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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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I've found the Government's strategy with dealing with the lie story: obfuscate like they did with the China spying story.

Darren Jones (used to be Reeves' right hand man in No. 11) was on telly this morning saying how the Tories actually left them a £10b surplus. This has to be a lie, right? There's no way they were just elected on a massive majority and immediately trotted out a £32b lie on the same week.



Real end days stuff here, that story to me, is even bigger than the budget lies. Insane.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
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.
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There’s growing Islamist control within the NHS. It sounds bonkers to say out loud but you import the third world you get the third world.
 
More than half of the time I use the NHS, the person can't speak English properly and can't understand me, or do their job.
Why even hire people who can't do their job?
It's gone to shit
 
2025 version

As soon as you're born, daddy's struck by the fear,
What if the movies make you turn queer?
What if there's no way to get out of here?

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

The school's full of kids from a faraway land,
If you feel bad for being white, please raise your hand,
Lunch is halal and the Bible's been banned,

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Now your mother's in jail for sending a tweet,
Outing the pedo at the end of the street,
Show bobs and vagene to Uncle Pajeet,

A working class hero is something to be...
 
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Received an email from 'Watershed' today (water grifting 'charidee') which said the following:

Hello everyone,

Could England run out of water? “People would be shocked if they knew just how close we’ve come to Day Zero,” a former Environment Agency officer told me some time ago.

Day Zero, sometimes known as the Jaws of Death by those numb to melodrama, is the time when a city or country runs out of drinking water. When the taps run dry and the standpipes or tankers are deployed. To be fair, it is quite a dramatic scenario.

To many on this damp little island that regularly floods, the idea’s preposterous. But it’s a very real threat in parts of the UK and Europe. The Environment Agency for England has warned of widespread drought next year unless there’s lots of rain over the winter and so far, it’s not looking good.

I wanted to understand what’s happening to freshwater supplies across the UK and the wider continent, to our rivers, lakes and groundwater. Groundwater (aquifers) are generally thought to be more resilient to climate change but I wanted to know how they were holding up.

Fortunately NASA’s GRACE satellites have been orbiting the Earth for decades, and by observing changes in the gravity field, can estimate changes in the amount of water stored in a region. And more fortunately, I know some clever people who can make sense of that data.
Working with Professor Mohammad Shamsuduhha and postdoctoral researcher Arifin, we could see stark drying and wetting trends across the UK and the continent and mapped them, revealing huge regions with shrinking water resources while others in the north look to be getting wetter, both outcomes having far reaching consequences for people, agriculture, wildlife and wider industry.

The map and story was published in the Guardian at the weekend:


I followed this up with a second story revealing that tensions are rising between the government, regulators and the water industry as the Environment Agency warns of a possible nationwide drought next year. Each blames the other for not factoring increasing volumes of water needed for industrial growth, including clean energy needed to hit carbon emissions reduction targets. The omission could lead to water shortages in some regions, according to new analysis.


My previous stories have revealed that it’s not clear that anyone in government or elsewhere has a handle on how much water is being taken from the environment at any one time. There are systems in place but they are patchy and disjointed and often rely on self reporting.

I’ve also found that the Environment Agency, the regulator responsible for overseeing water taken directly from rivers and groundwater, rarely checks up on users to make sure they aren’t taking more than their licensed amount, according to whistleblowers. When you add that to the fact that the water sector loses eye-watering amounts from its creaking systems every day, the picture starts to look pretty shambolic.






Today there are flood warnings in some parts of the UK while others remain water stressed. It’s clear we need to be managing water better and it’s critical that at the very minimum we need to know who’s using what.

Watershed is a non-profit organisation. If you value this kind of work, please consider donating so we can do more of it: https://watershedinvestigations.com/support-us/

Best wishes,

Rachel

rachel.salvidge@watershedinvestigations.com


As it's currently chucking it down here in Wales, the idea of 'water shortages' is currently laughable.

Whilst OFWAT and the EA etc. are totally useless, to give her credit, Rachel is only giving one side of the argument - hers. The counter argument could well be that in years to come we'll actually have too much water, and these people will change their minds whichever way the wind blows.
 
God I absolutely despise trannies. There's no good ones. And the faggots are the gateway to all of this (we just want to live in peace/ love who we want/ completely tear apart the definition of marriage/ parade through the streets in fetish gear and if you opposed any of it you're a BIGOT!!!) .


Accepting the faggots started all of this and it was a grave mistake.
 
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As it's currently chucking it down here in Wales, the idea of 'water shortages' is currently laughable.
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The people writing these stories have stupidly short memories. I remember having stand-pipes, during a particularly hot summer in 1984. The whole north, especially the north west, was dried out completely, with all the reservoirs empty. Don't see much hand-wringing about it in the press though; it wasn't in landan or the home counties, so it didn't matter. I learned then what we all know now: you cannot hate the journalist enough.

What this screed doesn't mention is that we've not built any new reservoirs since the 90s, based on a policy of use reduction rather than infrastructure expansion, while the population has increased by some tens of millions. That's why we're facing shortages.
 
