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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.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

It's like everyone is larping as those faggots in The Young Ones who want you to give them money otherwise you're a dirty stinking fascist bully boy.

 

[Made In Wales]

It's like everyone is larping as those faggots in The Young Ones who want you to give them money otherwise you're a dirty stinking fascist bully boy.

'Give us your money!'

This isn't a Crimestoppers appeal, nor is it a Greggs - Sir.

My riposte to all the begging/grifting ads and appeals.

 

[Drama Trauma]

So the UK recreated their own version of the DSA 2019 disaster.
Every greatness masterpiece has it's own copy it seems, lol:

 

[Crunkle]

It's like everyone is larping as those faggots in The Young Ones who want you to give them money otherwise you're a dirty stinking fascist bully boy.

Honestly, you could add an 80s film grain and a Rik Mayall "Down with Thatcher!" and it would probably fit what they're chatting shit about now.

Add that to the Tories constantly trying to revive Thatcher with their leaders with blue suits.

 

[Made In Wales]

Honestly, you could add an 80s film grain and a Rik Mayall "Down with Thatcher!" and it would probably fit what they're chatting shit about now.

Add that to the Tories constantly trying to revive Thatcher with their leaders with blue suits.

Still marginally better than the Ginger Whinger of Islwyn falling over on Brighton beach...

Edit: Some late news...

* Nigel Farage reports Rachel Reeves to PM's ethics adviser after 'serious Budget breach' allegations

* Rachel Reeves on the ropes as majority of Britons say Chancellor should resign in aftermath of Budget 'lies'

* Labour desperately try to shore up Rachel Reeves as Chancellor denies 'lying' over £30billion Budget fallacy

* Jeremy Corbyn cannot become leader of his own party after members vote for Zarah Sultana's 'collective leadership' model

* Billy Bonds dies aged 79 as tributes pour in for West Ham United legend

* Human rights lawyer who founded Dignitas ends life at one of his own assisted suicide clinics

* BBC HIGNFY in ‘antisemitism’ row thanks to ‘hateful’ Jeremy Corbyn remark: ‘Even the audience wince!’

* 'A terrible idea!' David Lammy slammed by lawyers over plans to scrap juries as 'appalling' loss for British liberty

* Camilla Tominey CLASHES with Lib Dem deputy leader after branding Nigel Farage 'danger to national security'

* Richard Tice rejects 'nonsense' claims Nigel Farage was antisemitic at school after Kemi Badenoch demands apology

* Cambridge University cosies up to Nigel Farage 'to get ready for a Reform government'

* BBC savaged by Reform over councillor resignation coverage in fresh bias row: 'Another nail in the coffin!'

* Home Secretary orders probe into police 'using false evidence' to ban Israeli fans from Villa game

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

'Give us your money!'

This isn't a Crimestoppers appeal, nor is it a Greggs - Sir.

It's Your Turn (Band Aid Spoof).mp3

My riposte to all the begging/grifting ads and appeals.

I had a right chuckle at the Grinch ASDA advert. Talking about how everyone is fucking poor before diverting to "But you should spend your cash at OUR megaplex superstore"

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Your Party is now officially named Your Party, what a farce. Voting for a party name? Everyone knows any vote by the British public would result in it being called Party McPartyFace. Co-leadership confirmed, yet Zarah and Jezza seem to not be on speaking terms.
Senior Cabinet Ministers are now telling the Times;

"At no point were the Cabinet told about the reality of the OBR forecasts. Had we been told, we might have been in a position to advise against setting hares running on income tax and giving the public the impression we are casual about our manifesto commitments. The handling of this Budget has been a disaster from start to finish."

Reeves was told that new forecasts gave a blackhole of 4.2 billion, not 30, or 60, or whatever, billion she harped on about.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Your Party is genuinely the Christmas gift that keeps on giving. They should just call it the VIBES party because I don't think I've actually seen a coherent policy and there's literally only 4 members. Anyone straying from the pack and asking certain questions are immediately booted off stage.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Politics is fucked, the budget was a personal insult, the weather is shit and I'm in work tomorrow. However, the tree is up, I have been listening to Christmas music and I am feeling positively festive.

 

[soulless guarantee]

Co-leadership confirmed, yet Zarah and Jezza seem to not be on speaking terms.

