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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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BongoMongo said:
I'm not jabbed for coof at all,and I had a stinker of a cold recently. That was my fault thought, I went out in cold with wet hair. And it was by no means the flu, it was a cold. I could still get up and about, and a week later I was back to myself again.

Loads of vaxx maxxed getting struck down though, really badly with it. And I know people who are getting the flu jab who are getting sick from that in and of itself.
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I didn't get the vaxx either, purely out of spite. I got covid twice, once earlier this year and the first time right after beating Elden ring at the height of the pandemic. It was more annoying than painful.
 
Duane Dibbley said:
A lot of people - mainly forrinurs, are coughing their lungs up. Of course, with them being savage, third world, mud people, they have no idea how to cover their mouths and are just coughing everywhere. I wonder why germs spread so quickly.
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Crazy how they can close the border down and deny entry to anyone without the coof jab but TB? come right on in saarrr, no quarantine for you. If we're going to do bio-security why the fuck are we letting in the plagues? I didn't get the jab (I remember thalidomide's ''safety'' lies and the opiod crisis) and maybe it's hypocritical but we cannot be letting people into the country with drug resistant TB, measles, poxes, or any other 'slate wiper' diseases jfc.
Some African dude pepper sprayed people in the carpark at Heathrow - doesn't seem to be terrorism just a chimpout over parking I bet
 
I really don't know why people are so worried about government overreach regarding spying. The NHS is our biggest spend by a large distance and that can't keep records straight about a person who has lived in the same fucking city all their life. If the UK Government/Civil Service were actually competent then it'd be terrifying but the grim reality is that it's about keeping up the illusion of government overreach to push people into obeying the law in their own house, just like how 90% of CCTV cameras don't work but they stop people on the verge of criminality from doing things in public.

It's actually hilarious how much of the UK revolves around the high trust society that doesn't apply to a subsection of people. Like how whenever some Islamist tries to knife someone and the counter terrorism team say that "He was known to us", even if he wasn't because you can't break the illusion that the government knows everything.

That's not to say that we should be getting rid of our VPNs and posting under our real names, the bare minimum of Opsec is enough to stop some underfunded government body from investigating you for drawing a very crude picture of Kier Starmer wearing a hijab.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Crazy how they can close the border down and deny entry to anyone without the coof jab but TB? come right on in saarrr, no quarantine for you. If we're going to do bio-security why the fuck are we letting in the plagues? I didn't get the jab (I remember thalidomide's ''safety'' lies and the opiod crisis) and maybe it's hypocritical but we cannot be letting people into the country with drug resistant TB, measles, poxes, or any other 'slate wiper' diseases jfc.
Some African dude pepper sprayed people in the carpark at Heathrow - doesn't seem to be terrorism just a chimpout over parking I bet
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I was tangentially involved with a case where a 19 year old woman contracted TB from Africans in a homeless shelter. She died in agony as it was caught too late for treatment. Her GP dismissed her chronic cough. If he had ordered a chest xray at an appropriate time she would have lived, albeit hospitalised for a long time.
Diseases are rife throughout shelters due to these migrants, yet you will never see it talked about.
 
Jimmy Dean Bowl said:
I was tangentially involved with a case where a 19 year old woman contracted TB from Africans in a homeless shelter. She died in agony as it was caught too late for treatment. Her GP dismissed her chronic cough. If he had ordered a chest xray at an appropriate time she would have lived, albeit hospitalised for a long time.
Diseases are rife throughout shelters due to these migrants, yet you will never see it talked about.
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TB is now rife in Birmingham, according to reports, and it's due to migrants being sent there and not screened for illnesses.

I've already mentioned the potential death stew brewing there with Union members refusing to take rubbish bags away - oh well, total bio-weapon death it is then.

Some news from you know where:

* Five people rushed to hospital as armed police swoop to arrest man following 'pepper spray' attack

* Vandals target iconic Grade-II listed Kursaal building in Southend as pressure grows to protect seaside site

* Nigel Farage announces surprise Scotland defection ahead of Holyrood elections (we're breaking through north of the border...)