MP Tulip Siddiq has been given a two-year prison sentence in Bangladesh after a corruption trial was held in her absence.
I never want to hear any fucking bleating about foreign interference or muh ruskies from the Government or media ever again, when we have Ministers and public servants who aren't fully British and have family in power in other countries or are running for positions in those countries (like those Tower Hamlets councillors). How the fuck is this allowed or even logical to allow non natives to be in governmental positions?
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
MP Tulip Siddiq has been given a two-year prison sentence in Bangladesh after a corruption trial was held in her absence.
I never want to hear any fucking bleating about foreign interference or muh ruskies from the Government or media ever again, when we have Ministers and public servants who aren't fully British and have family in power in other countries or are running for positions in those countries (like those Tower Hamlets councillors). How the fuck is this allowed or even logical to allow non natives to be in governmental positions?
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Sadly, the UK does not have an extradition treaty with Bangladesh, but I hope that somehow she is forced to return home and is sent down upon arrival.
 
OBR internal investigation is out into the budget leak. It's a doozy:

  • The leak happened because of two configuration errors in the OBR’s website setup
  • A WordPress plug-in (Download Monitor) created a public, guessable link to the PDF
  • That plug-in bypassed WordPress’s “hidden until publication” protection, so the file wasn’t actually hidden
  • The server wasn’t set up to block direct access to file directories, which made the problem worse
  • The URL structure for EFO documents was predictable, so people could guess the November link by changing the month in the March link
  • Several users were already trying the guessed URL before the file was uploaded
  • Once the PDF was uploaded around 11:30am, those attempts immediately started working
  • Between 11:35 and 12:07, the file was accessed 43 times by 32 different IP addresses
  • Reuters published Budget details at 11:41am
  • Staff first learned of the leak at 11:43am and tried to investigate
  • Treasury alerted the OBR to the exact leak URL at 11:52am
  • Staff and the web developer tried to pull the file and even take the whole site offline from 11:53am, but the website was overloaded so they couldn't
  • The PDF was renamed at 12:07pm and finally removed at 12:08pm
  • Someone accessed the March 2025 EFO early too, which confirms the issue was “pre-existing”
  • That earlier access appears harmless but shows the system had been flawed for months
  • The OBR runs its website outside the gov.uk system, using a WordPress setup meant for a small organisations
  • The whole publication process depended heavily on one external web developer, creating a single point of failure
  • Internal focus had been on protecting Treasury–OBR communications, not website publication security
  • No one had verified that the pre-publication protections actually worked
  • The setup wasn’t robust enough for a large, market-sensitive document like the EFO
  • They recommend a full forensic audit of past EFOs
  • They also say future EFO releases should be moved off the current OBR website onto a more secure Government platform
Not only was it an existing issue that leaked the 2025 budget in advance that none of the media picked up on, they were probably using a fucking jeet contractor to make public market-sensitive documents that could crash our entire economy.

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they were probably using a fucking jeet contractor to make public market-sensitive documents that could crash our entire economy.
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I am so excited for Digital ID and the public S3 bucket that will come along with it.
 
the rat said:
I am so excited for Digital ID and the public S3 bucket that will come along with it.
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It's so strange for a government to push Digital ID and at the same time try to restrict VPN usage and beg to be able to break encryption.

If this has any chance of getting any sane person onboard, they'd have to fully encrypt all of the data. But we'd be using third world contractors who would sell the entire UK database and encryption keys for £500. You'd live like a king in the Philippines for that for a year.
 
Crunkle said:
It's so strange for a government to push Digital ID and at the same time try to restrict VPN usage and beg to be able to break encryption.

If this has any chance of getting any sane person onboard, they'd have to fully encrypt all of the data. But we'd be using third world contractors who would sell the entire UK database and encryption keys for £500. You'd live like a king in the Philippines for that for a year.
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Don't worry. I'm sure they can figure out PHP's md5 function.
 
One thing about this "£10bn surplus" from this morning that surprised me a bit: why didn't the Tories know the state they left the economy in when they lost the election? Surely someone high up in the party would keep some evidence or copy of how they left the books? It seems like this has taken them completely by surprise too.

We know they know when they leave office because of the infamous "I'm afraid there is no money." note.

⚠️ EDIT: Richard Hughes has resigned as Head of the OBR. Quite convenient as it likely means he won't have to show up in front of the select committee tomorrow (I hope he does).

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Crunkle said:
One thing about this "£10bn surplus" from this morning that surprised me a bit: why didn't the Tories know the state they left the economy in when they lost the election? Surely someone high up in the party would keep some evidence or copy of how they left the books? It seems like this has taken them completely by surprise too.

We know they know when they leave office because of the infamous "I'm afraid there is no money." note.

⚠️ EDIT: Richard Hughes has resigned as Head of the OBR. Quite convenient as it likely means he won't have to show up in front of the select committee tomorrow (I hope he does).
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Because they are retards who operate on Africa Time now?
 
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