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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.

 

[PrimeRadiant]

99% every single member of the British elite class is a homosexual pedophile

Globohomo began with the boys of the elite being molested at Eton

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

Just so long as Rowan Atkinson isn't a nonce, I can deal with it.

 

[Overdrive]

it's Friday so it'll be a chippy tea for me tonight.

 

[Made In Wales]

it's Friday so it'll be a chippy tea for me tonight.

Attenborough wouldn't surprise me, can't see Del Boy or Rowan Athkinson being 'wrong 'uns' - in fact I can see both being very anti-nonce.

Leigh Francis definitely is a creep, you just have to look at him and you'll think 'eww gross take it away'.

I'll also make a bold prediction... Ant & Dec.

Two drips doing jobs that anybody else could do for the longest time - Savile was the same, anybody else could have presented the shows he did, yet HE was always chosen...

Ian Hislop as well - I reckon the real reason Angus Deayton got pulled from HIGNFY wasn't because of 'the whore' but that he knew Ian was 'dodgy'.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Going to have sausage, eggs, and home made chips for tea. Proper Norf FC dinner that.

Since it’s a slow day; what stereotypical dinners are you all having?

Fish, chips, and mushy peas.

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Man guilty of threatening to kill Nigel Farage



A man who came to the UK on a small boat has been found guilty of threatening to kill Nigel Farage in a video posted on TikTok.

Fayaz Khan, 26, posted a video last October where he named the Reform UK leader and made a gun gesture with his hand.

The jury went out at 12:54 BST on Wednesday before returning its verdict at Southwark Crown Court on Friday.

Khan had a "very large presence online" with his videos on TikTok under the username "madapasa", amassing hundreds of thousands of views.

Prosecutor Peter Ratliff said Khan's videos showed his attempts to come to the UK by small boat from Afghanistan.

On 12 October, Farage uploaded a video to YouTube titled "the journey of an illegal migrant" which highlighted Khan and referenced "young males of fighting age coming into our country about whom we know very little".

Mr Ratliff said Khan responded with a video on 14 October, which was played to the jury, in which Khan addressed the Reform UK MP as "Englishman Nigel".

The video continued: "You not know me. I come to England because I want to marry with your sister. You not know me.

"Don't talk about me more. Delete the video.

"I'm coming to England. I'm going to pop, pop, pop."

Mr Ratliff told the jury that while Khan said "pop, pop, pop" he had made "gun gestures" with his hand and headbutted the camera.

'Pretty chilling'

Khan, an Afghan migrant, had also pointed towards an AK-47 tattoo on his face to "emphasise he wasn't joking".

The prosecutor added: "If you've got an AK-47 tattooed on your arm and your face, it's because you love AK-47s and you want the world to know that."

Farage, the MP for Clacton in Essex, gave evidence on Tuesday and said Khan's video was "pretty chilling", adding: "Given his proximity to guns and love of guns, I was genuinely worried."

The Reform UK leader added: "He says he's coming to England and he's going to shoot me."

Jurors were shown other videos posted on social media by Khan in which he appeared to make "pop, pop, pop" noises and similar hand gestures to those in the TikTok video referencing Farage.

Khan was not called to give evidence on Wednesday by defence lawyer Charles Royle, but in a police interview last year he had said: "It was never my intention to kill him or anything.

"This is my character, this is how I act in my videos."

Khan said: "In every video I make those sounds, I say 'pop, pop pop'."

Jurors were also shown a screenshot of a subsequent TikTok post by Khan with the caption "I mean what I say" written on an image of a GB News report about the alleged threat against Farage.

In the prosecution's closing speech, Mr Ratliff said the alleged threat to kill was "not some off-the-cuff comment" and the video was "sinister and menacing".

He added that Khan was "a dangerous man with an interest in firearms".

In his closing defence speech, Mr Royle said Khan was "remonstrating in his own idiosyncratic, moronic, comedic, eye-catching, attention-seeking way", rather than making a threat to kill.

The Metropolitan Police said Khan is due to be sentenced on 14 October.