* Protesters arrested after drenching Tower of London's Crown Jewels display with food

* Holidaymakers issued police warning after crackdown on rogue parking firms abandoning cars in muddy fields near Bristol airport

* National Library apologises after anti-woke gender-critical book ban

* Keir Starmer refuses to rule out rejoining EU as PM prepares for crunch talks

* 'Frustrated' Tony Blair plotting major policy overhaul in bid to drag Labour back on track

* Reform pulls off huge by-election win but rival snatches triple victory as Labour flounders

* Watch moment Nigel Farage spells out four-letter word that will lead to Reform's success in Scotland

* Sadiq Khan’s office splurges eye-watering £250k of taxpayers’ cash on external staff diversity training

* David Lammy accused of distorting rape case data in 'cynical' attempt to justify jury trial reforms
 
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I really don't know why people are so worried about government overreach regarding spying. The NHS is our biggest spend by a large distance and that can't keep records straight about a person who has lived in the same fucking city all their life. If the UK Government/Civil Service were actually competent then it'd be terrifying but the grim reality is that it's about keeping up the illusion of government overreach to push people into obeying the law in their own house, just like how 90% of CCTV cameras don't work but they stop people on the verge of criminality from doing things in public.

It's actually hilarious how much of the UK revolves around the high trust society that doesn't apply to a subsection of people. Like how whenever some Islamist tries to knife someone and the counter terrorism team say that "He was known to us", even if he wasn't because you can't break the illusion that the government knows everything.

That's not to say that we should be getting rid of our VPNs and posting under our real names, the bare minimum of Opsec is enough to stop some underfunded government body from investigating you for drawing a very crude picture of Kier Starmer wearing a hijab.
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Personally I think assuming anyone who has the potential capability of surveilling me is stupid, is very dangerous.

As you allude to, at the bare minimum I intend to make myself as difficult as possible to monitor. Not because I have anything to hide other than disagreeing with the current government's views on virtually everything, but just because I believe in the Japanese proverb "the nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered". Plus I really don't like other people sticking their noses in my business and telling me what to do.

My immediate question would be, if these government agencies are run by such idiots, how come they have the potential power to surveil us ? I would have thought the vast majority of the public are against it, but acquiesce to it because it's easier and so long as the bread and circuses continue they are distracted. Until the bread and circuses stop and by then it will probably be too late to do anything about it. But either way, if they are so stupid and incapable, they have still imposed their will on us.

I increasingly see shades of our technocrat, authoritarian Prime Minister in the direction the country is going. Anyone who has read any Orwell or Kaczynski will find this horrifying. We have been warned, but unfortunately I genuinely believe that the vast majority of the public are ignorant of the direction of travel and sleepwalking into totalitarianism. The interference of the State in our daily lives is way too much and increasing, but symptomatic of a socialist government's ideology of centrally planning everything.
 
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EddyRooney said:
As you allude to, at the bare minimum I intend to make myself as difficult as possible to monitor. Not because I have anything to hide other than disagreeing with the current government's views on virtually everything, but just because I believe that in the Japanese proverb "the nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered". Plus I really don't like other people sticking their noses in my business and telling me what to do.
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This has reminded me of some old Twitter drama.

Some professional left-wing grifter at a paedophilia enablement gay charity was demanding that the NHS create a list of all gay people in the UK so they could get special treatment correctly identify any special health needs. Some other gay, one of the "I just want to be a normal human and left alone" variety, pointed out that this was a pretty silly idea as, whilst it is safe with our current government, if shit goes south that is a list in the hands of the state that lets them know where to send the death squads first.

Now you'd think that is a sensible critique, but the gay grifter then (if I remember correctly) tried to do the whole "LET'S SEE WHAT YOUR EMPLOYER THINKS ABOUT THIS" and the drama focused on what a retarded overreach it was. I wish I could remember the names in this but it was years ago and Twitter is just brain rot for people too narcissistic for TikTok for me to even pretend to look it up.
 
I've gone to find the coke advert that was aired during sky sports match yesterday but it isn't on Youtube. The only one they have is the raccoon AI slop one.
 
April Ryan said:
I think more people are pissed at the fact it is 100% AI generated, so that they haven't even noticed what's actually in it.
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I suppose AI is an easy way to get around the issue of Muslim "actors" celebrating Christmas.

Personally I find this a whole lot more concerning.......


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Let's make a throne of white people to make our brown overlord comfortable. You can add Currys to my list of companies that will never see a penny of my money ever again.
 
It's an interesting time for advertising, if you've spent the past 20 years preaching elaborate diversity quotas do you see the coming tide and cool it a bit or do you double down and hope the nasty evil racists get crushed and you are seen as the group that defied fascism and held the line for chummy ethnic diversity.

