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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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Syria bombings archive, joint UK-France strike on some underground bunker.

Keir: 'I'll still be PM by 2027' no civil war to see here folks move along...
Sir Keir Starmer has dismissed concerns about his leadership and said he will still be prime minister this time next year.

In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said he believes forthcoming elections in Scotland, Wales and England in May are not a "referendum" on his government.

His comments come after a difficult 2025 for Sir Keir, who has been battling slowing economic growth, poor poll ratings and speculation he could face a leadership challenge.

In his recent New Year's Day message, the PM promised to "defeat the decline and division offered by others" and insisted 2026 would see people feel "positive change" in their lives.
Speaking to the BBC, Sir Keir said: "I was elected in 2024 with a five-year mandate to change the country, and that's what I intend to do, to be faithful to that mandate.

"And I will be judged, and I know I'll be judged, when we get to the next election, on whether I've delivered on the key things that matter most to people."

Parliament returns from the Christmas recess on Monday and the prime minister is set to hold his first Cabinet meeting of 2026 the following day.

He is expected to tell ministers: "I know families across the country are still worried about the cost of living.

"There will be no let-up in our fight to make life better for them."
In his interview with the BBC, the prime minister vowed to stand firm in his leadership.

"Under the last government, we saw constant chopping and changing of leadership, of teams, it caused utter chaos, utter chaos, and it's amongst the reasons that the Tories were booted out so effectively at the last election," Sir Keir said.

"Nobody wants to go back to that. It's not in our national interest.

"We know from that evidence what happens if you go down that chaotic path, and I'm not going to take us back to that kind of chaos.

"I will be sitting in this seat by 2027 and if this long-form interview works, we can try it again in January of next year as well."

Sir Keir's comments come just over five months before elections to the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd, the Scottish Parliament and to many local authorities in England on 7 May.

Each will have potentially huge consequences as Labour is currently in power in the Senedd and runs many of the urban councils in England where local elections are being held.
In the lead-up to the Christmas period, the government faced a succession of embarrassing episodes, including briefings about a plot to take over the leadership by Health Secretary Wes Streeting at the start of November.

At the time, Streeting said suggestions from Sir Keir's allies that he was seeking to challenge the leadership were "self-defeating nonsense".

That episode was quickly followed by a perceived U-turn ahead of the Budget on whether to raise rates of income tax, and then the unprecedented premature publication of the Office for Budget for Responsibility's (OBR) response to Rachel Reeves' Budget before she had announced it in the Commons.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Sir Keir "expects gratitude" when "we know it's his decisions that have made the cost of living worse".

"Labour have no plan to fix Britain and working families are paying the price," she said.
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The Venezuelan war threads are a shitshow of spergposting, so fuck posting there. Hearing a lot about US aircraft landing here. Could Iran be the next? We've discussed Keir going for war with Russia as a way to secure his position, could he be pivoting to striking against Iran or is that too risky with the Muslim electorate?
ETA: Spectator Index confirming 10 C-17s landing in RAF Mildenhall and Fairford.
 
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A-Logato said:
Can we just destroy every union at this point? Not only would it make work more tolerable but it would likely crash the economy of Manchester.
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I keep telling people that if you are in a union you are actively funding all the lefty nonsense destroying the country.

There’s nothing worse than a cunt who complains about DEI but pays for union dues because they might use access to a financial adviser (which most large employers already provide) as some unspecified date in the future.

Heinrich Maneuver said:
Keir: 'I'll still be PM by 2027' no civil war to see here folks move along...
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When a football manager has an announcement that he has the full support of the board his time is short. When the manager is the only person announcing his safety then he already has one foot out the door.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Perhaps so, but it feels incredible to dunk on the Martin Lewis Scrooge types who earn 90k+ a year and never turn the thermostat so they can pretend to be drenched on poverty.
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The “I consider myself a socialist” types who live in a £1m house just so they are in a catchment area that has a comprehensive school that competes in the rankings with elite private schools.

Christ, I fucking hate them.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Perhaps so, but it feels incredible to dunk on the Martin Lewis Scrooge types who earn 90k+ a year and never turn the thermostat so they can pretend to be drenched on poverty.
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These are the same people who complain about British houses having damp problems. If you don't keep your house warm, and also don't air out your house (because you're trying to keep the remaining warmth in) then you get damp and mould. I don't keep it subtropical in here and am more than happy to add an extra layer, but the number of people who seem to complain about our terrible damp housing when they just don't understand how to live in our housing is ludicrous.
Ironically this wasn't historically so much of an issue before central heating and double glazing, because the houses back then were freezing and drafty, and you'd just heat rooms with fires, so that also kept mould at bay. It's the middle ground of a house that's unventilated but still too chilly to really be comfortable that tends to cause the problem.
 
AssignedEva said:
These are the same people who complain about British houses having damp problems. If you don't keep your house warm, and also don't air out your house (because you're trying to keep the remaining warmth in) then you get damp and mould. I don't keep it subtropical in here and am more than happy to add an extra layer, but the number of people who seem to complain about our terrible damp housing when they just don't understand how to live in our housing is ludicrous.
Ironically this wasn't historically so much of an issue before central heating and double glazing, because the houses back then were freezing and drafty, and you'd just heat rooms with fires, so that also kept mould at bay. It's the middle ground of a house that's unventilated but still too chilly to really be comfortable that tends to cause the problem.
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They have started building vents into upvc double glazing frame as standard for airflow but people tape over them as it also lets a hell of a lot of external noise in. This might be a new building standard but I’m not entirely sure as I’ve not had to pay attention to that.

Dehumidifiers are a good centre ground of keeping warm and keeping mould and noise at bay.
 
FedPostalService said:
They have started building vents into upvc double glazing frame as standard for airflow but people tape over them as it also lets a hell of a lot of external noise in. This might be a new building standard but I’m not entirely sure as I’ve not had to pay attention to that.

Dehumidifiers are a good centre ground of keeping warm and keeping mould and noise at bay.
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Trickle vents have been mandatory on all new fit UPVC for a few years now, they're a great (and more secure) alternative to leaving a window open but the same mongs who tape over all other forms of fresh air ventilation just do the same.

I distinctly remember seeing some mystery meat woman on the news giving it full compo face about her mouldy taxpayer funded house, while stood directly in front of a taped over wall vent. Infuriating.
 
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you'd just heat rooms with fires, so that also kept mould at bay.
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Sign up for all the physical mailing lists you can find and buy a nice thick metal bucket. Simple and free. Go take all the discarded christmas trees too and burn them, once again free and it makes your house smell nice. Smoke isn't a problem if you just blow on it really hard.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Sign up for all the physical mailing lists you can find and buy a nice thick metal bucket. Simple and free. Go take all the discarded christmas trees too and burn them, once again free and it makes your house smell nice. Smoke isn't a problem if you just blow on it really hard.
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You joke, but I'm in a smoke control area so the only fires I remember looked like this:
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AssignedEva said:
You joke, but I'm in a smoke control area so the only fires I remember looked like this:
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Smoke control areas don't exist. What are they going to do? Send me a letter telling me to stop? INTO THE FIRE, Send a policeman to tell me to stop? We're eating roast pork for the next few weeks. Force me into court? That big building with loads of paper and flammable shit? I'm heating the city then.
 
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