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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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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.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

"Key word being before. If it hasn't worked before then why are they trying again?" Are you looking at this government squinted? They're all retards of the highest order. We have an "economist" who does not even know what the Laffer curve is. This ID is being handled by the fucking Science Minister and not the Technology Minister, which they actually merged into Sciences which is dumb. On top of that, she was the DWP minister and that is a car crash currently. The cabinet is playing fucking Team Fortress 2 with hats, concocting what amazing role they're fulfilling today because they're all batshit crazy. Not one minister has either experience in their role or is exemplary in their field. Starmer, from all accounts, during his time in law was called "average" or "not-assertive."

The one saving grace is he has the entire establishment against him, oh and our good little house negro Kemi. Btw, good job on your future defections because they're going to come fast now.

I just looked at X., Good job Keith, you created a quadpartisan agreement to go against the digital ID. It's going to be this gum-faced cretin sat with his sycophants and Kemi whilst the house shreds him.

 

[Muad'Dick]

Any form of national ID is a terminal red line for the majority of the English population.

Twenty years or more ago I would have believed you. After the coof, rape of young girls on an industrial scale, machete niggers in the streets, people getting jailed for boomer Facebook posts etc? Not so much. If they introduce digital ID the UK population will roll over once again to have it's belly tickled. Fuck, the government would only have to incentivize it with a few Costa vouchers and the servers would crash within the first five minutes due to demand. We are a completely atomised and deracinated people. A good chunk of the population will sign up to this bullshit just to virtue signal and most of the rest will simply capitulate.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

They're all retards of the highest order.

When it comes to the government I always treat it as an inverse hanlon's razor situation. Never attribute that which can be easily explained by malice to stupidity. I don't believe they are retarded enough to not understand something that was very explicitly shown already. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying they're going to be able to finally create the system and have it work flawlessly and not leak everyone's information to the chinese in a week. They're too inept to properly enact it and will either collapse or be voted out before they can try. But the main concern is that yet again they are trying to push something that continues to be one of the most retarded ideas we have ever had to listen to. I don't believe that they just randomly looked back and decided to resurrect an idea that died for a good and obvious reason, someone has to be whispering things in people's ears, until those people are dead and buried those whispers can never be discounted. I'm not worried about kier enacting it. I'm worried that it continues to be a thing politicians think about enacting because one day we might have a party that isn't a fucking joke and that can actually do things. They keep trying to push this sort of shit, yes, it has failed every single time. If you suggest something retarded once that's a lapse in judgement, twice is suspect but maybe just retarded, suggesting that same thing three or more times is just malice. If they haven't already gotten the message that we do not want this then they will never get that message and will continue trying until they enact it. They said it best themselves: Several Times On Purpose. I hope I am proven wrong. But I would rather be skeptical of the government and proven wrong than the other way around.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Labour have nothing to lose by pushing through IDs. What are we going to do hate them more? It's not possible. So they will push a plan for IDs through and hope the next government runs with it. Same way the online safety act worked. More police state for the uniparty.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Can I have some of what you're on please? Why would you ever give a Nigerian leading the conservative party a chance?

I think it's clear based on our previous interactions why I would give her a chance. I don't like judging people on characteristics they can't change, I've come to learn that believing that is naive.

 

[Made In Wales]

Not entirely high unless Prince William reveals he is actually extremely based (not tremendously likely, sadly) and decides to attempt a takeover after deposing his father. The monarch is actually the Head of our Armed Forces and has supreme military authority, even today.
Whether the army would actually follow the monarch/future monach for the sake of the country's future isn't really clear though, they do take an oath to the current monarch and the heirs to the crown, but the British monarch has a fuckload of theoretical power. Of course, actually using any of that power would cause an immediate constitutional crisis, but fuck it, we're in about 16 different crisis anyway already so whatever.

Legally, if William became king, he has that power. It'd be a clusterfuck, though.

What you're suggesting here almost happened in 1974 with a plot against Wilson by Hugh Cudlipp, Lord Mountbatten and Cecil King with MI5 adding that Wilson was a KGB agent.

Now, if Starmer could be outed as KGB/a Russian Spy or Shill somehow then it would trigger an international incident and Westminster would be on lockdown until he is removed.