I'll say this though, the funniest advert I ever watched in terms of accidentally fucking up was that Cadbury's Christmas one a few years back. The paki shopkeeeper sees that the little white girl doesn't have any money so gives her a chocolate bar as a treat. Very interesting parallels to the paki shops that give free vapes to 13 year old girls so they can start the grooming pipeline.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
It's an interesting time for advertising, if you've spent the past 20 years preaching elaborate diversity quotas do you see the coming tide and cool it a bit or do you double down and hope the nasty evil racists get crushed and you are seen as the group that defied fascism and held the line for chummy ethnic diversity.

I'll say this though, the funniest advert I ever watched in terms of accidentally fucking up was that Cadbury's Christmas one a few years back. The paki shopkeeeper sees that the little white girl doesn't have any money so gives her a chocolate bar as a treat. Very interesting parallels to the paki shops that give free vapes to 13 year old girls so they can start the grooming pipeline.
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The one which annoys me is the Wonderbly ad:

'Your kids can be part of their own story.'

Except it costs a lot of money (more than Aunt Julia's socks) for these kids own books to be made.

I had books as a child, never ever wanted one about me.

Narcissism at Christmas eh?
 
Duane Dibbley said:
If anyone wants to know why Reeves is still in a job, look into the Fabian Society,
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With age there's a given prestige and idea of control, but the Fabien society fights for sway with the more contemporary Labour Together group. Labour's brief flirtation with cutting costs and adopting anti-immigration rhetoric was an influence from them supposedly. Tony Blair's Institute for Global Change also operates openly and Blair has close ties with Starmer supposedly. The Fabiens are just one fish in a pond of many other fishes, all hoping to take their own bite of MPs out of the Labour party. You've got:
Institute for Public Policy Research
New Economics Foundation
Resolution Foundation
Compass
Socialist Health Association
SERA
That's just to name a few. You can also count Unions. The Fabians pull in less than a million a year in revenue and joining them on-paper is meant to be a public affirmation of your loyalty to socialist principles but besides age they've got nothing else going for them.

If one group held considerable sway, things would appear on the surface a lot more organised and unified than they actually are. What we have now is the result of too many competing interests pushing for different causes.

A similar schism provoked in the Conservative party was the result of competing interest groups, which we saw in real time and very publicly over Brexit and then Liz Truss.
Policy Exchange
European Research Group
Conservative Way Forward
Conservative Policy Forum
Centre for Social Justice (these is the Tories version of Labour Together which just a think tank telling the Tories they should be a bit more left-wing on things)
Adam Smith Institute
Bright Blue
Bow Group (This is technically the Conservative's version of the Fabian society, it's just 50 years younger. 74 years to the Fabian's 141)
Just to name a few.

MPs will probably listen to all the shit these groups put out like how sweats will research viable metas for their favourite vidya.

How all these groups propose shit and then the PM decides what to do, I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with the Number 10 Policy Unit. It appears to act as a way to congregate all the shit these groups propose with the occupying advisor then helping the PM to decide a course of action. The strength of this position probably depends on how malleable the Prime Minister is, since a feckless PM will probably just do as their told.

Boris Johnson's policy unit advisor was an actual Pakistani communist by the name Munira Mirza, which might help to clarify things lmao.
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She resigned over Boris saying Starmer defended Saville.
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Under Sunak we got Eleanor Shawcross, who has previously worked for Bill Gates foundation (Neoliberal) and the Blavatnik School of Government (Neoliberal) - that latter is intriguing given their sole purpose appears to be the education of "leaders" and is apparently responsible for one of parliament's youngest MPs, Keir Mather.
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So yeah, I don't think the Fabians really have all that much sway but then again there might not be any secretive strings behind government, it's an open position you can just buy your way into without any need to hold a seat in parliament and nobody gives a real shit.
 
RE: That currys advert lol.. What the fuck is going on?

I've been looking for that cola advert for longer than I dare admit. I know what I saw and it was during the half-time for a prem game yesterday on sky sports (i was watching a dodgy stream).
But every search for Coca-cola, even on their website and youtube channel only comes up with the AI slop. Could the advert I saw generated so much backlash that they threw out a back-up AI advert to deflect heat?

I'm pissed off that I can't find it.
 
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