It's not necessarily clear as to whether Zarah and Jezza would be co-leaders. The co-leader structure seems to consist of members of the Central Executive Committee, with the Chair, Vice-Chair, amd Spokesperson in particular serving as the public political leadership. The current wording in the constitution on their website (not yet updated to confirm the option of co leadership has been selected) uses the term "ordinary members" to make up the CEC. The general understanding (I saw it in a guardian piece and on wikipedia, although the wiki source is the guardian) is that "ordinary members" means non-MPs. So that would rule out Sultana and Corbyn from an official role in leadership unless I suppose they were able to be Chair / Vice Chair / Spokesperson. I'd need to go back and check the introductory speeches at the conference, but I'm pretty sure the panel of people sat onstage were one / some / all of these roles already.

While browsing wiki, I found this interesting tidbit, referencing a New Statesman article: "The [Electoral] Commission requires a single named leader and does not recognise co-leadership."

I haven't deep dived much further into their constitution etc, but so far it seems to be the classic socialist thing of setting up a committee in order to agree to set up another committee etc etc.

I really can't see YP presenting any sort of political challenge as they are going to be bogged down in sluggish voting etc. The Greens are going to be more of a challenger because they can be a bit more dynamic by having a single leader to guide the party and get people to toe the line. Also, once an Islamic party appears (has been in the works for years, I believe, but just had issues around actually getting registered with the Electoral Commission), the remaining (2?) Muslim independent MPs will jump ship to that, and take any Muslim supporters (who are with YP mostly for the Gaza single issue) with them.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Central Executive Committee, with the Chair, Vice-Chair, amd Spokesperson

People's Judean Front was FIFTY FUCKING YEARS AGO arrrgghhhhhh

These "people" really don't know their history

 

[K-Hole]

A working class socialist is just a Tory who thinks only other people should pay taxes, so maybe they are the working man’s party?

I don't like John Lennon. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
'Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
'Til you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be

Spoiler: Lyrics

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
'Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
'Til you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me

Fuck it. Let's have it right!

A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be

 

[FedPostalService]

Your Party is now officially named Your Party, what a farce. Voting for a party name? Everyone knows any vote by the British public would result in it being called Party McPartyFace. Co-leadership confirmed, yet Zarah and Jezza seem to not be on speaking terms.
Senior Cabinet Ministers are now telling the Times;

Reeves was told that new forecasts gave a blackhole of 4.2 billion, not 30, or 60, or whatever, billion she harped on about.

I thought a public vote would have given us the Hitler Did Nothing Wrong Party. Which given all the members thought about Jewish people would have fit.

 

[Otterly]

I was down in London last week for (redacted spec ops) and I saw a really fancy Greggs in Canary Wharf, and it made me laugh. I nearly took a picture of it.

@Otterly and her foxy friend spotted running around in Lincoln:

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cwylwpqw5ngo

Needs a Lily Allen soundtrack, and a suggestion that John Lewis is a good place for Christmas shopping.

Well you know I stopped off in Lincoln in the way back up to raise some hell with my foxy pal. I just love these stories where they find animals being friends - they must have lives far more fun and detailed than we think.

the closest I can find is this.

It is primarily the media and "science" coordinating to create a new narrative of there being no native Britons, though. Politicians follow along. Their argument is that, because of the Roman, Saxon, and Norman invasions, there's no such thing as a "native Briton", despite the fact that the Normans in particular left essentially no genetic footprint (outside the aristocracy), which leaves approximately 1500 years for a coherent ethnicity to form. Ethnic groups far younger than that are declared native and worthy of protection.

Aaaaand here i go again with my usual rant about cheddar man - a skeleton dug uk from cheddar gorge who when genetically tested was found to be an exact match at the loci tested for a chap living literally a mile or so from the dig site. The facial reconstruction even looked like him. Or it did until it got retconned into being black. Because what cheddar man shows is that there has been a population continuously here since the I e melted. And that simply won’t do!
And yes, the Sami have been where they are less than 1500 years or so haven’t they? They get protection

She's a particularly unsubtle individual.

The current state of the uk is making me sympathise with Jews. Her stance publicly as an nhs doctor is unacceptable. Have whatever views you like on your spare time but if you’re working in a profession where you need to be neutral and care equally (care, lol, I mean treat) for all citizens, then to have a symbol you’re wearing wishing death on some of them is not acceptable. Imagine taking your kid to emergency or an appointment and the doctor is wearing a necklace celebrating a massacre of your lot. It puts professional impartiality out the window.
And they feel like this about us too.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The current state of the uk is making me sympathise with Jews. Her stance publicly as an nhs doctor is unacceptable. Have whatever views you like on your spare time but if you’re working in a profession where you need to be neutral and care equally (care, lol, I mean treat) for all citizens, then to have a symbol you’re wearing wishing death on some of them is not acceptable. Imagine taking your kid to emergency or an appointment and the doctor is wearing a necklace celebrating a massacre of your lot. It puts professional impartiality out the window.
And they feel like this about us too.