 

[Made In Wales]

He'll be most likely given a suspended sentence and a Parliamentary Constituency...

Meanwhile North Wales Plod are upset because this happened in Rhyl:

 

[East_Clintwood]

Hamit Coskun, the Kurdish dude who was convicted of a public order offence for burning a Koran outside the Turkish embassy (where he was also slashed at with a knife by a dude who only got a suspended sentence) has won on appeal: https://archive.ph/rPN0m

A man who was fined for burning a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has won his appeal against his conviction.
Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted abusive comments about Islam as he held the flaming book aloft in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, on 13 February.
In June, he was found guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court of a religiously aggravated public order offence and fined £240.
At Southwark Crown Court on Friday, Mr Justice Bennathan said that while burning a Quran might be something "many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive", the right to freedom of expression "must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb".

Judge's comments were fairly emphatic:

 

[Drihten]

Hamit Coskun, the Kurdish dude who was convicted of a public order offence for burning a Koran outside the Turkish embassy (where he was also slashed at with a knife by a dude who only got a suspended sentence) has won on appeal: https://archive.ph/rPN0m

Judge's comments were fairly emphatic:
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This is only because this case received such a great deal of attention, had the videos of him almost getting stabbed up not spread around, his appeal would have been rejected.
It's still farcical that it ever reached this point to begin with, and that his attacker was only given a slap on the wrist.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Praise be for the 2 sane judges today.

Attenborough

We all know why he wanted to be alone on the island with those tortoises. In the current political climate, it would be heaven.

 

[teriyakiburns]

This is only because this case received such a great deal of attention, had the videos of him almost getting stabbed up not spread around, his appeal would have been rejected.
It's still farcical that it ever reached this point to begin with, and that his attacker was only given a slap on the wrist.

It's hard to say. Justice Bennathan has only been on the bench since 2021, so he has relatively few cases to (haha) judge his record.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

A man who came to the UK on a small boat

Khan had a "very large presence online"

"You not know me. I come to England because I want to marry with your sister. You not know me.

"I'm coming to England. I'm going to pop, pop, pop."

Which war torn country was he fleeing because his life was in danger?

Farage missed a trick for not responding to his video with "KHAAAAAAAAAAN"

 

[Made In Wales]

Nigel Farage visited South Wales today:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/its-nigel-farage-show-welsh-32653212

https://archive.ph/wip/CWdfc

Well, I had to post a feel good story

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Off work with a cold today. Mainlining lemsip and soup. Hit me with your best home remedies.

While we're doing the usual game of who's (probably) a nonce, I'm gonna give my usual shout out to Linekar.

Tbh, I don't think he really is one, but I want to keep saying it so that every time there is a scandal he feels the need to go on Twitter and post "It's not me guys", like he does every time.

Get a bowl of steaming hot water and put a big menthol crystal in it, or a dollop of Vicks. Get a towel over your head and put your head over the bowl, making a kind of makeshift menthol steam tent. You’ll get a bright red face and your nose will run like Daley Thompson, but it’ll clear your sinuses up and have you feeling better quickly.

Also, Beecham’s powders. The actual powder kind that you mix with water, not the capsules. My Nan swore by them and I find they work really well when you’re feeling totally shitty.

Hamit Coskun, the Kurdish dude who was convicted of a public order offence for burning a Koran outside the Turkish embassy (where he was also slashed at with a knife by a dude who only got a suspended sentence) has won on appeal: https://archive.ph/rPN0m

Judge's comments were fairly emphatic:
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The irony of the judge’s words, when people are being arrested for making men in frocks feel a bit less “euphoric”.

As for the house in the Shankill, what kind of loonbag moves there if they’re not Norn Irish Prod? Media and police never whined when Cafflicks and Prods were burned out of their houses during the troubles. Curious, that.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

you'll need Digital ID to access your money

I'm glad I'm always proven right. I'm glad I am always correct. I am just not glad the things I am always correct about.

Feel free to use, frens.

