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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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Ed Davey is likely to be the next LOTO, barring a challenge from Sarah Olney or similar.

Labour and Tories will be lucky to get double figures, I can see both getting zero - it is entirely possible that the two biggest parties in our lifetimes will become former parties like the Whigs.

Lib Dems need to rule out deals with the Greens and Plaid, but also be aware that in Wales at least they aren't going to win one seat - Wales is likely going to go 22-10 to Reform (22 seats for Reform, 10 for Plaid as a best case scenario for Plaid assuming the Green vote also crashes).

There's not going to be a coalition opposition unless the Greens can get past 100 seats - very doubtful.
 
In a non-rigged government, the Lib Dems would be capitalising on the collapse of the tories and labour by playing 'reform but nice'.
If I was their Leader, I would offer to rejoin the EU and deport the boaters .
My slogan would be "Your votes stop the boats".

Hello landslide.
 
Duane Dibbley said:
In a non-rigged government, the Lib Dems would be capitalising on the collapse of the tories and labour by playing 'reform but nice'.
If I was their Leader, I would offer to rejoin the EU and deport the boaters .
My slogan would be "Your votes stop the boats".

Hello landslide.
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“If you want a boater for a neighbour, vote Labour.”
 
Duane Dibbley said:
In a non-rigged government, the Lib Dems would be capitalising on the collapse of the tories and labour by playing 'reform but nice'.
If I was their Leader, I would offer to rejoin the EU and deport the boaters .
My slogan would be "Your votes stop the boats".

Hello landslide.
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Don't forget to enter the Conference on a speedboat and proceed to jump up and down on a bouncy castle.

'Hey, I'm whacky and liberal, vote for me.. I'm totally not ripping off affable spaffable Bozo Johnson!'

Sad news from the world of Rugby Union - World Cup winner Lewis Moody has been diagnosed with MND:


 
There's just something really funny about how Kemi became the Conservative leader at the worst possible time. Sunak left, Starmer got in, Kemi became Conservative leader and Southport happened which completely changed the entire face of British politics and left Kemi looking like the face of the Boriswave.

The entire election has turned into an immigration debate and Kemi cannot in good faith argue any position that won't have her lose popularity. Even if she said that she'd close immigration for good she'd get roasted as a hypocrite who is shutting the gates after she's already gotten through.

The only reason I think she's being kept in there is because the low IQ boriswavers who are working in care and hospitality take one look at her and go "she looks like me so I'll vote for her" and no matter what she says, she's going to be the obvious choice unless a more popular darkie replaces her or Starmer.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
There's just something really funny about how Kemi became the Conservative leader at the worst possible time. Sunak left, Starmer got in, Kemi became Conservative leader and Southport happened which completely changed the entire face of British politics and left Kemi looking like the face of the Boriswave.

The entire election has turned into an immigration debate and Kemi cannot in good faith argue any position that won't have her lose popularity. Even if she said that she'd close immigration for good she'd get roasted as a hypocrite who is shutting the gates after she's already gotten through.

The only reason I think she's being kept in there is because the low IQ boriswavers who are working in care and hospitality take one look at her and go "she looks like me so I'll vote for her" and no matter what she says, she's going to be the obvious choice unless a more popular darkie replaces her or Starmer.
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I think they voted her in so she could go full auslander raus and Labour would get onto shit calling her a porch monkey and an uncle Tom whilst she was dropping n-bombs.

Instead they’ve got a weird posh negress who is an utter damp squib and who has the personality of Karen in HR.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
There's just something really funny about how Kemi became the Conservative leader at the worst possible time. Sunak left, Starmer got in, Kemi became Conservative leader and Southport happened which completely changed the entire face of British politics and left Kemi looking like the face of the Boriswave.

The entire election has turned into an immigration debate and Kemi cannot in good faith argue any position that won't have her lose popularity. Even if she said that she'd close immigration for good she'd get roasted as a hypocrite who is shutting the gates after she's already gotten through.

The only reason I think she's being kept in there is because the low IQ boriswavers who are working in care and hospitality take one look at her and go "she looks like me so I'll vote for her" and no matter what she says, she's going to be the obvious choice unless a more popular darkie replaces her or Starmer.
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True, or Jenrick was too Right Wing for them as leader or he's planning on joining Reform UK.

The Tories of today are the Lib Dems of the Steele/Ashdown era:

'Hey, let's not get heavy man... chill and sit on the fence, it'll sort itself out...'

Also RIP to former Leicester City, Portsmouth and Sheffield Wednesday owner Milan Mandaric who has died aged 87.

Looks like yet more bad news for Labour... anybody fancy a Chinese?


 
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I find it tragic that I can't pronounce the leader of the oppositions name without at least 4 attempts. (I am genuinely trying)

"Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch" Say that fast three times.
 
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I find it tragic that I can't pronounce the leader of the oppositions name without at least 4 attempts. (I am genuinely trying)

"Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch" Say that fast three times.
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You’ll conjure up broomsticks and water buckets with chants like that, son.
 
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Looks like yet more bad news for Labour... anybody fancy a Chinese?
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I was just coming to post this. Prosecution started under the tories, now dropped because it would cause problems for Labour's relationship with the Chinese government. Labour seems intent o cosying up to the CCP from the sound of things.

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"Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch" Say that fast three times.
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God dammit, now there's little gibbering brownies running around my house! You absolute git!
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
There's just something really funny about how Kemi became the Conservative leader at the worst possible time. Sunak left, Starmer got in, Kemi became Conservative leader and Southport happened which completely changed the entire face of British politics and left Kemi looking like the face of the Boriswave.

The entire election has turned into an immigration debate and Kemi cannot in good faith argue any position that won't have her lose popularity. Even if she said that she'd close immigration for good she'd get roasted as a hypocrite who is shutting the gates after she's already gotten through.

The only reason I think she's being kept in there is because the low IQ boriswavers who are working in care and hospitality take one look at her and go "she looks like me so I'll vote for her" and no matter what she says, she's going to be the obvious choice unless a more popular darkie replaces her or Starmer.
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All that, plus what sort of absolute madman/woman would want to be the face of the Conservatives right now. Unless things get really bad for Labour there won't be an early GE, so the job of Kemi is to sit there getting shit on by every other party for the next few years, just to watch Reform take the place as the opposite to Labour. I know it will be the way it's been done forever so can't/won't change, but I don't see why the Conservatives are even sat across from Labour in the commons, they aren't the opposition. If there were any justice the shadow party would be the one with the highest projected vote share.
 
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>Palantir disavowing the British state
>12% government approval rating
>Tommy Robinson invited to Israel
You guys are getting a color revolution aren't you
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Funnily enough, when asked on multiple occasions, Betz always predicts this or secondly, the Dirty Wars.

As for the Digital ID, it is all but dead, but he cannot claim its defeat because it would effectively be the death of Blairism as a whole. Digital ID and infinite immigration were the last embers, but popularity-wise, it's over.

Anyone who knows the British infrastructure knows that Digital ID cannot even function. There are areas of the country that don't even have consistent 4G, and for this, you will need 5G. The UK barely has 5G, even in freaking London. I talked earlier about training, as Phishing/Ransomware are huge vectors that will get through.
Legally, Starmer can be sued, and he does not want that, as he is so despised.
 
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