Her social media stuff is absolutely repellent too, amongst it was her talking about how the female hostages would be falling in love with their captors due to it being the first time they met any real men. You know, rapists and child murderers, the sort of real men she personally admires and no doubt get her engine going.

When I first saw the article I assumed it would be one more person making edgy but just barely defensible remarks, that a lot of of them are and should not be given the leeway they are. Most of hers are even close to that and that she was not sacked after the first investigation is repellent. The second result in merely a suspension for slightly over a year is even worse though I suppose the cowards in the NHS are hoping she'll rack up her behaviour in that time to the point the police will act and they won't have to dismiss her for anything but what she's arrested for.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

Aaaaand here i go again with my usual rant about cheddar man - a skeleton dug uk from cheddar gorge who when genetically tested was found to be an exact match at the loci tested for a chap living literally a mile or so from the dig site. The facial reconstruction even looked like him. Or it did until it got retconned into being black. Because what cheddar man shows is that there has been a population continuously here since the I e melted. And that simply won’t do!
And yes, the Sami have been where they are less than 1500 years or so haven’t they? They get protection

Hell, the Maori had only been on New Zealand for a generation or two and had only just finished exterminating and cannibalising the original native population when the Dutch arrived, yet somehow they're poor innocent indigenous people and we're filthy colonisers?

 

[Otterly]

I suppose the cowards in the NHS are hoping she'll rack up her behaviour in that time to the point the police will act and they won't have to dismiss her for anything but what she's arrested for.

It’ll be a bit late when some Jewish kid dies because she didn’t put them in the right place in the queue. She’ll get away with it too if it’s administrative neglect
. I think most white Brits don’t get the level of hatred that other cultures have for people. I first saw this a few years back at work, overhearing groups of Muslim colleagues make jokes. Now I’m not going to report someone for a joke but it makes you think - if I’d said something a tenth as bad about anyone brown, or a man had made a joke as tenth as bad about women, they’d be up for disciplinary.
We all get lectured on hate, but it only seems to go one way. The Jewish population here is pretty small, and I think a lot of people kind of ignore it and chalk it up to Muslims/jews hating each other but they don’t seem to realise that they feel like this about you too.
When enough of the state infrastructure is infiltrated by hostile groups, they take over, and they discriminate hard. In healthcare, that will kill people. She needs disbarring.

 

[Crunkle]

It's probably been said in this thread earlier but Rachel Reeves is taking Starmer down with her. I watched the full interview with her and Trevor Phillips yesterday and she intentionally kept mentioning "Keir" and "we". Rachel's getting her payback for Sobgate.



The choices the government have now are just essentially:
A) Let this damaging story run on for weeks, claim the OBR Hughes scalp and pray it goes away, conveniently forgetting that businesses, savers and anyone with a bit of money hates them because they made investment and purchasing decisions based on these lies they put out for months. Further drops in the poll and a likely reversal of the budget since it's illegitimate, Starmer goes in May.

B) Sacks the Chancellor (who hates his guts and either wants revenge or is so emotionally fraught that she doesn't understand what she's doing to him), cabinet reshuffle goes poorly, Starmer goes too, new PM going into the May elections whilst also ramping up demands for a general election across the country.

The Cabinet briefing against the PM is the sort of thing the Tories started doing after a decade in power. One thing is pretty clear, Labour will not be in power like this ever again if they managed to do this in around about 18 months. Books will be written about how poor this government was.

It's over for them, just a matter of if this government falls this year or next year. You cannot credibly run a country when you're polling at 10% - 15% nationally, people will actually start trying to harm/kill politicians if we get to that point. Jo Cox and David Amess's murders all occurred within the past decade.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

We all get lectured on hate, but it only seems to go one way. The Jewish population here is pretty small, and I think a lot of people kind of ignore it and chalk it up to Muslims/jews hating each other but they don’t seem to realise that they feel like this about you too.
When enough of the state infrastructure is infiltrated by hostile groups, they take over, and they discriminate hard. In healthcare, that will kill people. She needs disbarring.

I would suspect it is happening already, just not at a large enough scale to be observed.

 

[NeverCopeAgain]

Imagine being absolutely spineless, so that you get rattled so easily by rat-face Rory. This is an absolutely hilarious interview, purely for entertainment. It starts with a sob story about him being a gay jew in Manchester, being bullied into a private school (scholarship), then goes into actual importances about trade, Trump, economy, which is the best part because he doesn't seem to know the difference between deficit and debt.