I love how we just have a thread pet boomer. It's kinda endearing.

Fry definitely has 'wrong un' vibes.

Come on, what gives you that idea? Just because he's gay and it's statistically more likely, that doesn't mean it's real. His husband being half his age is just because he likes twinks, there's nothing dodgy about having a preference for young men half your age. That's just normal gay hours smh. He's either a nonce or a zoophile considering the kakapo incident.

The Powell scandal is quite literally treason

If they are not hung by the state I'm digging out old liz and getting her to do it. But does the average person really not have that much of an attention span? Like yea it's distractions and bullshit but like I've never had trouble hating two things at the same time before.

Shankill

Shankill lol. Colour me surprised. Doubt it was a local, if it was then it was just average belfast activities. Why would you spray racist shit on an empty house? Who are you being racist to? And am I meant to believe that a 'small fire' that only damaged the outside of the door is a genuine arson attack? Come on, anyone with a brain could kick out the boards on the window and start the fire in the house, even the average belfast resident. But no. More strange acts of people burning the slabs outside someone's house, just like that mosque last week.

Front page for belfast live but nothing on the telegraph or rte belfast. Interesting.

Hit me with your best home remedies.

Memes aside, 1-1-1 lemon honey ginger beer/ale then doubled with boiling water. Throw some whiskey in if you want. Buldak is fucking great through. Yea it's spicy but it's actually a really nice spice, it's not just spice for spice it does taste nice. Also the actual noodles holy fuck they are the best of any instant noodle brand, even some restaurants, I have no idea why but they're just fucking sexy. Won't fix your nose, you'll just get a runny nose at the same time and then shit yourself.

We all know why he wanted to be alone on the island with those tortoises. In the current political climate, it would be heaven.

An island you say? I hear that gilapagos is just a mishearing of ghislane. Whatever the fuck her name was jizz lane fucking indian shitting street for my cum. Idk though. I'd be more willing to bet he was the one getting fucked if it was a tortoise, those fucks are almost as horny as dolphins are. I would be willing to bet that if I tallied up every animal cock or having sex I've seen in a zoo it would be over 50% tortoises fucking. I've seen more tortoises fucking than I have rabbits.

Spoiler: kinda ot but youre all ill anyway so

Man idk what I'm fucked up on honestly, nhs shit you feel, no idea if the word I'm looking at is the name of the medicine or the doctor at this point. Whatever the fuck the doctors had and whatever was on my gf's side of the bed idk I hope it's ibuprofen otherwise idk I guess I'm not having a period this month? Idk they say to come back in a bit but honestly just give me another dose of whatever I'll get the fucking saw and do my own surgery at this point. Stupid dog's baffled. It's the first time she's not been alone all day for the first time other than christmas, she keeps pushing the door open slightly and peeking through to make sure she's not hallucinating I guess. Perks of having a big dog really, even if you can't really move much she's tall enough that she can still sit by me and let me give her some love still. She's cute but she's big enough now that she's getting hair all over my table and it's getting inside my mouse and my cursor is turning into a fucking parkinsons simulator. Feels almost ironic really, first time I mentioned her was after she had a really fucked period and that night I was reading trannies writing their goonfuel about how they would be turned on by having a period and how much they would love it, now here I am and she's the one that's bringing me painkillers and all that lot. I guess maybe I should try taking some birth control then? My sleep schedule is well, two hours up, two hours down, repeat 6x per day type shit. I keep having wild fever dreams, mostly about india(ns) which even on here I will not repeat, something about dealing with the nhs does that to you for some reason. Keep getting dreams about learning the bagpipes too, I think because I am almost forced to put pipe music on when going through the india thread, the only thing that can drown out the ear piercing abomination music they use is something that is quite literally designed to be as ear piercing as possible over mountains. Keep getting dreams about going down to the church too, it sounds fucking retarded and there's no way I could explain to anyone what I mean, but I just don't know what marriage feels like? I'm not a Christian but the sanctity of marriage is still important to me. I might not personally follow what it says inside but if I put my hand on the Bible and swear to God that I will love her until death do us part then I am still doing so with the same conviction as a Christian. I'm not an animal, I'm not going to go in to someone's place of worship, call everything they believe retarded and demand they do it my way. Unlike half this country I'll still respect the history and culture of it. Probably partly from my grandma but I can't really ask her for advice. Idk how long it takes for corpses to decompose but she was hardly in an advice giving state when she died let alone almost two decades on from that. I mean always knew she was the one, if she's not then how the fuck can you top someone willing to fully learn a language and move to the other side of the world for you. But at the same time idk, am I not already doing the exact same things as a husband would? The only thing that'd change is having kids but I mean right now the dog's enough work and I think trying to fuck in my condition is well probably going to end up with a 9 minute hospital trip instead of 9 monther. Idk I feel like I'm staring at some game's eula, it's a contract but what does that mean? Who am I meant to ask, half my friends are anime gaming 40k type nerds who well have never had to think about it, the other half are blue collar guys who hear cup size and go yes please milk and two sugars, or got married after two months of dating. The only person that actually is worth talking to would kinda ruin the surprise, either her or I'll have to find some wheelchair and wheel myself up a fucking hill to the local church. So here I am half awake and half lucid talking into the void on a sausage roll debate instead. Even if the debate is pointless, yea vegan or meat in greggs who cares their sausage rolls are mid anyway. It's like debating vegan big mac just go eat real food instead. It's kinda like nandos, the meme comes before the actual food does. I guess it's acceptable if you have some random craving for sausage rolls in the middle of town other than that there's much nicer places. Idk at this point the main thing I'm getting down on one knee for is to kiss her dumb fucking average asian woman 4ft tall ass.

