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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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Some afternoon news:


Saint Angela's humiliation has spawned an even worse nightmare - Kelvin MacKenzie:




BBC's Tim Davie admits 'MORE scandals could come out' as he is brutally grilled by MPs:




Wales' rugby players refuse to support WRU as official statement rocks two-team plan:




Giant 52 centimetre long rat found in garden and experts explain why:


 
Mound Dweller said:
He has of course DFE'd but it's not much worth bothering to archive anyway, just look at his face it says it all really
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Did you see the community cope post and video he made where he presented the "evidence" (basically going through his court documents) before he DFE'd? Pure comedy.

He got assaulted at one protest by the rent-a-mob before all of this came to light. I think they knew before it became widely known. They surrounded him and were calling him a nonce through a PA placed against his ear. Not quite the justice he needed, but its a start.

The auditor crowd is full of misfits like this. DJE Media (Curtis Arnold) is another good example. When he isn't filming the police dredging Nicola Bulley's corpse out of the River Wyre and putting it on TikTok, he can be found taking pictures of women in the gym, taking photos in prison and committing burglary. Then there is DJ Audits (Nigel Roy Dicks) who enjoys driving from the scene of an accident when clipping kids with his car when he isn't harassing small businesses. Not forgetting A Y Audits (Anthony Barnes) who sometimes mouths off a little too much. Its a very interesting rabbit hole to go down if you're bored.
 
Muad'Dick said:
Its a very interesting rabbit hole to go down if you're bored.
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Yep, so much insanity because all these "people" are maniacs, they're the boring kind of regular everyday crazy though not the somewhat lolcowish online variety.
They all have surprisingly popular YT channels where they document their borderline civil offences too, sadly it's always clipped to shit so you never really see them get their arses properly handed to them.
 
Mound Dweller said:
Yep, so much insanity because all these "people" are maniacs, they're the boring kind of regular everyday crazy though not the somewhat lolcowish online variety.
They all have surprisingly popular YT channels where they document their borderline civil offences too, sadly it's always clipped to shit so you never really see them get their arses properly handed to them.
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You ever heard of Tobe Hayden-Leigh? He's an especially weird bloke. Tried to put his houses into a trust to avoid repossession for defaulting on his mortgages; failed; keeps arguing the toss over it and breaking back into them.
 
BongoMongo said:
You ever heard of Tobe Hayden-Leigh? He's an especially weird bloke. Tried to put his houses into a trust to avoid repossession for defaulting on his mortgages; failed; keeps arguing the toss over it and breaking back into them.
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No, but I have now lol:
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Something about these "people" is that all have registered companies, in their own names of course, it's some real "freeman of the land" bollocks I think.
I'd like to say just beating them with truncheons would fix it, but the same type of cunt exists in Shakespeare's plays so it must be a perennial issue.
 
Smyrna said:
4 Labour MPs have now thrown their hat into the Deputy Party Leader ring;

Bridget Phillipson (pro-Starmer)
Emily Thornberry (anti)
Bell Ribeiro-Addy (anti)
Lucy Powell (anti)

Several others, including Lammy, Mahmood, Streeting, Louise Haigh and Rosena Allin-Khan have ruled themselves out. It looks very much as though the Starmerites have agreed or been told to unite behind Phillipson, which means the next question is over how many antis can get on the ballot.
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The Anti's will win, and then Starmer will throw a wobbly.

Of that list, I can see Thornberry out first (she'll fall way short) and then between Ribiero-Addy and Powell it'll be a lot closer. I'll go for Powell winning but not by much (the ethnic vote will be against her).

Powell will beat Phillipson and then the fireworks will really start.

If Starmer feels that he's not in control of his Government, might the nuclear option be on the table?
 
the printer is outo fink said:
How would Linehan seeking asylum even work? Can you claim asylum because you are being persecuted in a country you aren't from?
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Well he did get convicted for mean tweets innit? I would think then the argument effectively goes that, "Well if I go back, I'm going to be persecuted." Doesn't matter if it's Ireland, England, or what-have-you, all that matters is that this is what you're claiming, and it's credible. So if Ireland isn't telling the UK to piss off on this, there's not really any reason not to try this if you're Graham.
 