William is too loyal to his Father and wouldn't do it - Harry might be tempted to but as the outsider/spare he has little chance. William will be King soon as HM King Charles III is still suffering from cancer and there does not look likely that a cure will be found (it might even be a turbo-cancer).

There is one way which the Government could fall, but I will not say it here as prying eyes may get twitchy and it's best I don't say in DM's either.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I think it's clear based on our previous interactions why I would give her a chance. I don't like judging people on characteristics they can't change, I've come to learn that believing that is naive.

And now you can never relax on a British street again.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

So Mohammed Umbongo arrives on a boat and tries to get a job.

"Sorry mate, you can't have a job because you don't have a digital ID"

Does Mohammed:

A) Go "My bad" and fuck back off to Pakistafrica
B) Ignore that and go work for his seventeen brothers at a sketchy car wash

 

[Kofi Drinka]

B) Ignore that and go work for his seventeen brothers at a sketchy car wash

C) Borrow Mohammed UmBungo's phone like his 10 sisters who use the same ID to work for Uber eats and Deliveroo?

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Every new academic year, foreign students would be found in campus housing with dead ducks strung up in their kitchen windows, taken from the various campus ponds. Every academic year, staff would gently but forcefully attempt to educate foreign students that the local wildlife is not for catching and eating. Common knowledge, and I’d wager most other universities with local duck populations have the same issue.

Add to that the hanging of clothing from every point possible but the cupboard - usually light fittings, curtain rails, smoke alarms and sprinklers. Oh no, the sprinkler just randomly went off for some reason, and not due to being clattered by an idiot with a hanger, no.

Doesn’t stop in off-campus housing either. It seems many foreign students have no concept of regular bin collections, and instead just chuck their full bin bags in the nearest outside space they can find (usually back or front gardens). And they walk past them merrily each day even when the pile gets higher than they are.

Most of these students were Chinese. Make of that what you will.

Some fucking hilarious music that they played, though. No idea about the Chinese popular music scene, but wow do they have some crooners.

I feel like I have to intervene here a bit to help you out.
1) As Trump would say "They (China) are not sending their best". All the educated people who wanted to leave and had some cultural decency left in the 90s. You're stuck with the kids who were raised by literal peasant farmers who struck it rich during the 2008-2013 economical boom, better than jeets but not exactly a high bar...
2) You're dealing with southern Chinese lmao. Ever heard of three squeaks? That's a classic meme it's newborn baby mice dipped in beer eaten alive, first squeek when born, second squeek when picked up with chopsticks, third squeek when dipped in beer and eaten
3) Go confront which ever Chinese retard chucks the rubbish bags outside (video it), then go complain to your MP during surgical (?) or effective methodthey aren't actually smart because they lack memory skills*, or critical thinking skills.
4) You have a nanny state... Use it and make it a finable offense lmao. Plus isn't poaching a felony? Enjoy deportation, retard child.

*There was a major crackdown in China (the government loves such things) around 2022-2024 about this. They literally had people standing at the garbage bins going through your rubbish bags and would fine you if you didn't put it in the right bin (recycle, food waste, regular, hazardous). Littering was fucking free laogai, people lost their jobs over this shit, students would get expelled, and a more than a few party secretaries lost their positions.

So Mohammed Umbongo arrives on a boat and tries to get a job.

"Sorry mate, you can't have a job because you don't have a digital ID"

Does Mohammed:

A) Go "My bad" and fuck back off to Pakistafrica
B) Ignore that and go work for his seventeen brothers at a sketchy car wash

You might as well learn from China. Throw them in a labor camp generating value until they pay off the cost of their deportation and some. And feed them half rotten veggies and rice until they become too weak to work or try to cross again.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

I very rarely implore or celebrate demises, but when this evil fucker perishes, British politics will at least improve. The second Labour gets in, he is skulking like a vulture.

It is fucking wild that Jeremy Corbyn and Farage agree on something. I would not be surprised if they gang up, as they both disagree on the same points.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

3) Go confront which ever Chinese retard chucks the rubbish bags outside (video it), then go complain to your MP during surgical (?) or effective methodthey aren't actually smart because they lack memory skills*, or critical thinking skills.

) You have a nanny state... Use it and make it a finable offense lmao. Plus isn't poaching a felony? Enjoy deportation, retard child.

Go away fatty. You have no idea what you're talking about.

