then move on to people that don't speak the language after living here more than two years.

Only a retard would measure a nation's prosperity by GDP. It has to be PER CAPITA.
If I have a large pizza to myself, it's a feast.....if I have to share it with 20 other people, it's probably a couple of mouthfuls. The pizza has to get bigger proportionally to the number of people it is going to feed - Our pizza is at best the same size, but has to feed thousands more every day.
Can anyone be naive enough to believe that migrants create prosperity ? Fucking please....mega whoever thinks that has been reading too many economics textbooks.

"Diversity is our strength" - I only ever say that in a bleating tone at work, the same way the sheep say "two legs bad, four legs good" in Animal Farm. The implication being only braindead people that mindlessly conform can possibly say that now.

 

[Smyrna]

We wouldn't even need to leave the ECHR. It just needs to be stripped out of all domestic legislation and for the government to adopt the same attitude towards their rulings as everyone else i.e. ignore them.

The much bigger problem is the judiciary, which is obviously now completely subverted. I think the only possible workable solution would be to hive off immigration completely from the current political and legal structures and create a new one from scratch. It needs to be broken out from the Home Office, and the volume of decisions on remigrations needed will mean that if you want any progress you will need some sort of checklist-based system rather than an adjudicator's opinion. Came in illegally? Deported, no mitigation, no appeal. Overstayed your visa? Deported, no mitigation, no appeal. Committed any other crime? Deported, no appeal (aside from child rapists and terrorists who should of course be hanged). And so on. A couple of ex-RAF airports could be converted into processing and deporting centres - every boatload that comes in is sent there, they are photographed, fingerprinted, have DNA taken and their age is confirmed using biological testing. They are then all collectively denied asylum and given a choice - they can be sent back where they came from or, if they won't tell us, they can be taken to a permanent facility on Ascenion or South Georgia and they can spend the rest of their lives there.

 

[Hoi Polloi]

I feel like this is bordering on "But I did eat breakfast this morning".
If you're talking about the borders of the United Kingdom and your own national future, why the fuck does it matter that you're a non-native of Bomalia or Shitfuckistan?
You don't live there and they're also allowed to enforce their own laws.
If you don't like their laws, don't travel there!

This is the same sort of narrow-minded, absolutist thinking surrounding law that we saw leading up to Brexit as well. People seemed to think that if we left the EU, we'd immediately scrap all of the laws that existed due to our presence in the EU - as if we couldn't just write similar laws in preparation for our departure (also laughable that people couldn't wrap their head around the idea that we would've probably implemented similar laws eventually had we never joined).

In this case it feels like the statement "we should leave the ECHR and scrap the human rights act" is being disingenuously or genuinely retardedly being interpreted as "we should get rid of human rights". I can understand how its confusing for those lacking in critical thinking, particularly because it's literally called "the human rights act" but scrapping it doesn't mean abandoning the concept of a "human right" entirely.

The ECHR and Human Rights act have bloated scope, encompassing many things that are really not a human right by any moral or philosophical metric. But of course the discussion is stopped dead in its tracks by the human rights "lawyers" who intentionally misconstrue that idea as being a cliff-edge to immediate "evil" - I'm frankly surprised she didn't mention Nazi Germany or Gaza.

Came in illegally?

The problem, as I understand it, is that you can take whatever route you like to claim asylum. There are preferred routes, the ones we'd think of as legal, but a small boat crossing is just as valid. This loops back into most Brits thinking we have more illegal migrants than legal, because any sane person would think entering a foreign country by dinghy with the intent of immigrating would net you a night in jail and a swift deportation.

 

[EddyRooney]

This loops back into most Brits thinking we have more illegal migrants than legal

I think this is a reasonable assumption.

Our supposed legal migration is quantifiable. In theory we know these numbers ( possible grey area - what if someone enters legally, but then stays on illegally ( expired visa, etc ) - which group do they belong to - I bet that depends on your political allegiance ).

The illegal number is a government estimate at best. You don't think they might have a vested interest in under estimating possibly ?

It might be possible to conflate those that are illegally here, with those that we morally think shouldn't have a right to be here ( doubtless a strategy of the pro-immigration side to accuse of anyone who doesn't share their diatribe ).

Most members of the public have eyes and ears. My favourite quote of "there are that many in fucking Londonistan" is applicable here. I think it's possibly tinged with a naivity of the public that they can't believe that their governments ( across both parties ) would betray them in such a way to knowingly and legally allow an invading force to infiltrate our land to the extent that they so negatively impact our way of life, making it unrecognisable in less than a generation - surely that must be illegal ? That nice Mr Blair would never have wanted this as an endgame, surely ?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

People seemed to think that if we left the EU, we'd immediately scrap all of the laws that existed due to our presence in the EU

That is what many of us brexit voters wanted. We wanted control of our laws again so we could fix them to prevent the mess we're in. We didn't want to continue down the same path. Sadly the traitors in charge didn't get the message and decided to echo everything the EU did.

Scrapping human rights is a popular stance at this point. All they do is get weaponized against us. Removing them entirely and writing a proper British bill of rights, that protects our natives is essential to fixing our problems. We can make our own laws and stick our fingers up at the entire Blair generation and they're hecking love of the human rights.

 

[Crunkle]

Lammy may be fined for not having his fishing loicense.

Guido (Link / Archive)

In response to a previous wannabe angler running afoul of the law, Environment Agency fisheries enforcement officer Benjamin Pessl said in January:

“Anyone who thinks ‘I don’t need to buy a rod licence, no one’s going to check’ is in the wrong. We do check, regularly, and we prosecute, always. Buying a rod licence is not expensive. There’s no excuse for not having one.”