 

[ThrobbingWalloper]

Justin Fletcher wouldn't be a surprise to me. Skeeves me out in a similar way to how Saville did. Sometimes I wonder if I'm being unfair to the man, but trusting my gut has been pretty accurate before now.

This is my penis.
You sign "penis"

 

[Made In Wales]

Some late news on GB News (paywalled):

* Moody Blues singer John Lodge dies 'unexpectedly' at 82

* Gregg Wallace 'seeking £10k' from BBC for 'distress and harassment' following MasterChef axe

* Rangers condemn 'shameful' fire attack outside Ibrox as police launch investigation

* Plaid Cymru leader rules out referendum on independence if he becomes Welsh First Minister

* Cooper defends giving children as young as 13 Digital ID's

BREAKING NEWS: Guess which Digital ID Overlord called 'Miranda' met with Jeffrey Epstein...?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yk16gpxj0o

https://archive.ph/puHIo

 

[FedPostalService]

He'll be most likely given a suspended sentence and a Parliamentary Constituency...

Meanwhile North Wales Plod are upset because this happened in Rhyl:

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If that was someone from north Wales they’d have written it in Welsh. Because they’re all inbred cunts.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Tony Blair being a nonce and evil, kinda makes sense why Starmer never picked up the Saville case. Think about it, Saville knew about Andrew being a pedo and knew shit on the royals, threatened to expose it, whilst leveraging the Mandleson and Blair stuff. He clearly knew about The Sun wiretapping too.

 

[Made In Wales]

If that was someone from north Wales they’d have written it in Welsh. Because they’re all inbred cunts.

It's only when you get to Bangor that Welsh/Cymraeg becomes more prevalent.

Rhyl isn't that big on the Welsh Language - it's only real claim to fame is that Lee Trundle once played for them.

It could have been an English person - the A55 and North Wales Main Line both allow fast access across the border.

 

[teriyakiburns]

BREAKING NEWS: Guess which Digital ID Overlord called 'Miranda' met with Jeffrey Epstein...?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yk16gpxj0o
https://archive.ph/puHIo

Little tidbits about Epstein come out in this. Clinton was "travelling" with him a lot, right after leaving office. Obviously they were noncing together, which I have to assume the intelligence agencies would have known already by that point. Which means Blair would likely have known as well.