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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:
Oh god working with niggers is the worst.

I once had one look me on the eyes and swear he'd cleaned a fridge out. Checked it and it was filthy.

They don't have any work ethic, and are filthy beasts.

Niggers are incompatible with life. Send them back. There's no fucking good ones.
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It doesn't matter that you can and do go check the fridge, to discover that the nigger lied to you. The point is, by lying to you, the nigger gets you off his back. Even if it's just for a few moments. To the nigger, mission accomplished. When you proceed to point out the nigger was being a lying, lazy nigger, and you're upset about it, you're an even bigger asshole for embarrassing the nigger, thus disrespecting him, than you were for telling the nigger to do something in the first place
 
Chagos Islanders defy Starmer by forming government in exile: Families evicted from islands elect ‘first minister’ in the hope of blocking their homeland’s surrender
Chagossians have set up a government in exile in a bid to prevent Sir Keir Starmer handing over their homeland to Mauritius.
Families evicted from the Chagos Islands between 1967 and 1973 have elected a “first minister”, saying they want to remain British citizens and subjects of the King.
They hope their declaration will persuade the House of Lords to block the Prime Minister’s plans to surrender the strategically important Indian Ocean islands.
In an inaugural speech, Misley Mandarin, the islanders’ new first minister, said: “Let the world know: we remain loyal subjects of His Majesty.
"We remain committed partners to the United Kingdom and the United States. Tonight, the Chagossian voice becomes one voice. Tonight, our story begins anew.
“We are still here. We are still Chagossian. And tonight — we rise. God Save the King.”
The Chagos Islands have been administered by Britain since 1814. Harold Wilson, the former prime minister, gave the main atoll, Diego Garcia, to the United States to construct a major military base.
The original inhabitants were forcibly evicted and many ended up in the UK.
Sir Keir signed the Chagos Islands treaty in May, giving up British sovereignty over the islands and paying Mauritius £30bn over 99 years. This is despite the fact that Mauritius has never ruled the islands.
The handover will go ahead in February unless it is blocked by the House of Lords.

Mr Mandarin said the Chagossians should possess the same right to self-determination as other overseas territories. He said the Chagossians wanted to return to their islands, and wanted to remain British citizens under British sovereignty.
And he said they want to protect Diego Garcia and the Western security architecture that depends on it.
“Tonight, in the presence of our elders, our mothers, our youth, and our unborn generations, we declare the formation of the Chagossian government-in-exile,” he said.

“Not in rebellion. Not in anger. But as a statement of existence, that we endure and that we refuse to be erased by distance or time as a proud, small, determined citizen nation, as some have planned we should on 1 February 2026.”
The implementation of the treaty was delayed last month after the threat of defeat in the Lords.
Ministers were forced to pause legislation to ratify the treaty after a Conservative peer submitted an amendment to make the Government consult the Chagossians before going ahead.
The election for the new first minister was organised by the Great British Political Action Committee, which is supporting the Chagossians’ call for self-determination.
They asked Chagossians in the UK whether they should form a government in exile to represent their interests, and appoint an interim first minister to speak for them.
Around 1,300 Chagossians responded, and overwhelmingly backed the creation of a new government and the election of Mr Mandarin as interim first minister. There were no other candidates. The process was independently overseen by polling firm Whitestone Insight.

The government in exile will now put together a charter and a representative council.
The Chagossians were removed from Diego Garcia and the other islands between 1968 and 1973, and relocated to Britain.
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Trump should recognize their government, take over the Chagos islands for them, and sign a treaty with them giving the US the base there for another 500 years in return for a pile of money. Part of the treaty is the US takes upon itself the obligation to force the UK to pay Mauritius anyway because that would be funny
 
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Little known fact but the first widespread gun control measures came into effect in the 1960's. You know the 1960's when the collective consensus was the USSR could storm West Berlin and land on our shores at any moment, yes that 1960's.
If there's one thing that makes sense when under the constant threat of war is to disarm the populace.
 
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The idea that Americans are more free than the brits is laughable. Even more laughable is the idea that americans, with their freedoms, would turn into militias over-night and gun down the government because they took their memes.

One day, the yank will realise that his guns are his pacifier; something to cuddle to assure themselves they still have freedom because they still have guns, all the while their freedom is stripped piece by piece.
 
Duane Dibbley said:
The idea that Americans are more free than the brits is laughable. Even more laughable is the idea that americans, with their freedoms, would turn into militias over-night and gun down the government because they took their memes.

One day, the yank will realise that his guns are his pacifier; something to cuddle to assure themselves they still have freedom because they still have guns, all the while their freedom is stripped piece by piece.
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Americans have rights baked into their Constitution. They may not get translated into reality (obvious example: does @Joseph Stalin, being a resident of California, have the right to keep and bear arms?) but at least the principle is there.

Perhaps a more obvious example is the existence of Kiwifarms, under the 1st amendment. If dear feeder tried to ooperate this site from within the EU he'd already be in prison.

There's plenty of shit to criticize the US for, but (eagle screeches*) freedom isn't one of them.

*When you hear an eagle screeching in the movies, that's a red-tailed hawk. Bald eagles actually sound like retarded chickens.
 
Vesperus said:
There's plenty of shit to criticize the US for, but (eagle screeches*) freedom isn't one of them.
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If you believe an American go say the same things as we can't on social media and face no backlash, then I don't believe you have been paying attention.

Our government does the dirty work for the government, in america, they out-source it to companies.

I would go one further and say their suppression of information harmful to the government and corporations is extreme. Whereas our government get a good laugh out of making one another look like twats.
 
A family member got a leaflet through from the governmental overlords, promoting their ‘motability’ scheme (they take half the disability benefit, the disabled person gets a car). The scheme itself is of no interest, but of the three groups of people pictured, two of the groups were some shade of brown.

Remind me, what percentage of people in the U.K. are white? Why is advertising showing a majority of brown people rather than white, when white people are by far the majority in the country?
 
Duane Dibbley said:
If you believe an American go say the same things as we can't on social media and face no backlash, then I don't believe you have been paying attention.

Our government does the dirty work for the government, in america, they out-source it to companies.

I would go one further and say their suppression of information harmful to the government and corporations is extreme. Whereas our government get a good laugh out of making one another look like twats.
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Have you not been keeping up with the Ofcom shit in the slightest? Everyone else would have gotten the fucking hint by now, even the Chinese, but the English somehow think they can make the USA take things off the Internet for them by simply screeching at us and threatening us with fines they have no ability to make us pay.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Left-wing candidate beats Starmer ally to lead UK's biggest union

tl;dr UNISON elected a corbynite leader, ousting a starmerite in the process, who has personal beef with Starmer after being expelled from the party for supporting Socialist Appeal. Wouldn't surprise me if we get a general strike next year.
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There was only two options on the ballot, and only ~7.5% bothered to vote.
I'm pretty sure a pot of yoghurt could have won, if that had been an option.
 
Snekposter said:
Have you not been keeping up with the Ofcom shit in the slightest? Everyone else would have gotten the fucking hint by now, even the Chinese, but the English somehow think they can make the USA take things off the Internet for them by simply screeching at us and threatening us with fines they have no ability to make us pay.
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I don' think Ofcom and the government do. A virus doesn't "think' it can infect a thing. It just tries to regardless. You give the government too much credit, they really aren't people in the same way you or I are.
 
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