Given that France is in a state, and now Nepal looks like it's going to hell in a hand-basket, maybe the tide is beginning to turn not just in the UK but globally as well.

It won't just be 'Glinner' who goes to the USA, Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins are thinking of going there as well - perhaps even Alex 'The Voice Of Reason' Belfield as well.

Are we all ready and looking forward to Donald's visit to 'Airstrip One' next week?

Oh, and Prince Harry in 'look at me, I'm so virtuous' moment:


 
The neo liberal chickens are coming home to roost every where across Europe. The collapse is getting eminent and left wing governments are collapsing in on their own disjointed ideology clashes. They've done everything they can to stop the right building and formed unstable unions between groups who massively disagree. It's all falling apart and they're not facing a much more united public who have 1 single issue they all agree on. Total nigger death.
 
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Made In Wales said:
Giant 52 centimetre long rat found in garden and experts explain why:
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From the article:
I have not seen one bigger than the 16-incher that latched onto my foot in 2016. It stunk and had flies all over it, so I had thought it was dead. But when I tried to approach, the monster bit me.“Luckily, I had steel-toe caps on and was able to hit it with a metal bar.
This man is an old-school narrator and I want to hear more.
Also this made me laugh: British Pest Control Association (BPCA) technical manager Niall Gallagher
Has he tried Wonderwarferin?
 
East_Clintwood said:
I'm curious to see how WRU solves this because they're right something needs to be done about the state of Welsh rugby, but it seems like basically everyone hates the current proposals for one reason or another.
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The WRU won't solve it, unless they can get their way.

98% of fans oppose what is on offer, and most of them (including me) would rather go back to the days of club rugby with Llanelli, Swansea, Neath, Bridgend, Pontypridd, Cardiff, Newport, Ebbw Vale etc.

It's only idiots like 'Squidge Rugby' who back the proposal because he cares more about his social media presence than the game.

If the WRU tell the players 'do as we command' then there will be a player strike and the four home matches in November (against Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa) will either have to be cancelled or the Barbarians will have to play in place of Wales.

The thing that will ultimately sink the WRU board (Tierney et al) will be when the clubs quit the Union and form their own rival/renegade one as NatWest will not fund the WRU without the teams.
 
Since covid I have had nothing but disdain for the British Parliament. I am much more on the chaos route now of just breaking the wheel.

Germany will go next because they have to help France due to being tied to the Euro, and it wants to deny America as much influence as possible.
 
Kier Starmer said:
Since covid I have had nothing but disdain for the British Parliament. I am much more on the chaos route now of just breaking the wheel.

Germany will go next because they have to help France due to being tied to the Euro, and it wants to deny America as much influence as possible.
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If Germany goes, France will have to go because they aren't going to pay the Krauts' share of the EU budget anytime soon.

Germany will go when China tells them to.

Don't forget who Germany's biggest market is - Chinky Chong, followed by Uncle Sam and then the Britbongs.
 
Fucks sake, can I not piss away a few quid in the pub backing 3 legged nags that are one harsh look from the glue factory without some neo-Puritan trying to ban that?

I enjoy gambling, on the rare occasion I pick a horse that limps over the line first I promptly trouser however much my initial stake was that day and keep on gambling. Doesn't harm anyone, and I can think of much more socially damaging behaviours.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
Fucks sake, can I not piss away a few quid in the pub backing 3 legged nags that are one harsh look from the glue factory without some neo-Puritan trying to ban that?

I enjoy gambling, on the rare occasion I pick a horse that limps over the line first I promptly trouser however much my initial stake was that day and keep on gambling. Doesn't harm anyone, and I can think of much more socially damaging behaviours.
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Next time, look at them sternly and tell them 'As a Disabled Black Trans Lady, I find you to be a repugnant racist!'

Trust me, their heads will spin.
 
Had a police display in the town center today "Keeping Your Streets Safe" or somesuch corporate doublespeak. 2 gazebo tents with stacks of leaflets and about 20 bored looking coppers. Might be just coincidence that the fun fair is in town until Sunday, I'm sure all the gyppos/carnies are good law abiding citizens.

Though warms my heart seeing the Union Jacks and St Georges all along the main roads still.
 
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