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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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Kofi Drinka said:
Pictured with her husband and meeting families over meningitis in children. Slag posts between talking about her dead baby.

Don't know what talktv is but it's there if you want to listen to the cow's opinions. I'd recommend a cheeky wank and clearing the browser history before the wife checks it.

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She is a proper slag. Theres pictures of her and her sister lezzing off on night outs. That was a rabbit hole to go down.

Wonder if they both ate kebab after those night outs and I don't mean donner..

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Cloaca Rimjob said:
She is a proper slag. Theres pictures of her and her sister lezzing off on night outs. That was a rabbit hole to go down.

Wonder if they both ate kebab after those night outs and I don't mean donner..

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Women pretending to be dykes for male attention don't much kebab after.

I'm not going to fault her. Despite her weird eyes I think most of us would have taken her and her sister home if they had offered to go together.

Cat Deeley has aged the best out of all the 90s-00s TV slags. She married a wet blanket though. Complete twat looking bloke
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Women pretending to be dykes for male attention don't munch kebab after.
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Yeah but theres wierd vibes when the other girl is the sister.

Kofi Drinka said:
Cat Deeley has aged the best out of all the 90s-00s TV slags. She married a wet blanket though. Complete twat looking bloke
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Broke my heart as a young lad when she kissed the guy from ant n dec on that saturday morning show. Dont know which ones which,the one who doesnt have a huge foredome that stops him from driving sober.

I would.....
Fuck Danielle Nicholls, marry kristin o brien, kill the entire staff at the BBC
 
I am quite sure that Common Purpose are involved somewhere with McSweeney and the Arlington Group as well as other Third Sector/Fifth Column types within Labour.
 
teriyakiburns said:
They're Spanish or southern French. You can see their tan lines.
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The video had Geri with her norks out and you're studying fellas tan lines...
Clem Fandango said:
I think they're just Spanish, which makes sense given the song and all.
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That's the psyop, innit? They start off with a regular johnny foreigner, someone relatable, then over time dial the colour all the way to Congolese spear chucker.
How many spaniards are on TV vs Ali Bulbhead and Winston Umbwaeke?
 
Kofi Drinka said:
They're Europeans with a sun tan mate. They aren't browns.

Geri always seemed a bit of a munter to me. Bunton was the hot spice girl and none of them had a chance against Sophie Elis Bextor.
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Fuck you Kofi you absolute nigger, I disagree as necessary with courtesy when it comes to political opinions but I will not have you spout such absolute nonsense when it comes to Geri, and comparing her to Sophie EB is absolute madness. Sophie is the southern puff pinup.
 
Urgent review ordered into asylum seeker taxi costs

The home secretary has ordered an urgent review into the use and cost of taxis to transfer asylum seekers from their hotels to appointments.

The move by Shabana Mahmood follows a BBC investigation that found some migrants have to travel long distances on journeys costing hundreds of pounds.

One asylum seeker told the BBC he had taken a 250-mile journey to visit a GP, with the driver telling him the cost to the Home Office was £600.

Asylum seekers are issued with a bus pass for one return journey per week, but for any other necessary travel, such as a doctor's appointment, taxis are called.

The BBC asked the government how much it spends on taxi travel for asylum seekers via a Freedom of Information Act request, but the Home Office said it does not keep these figures.

The File on Four investigation reported that asylum seekers must show proof of an upcoming appointment at the reception desk of their hotel, where a taxi is booked on an automated system. Public transport or walking is not presented as an option.

This can result in some unusually long journeys and others that are unusually short.

For instance, when migrants move between hotels, they sometimes keep the same NHS doctors - especially for GP referrals.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he agreed that there should be an investigation into how the system works.

"I'm not surprised that this was a feature that caught people's eye", he said.

On Tuesday, housing minister Matthew Pennycook told the Today programme it was "questionable" that asylum seekers needed to take such long taxi journeys and said the government would "look into those cases".

He added that asylum seekers were not "ordinary citizens just jumping on a bus".

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp, said: "Every £600 taxi ride for migrants is money that should be paying for British patients to see their GP or for ambulances to turn up on time. This is why people feel the system is rigged against them.

"Labour are writing a blank cheque for illegal immigration while services for hard-working families are strained."

Reform UK MP Lee Anderson said: "This is likely just the tip of the iceberg and yet another example of how the Tories and Labour have spent billions supporting migrants at the expense of our own people."

A spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats called the taxi costs "a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money and shows exactly why the government must take the asylum crisis seriously and end hotel use".

The BBC went into four hotels housing asylum seekers, as part of its investigation, uncovering cramped living conditions, illegal working, and fire alarms covered with plastic bags, as residents secretly cooked meals over electric hobs in bathrooms.

The BBC found:

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A 12-year-old girl living in a hotel who had spent three-quarters of her life in the asylum system. "Once we get settled in a place, then they move us," she said

Some asylum seekers saying they had no choice but to work illegally for as little as £20 a day to pay off debts to people smugglers

The issue of asylum seekers in hotels has become a heated political issue attracting protests and a legal challenge by an Essex council attempting to close a hotel in its district.

The government plans to end the use of hotels for housing asylum seekers.

In August, asylum seekers told the BBC that protests outside hotels left them feeling isolated and anxious.

They emphasised that they did not choose to live in hotels and struggled in "damp and dirty" conditions.


Lots of sneaky admissions in this one. Hotel migrants working under the table and getting everything paid for, including transport. First in line for in-person GP appointments too, by the sound of things.

BBC even covering this is peculiar. I wonder what their angle is now? I mean, other than the usual sob stories about how hard life is for these poor immigrant children.
 
@teriyakiburns The BBC also today platformed, without interruption, Nuclear Test Veterans - one of whom openly said that he has waited over 400 days for a reply from Sir Keir Starmer to a letter which his MP passed to the PM on his behalf.

There was no 'oh but we can't criticise Starmer' stance taken, and the woke idiots online are fuming that 'Dear Leader' was treated this way by the BBC and mere underlings.

The BBC knows that Farage will axe them, perhaps they are trying to appease him and Reform UK by saying 'please don't get rid of us, we'll change, we'll listen... just don't make us work in McDonald's...'
 
I don't see Farage axeing the BBC. They'll try to get the BBC on side with them and to act as their propaganda arm. It won't work but it's the exact sort of thing Farage would try.
 
bort420 said:
It basically requires the origin country to be at the "human rights standard" of the UK which few to none are, since shithole countries aren't known for treating prisoners kindly. Removing this one provision alone opens up the gates.
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Or we could just start punishing them the way their home countries would if it's worse. Call it cultural sensitivity.
Made In Wales said:
As for 90s ladies, well there's only one for me - Hannah Spearitt (or Hannah from S Club 7).

Yes, I'll admit I like some of their songs.

However, the film they put out in 2003 was arguably one of the worst films ever.
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Decent choice. But was the film worse than the tv series?
 
How long do you think it's going to be before this left wing political violence spreads to the UK? We follow them like a lost sheep and especially the leftists online do. Are we going to start seeing extreme leftist violence here copy catting the increased usage there?
 
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