Twenty years or more ago I would have believed you. After the coof, rape of young girls on an industrial scale, machete niggers in the streets, people getting jailed for boomer Facebook posts etc? Not so much. If they introduce digital ID the UK population will roll over once again to have it's belly tickled. Fuck, the government would only have to incentivize it with a few Costa vouchers and the servers would crash within the first five minutes due to demand. We are a completely atomised and deracinated people. A good chunk of the population will sign up to this bullshit just to virtue signal and most of the rest will simply capitulate.

The people would just take it. I hate to say it but they would. Look at the OSA and the response to that. People just took it, whined on change.org and got told to fuck off by the government. The same thing would happen with IDs.

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I very rarely implore or celebrate demises, but when this evil fucker perishes, British politics will at least improve. The second Labour gets in, he is skulking like a vulture.

It is fucking wild that Jeremy Corbyn and Farage agree on something. I would not be surprised if they gang up, as they both disagree on the same points.

Of course he's going to continue to manage his project of collapsing the UK. He isn't skulking, he's just carrying on like he always has.

 

[Vining]

I've eaten Nando's for the first time (the ones in the US) and I must say, their garlic bread is the best I've ever had. You Brits must have it good with plenty of Nandos spots over there.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

This fucking idiot managed to beat trump by 1% for most hated person in this country, the same country that hated him before it was cool for libs to hate.

Maybe Keir will be known as the great unifier in the history books.

It's going to be this gum-faced cretin sat with his sycophants and Kemi whilst the house shreds him.

It is fucking wild that Jeremy Corbyn and Farage agree on something. I would not be surprised if they gang up, as they both disagree on the same points.

Kemi supporting Keir basically gave the go ahead to everyone that would normally oppose everything the Tories are for.

 

[Otterly]

Why does he sound like his nose is constantly stuffed?

His voicebox needs an update. When we say his father was a toolmaker, we means kier is not exactly a real boy

Asking British kiwi's: What are the chances of a military coup?

Nil. Not happening. Urban skirmishing like the troubles? Non-zero chance

Any form of national ID is a terminal red line for the majority of the English population. All you people dooming that they'd accept it to get a pint and a cheeky nandos are retarded; it has never worked before. The covid pass doesn't count, because it didn't work. Very few people outside the westminster bubble accepted it.

My parents, who are typical respectful boomers, utterly rejected Covid IDs. So did their social circle. It was a red line for them. They politely but firmly did the ‘I’m sorry young man but I will not be signing in, no’.

I very rarely implore or celebrate demises, but when this evil fucker perishes, British politics will at least improve. The second Labour gets in, he is skulking like a vulture.

Blair is a creature straight from hell. He is responsible for the start of all this. My loathing of him cannot be adequately quantified.

 

[Crunkle]

So, saw this when I woke up, bit late but hey, shows the scale of this backlash to voter ID:


Might be a bit easier to make a list of people who support digital ID rather than a list of people who oppose it:

 

[Smyrna]

If petitions are your thing, this one against digital ID has gone up by about 500,000 since the announcement yesterday (it was started a while ago when Starmer first flew that particular kite), and is increasing by 1,000 every minute.

https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=730194

 

[Clem Fandango]

Blair is a creature straight from hell. He is responsible for the start of all this. My loathing of him cannot be adequately quantified.

>open BBC News website
>"Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority"

Ah, so this is how it all ends.

 

[Crunkle]

...is increasing by 1,000 every minute.

Never seen a petition move this fast.

The fury at this policy is immense, absolutely amazing to see. I still think he will be gone by March but at this rate the only Christmas lights he'll be switching on is Weston-super-Mare in 2045.

 

[Smyrna]

If you like polling, YouGov have commissioned an MRP poll (larger sample than normal poll, different methodology involving individual seat calculations, theoretically more accurate), showing that if a general election were held this week, Reform would win 311 seats vs. Labour on 144, Lib Dems on 78, Tories on 45 etc.

These numbers would open the door to brilliant chaos - Reform would obviously not quite have a majority but the next 5 parties added together would have 318 and would also not have a majority. Any government composition would therefore depend on the support of either the Gaza independents and\or Northern Ireland MPs.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-ahead-polls-yougov-fjknd8glh | https://archive.ph/1CiHn