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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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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach, that's a level of nostalgia that I was convinced I'd forgotten about. Those shitty fires remind me of sunday school in this big fucking room where putting that fire on basically blasted you with heat but didn't distribute it well so you'd be cold on one side and boiling on another.
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Now you sit back from that, or else you'll get chilblains.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
If I'm understanding this correctly, they wanted to ban Tel Aviv supporters, couldn't find any evidence after a meeting, called the Dutch, and then made up a ton of shit in order to get them banned and hid proof they did?
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Looks like. They were already in trouble when the Dutch went, "er, that's not what we said" and then some conversations seem to have been had and they revised it to, "so maybe it's like what we said" while still not committing. I suspect the biggest reason the email can't be found is because it's going to confirm all four officers involved are named Moahmmad.
femboy fart huffer said:
Doubtful. Maybe it will fuck the individuals but they'll just be replaced by an identical clone, it is fucking Birmingham afterall. It's not like there's a shortage of retarded muslim loving jew hating white people.
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Worse versions will be the replacements. The people who step down will have more extreme ones replace them who will double down on everything.

Fucked is Brum as a whole.
 
LXXVII Brigade said:
Because we are evil oppressors and colonisers and have to roll over and accept our punishment for our crimes as a race.




We're also a threat to minorities so they need a "no whites" place where they can feel safe.
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Tell that to the Irish. Not that anyone darker than northern Italians will care, mind.

I know I’m screaming into the void here, but this is actual racism, demonising people completely, based entirely on their skin colour. The very thing they’ve been apparently campaigning against since the Windrush generation. Turns out they just wanted their own domination and not equality at all.

FedPostalService said:
If all Leeds fand died tomorrow I honestly fail how to see that's a bad thing?

They travel everywhere thinking they're elite hooligans, but when they have to go home the return to paki shagging girlfriends.

Total Leeds Death.
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Last time I encountered a Leeds fan on a train on match day, he looked like something out of a cut-price Oasis tribute band, and him and his mates were drinking white wine from full-size bottles with very long straws. And yes, they thought they were hard.

How big is that city, and they only have one football team that could only get its shit together in the 1950s? Sheffield laughs in your face, Leeds. As does Manchester and Liverpool.
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Why is racism okay against whites? There is no excuse, it’s just duper’s delight in being able to be an absolute cunt to people and get away with it. Same as the trans nonsense. Make a whites only festival and everyone who even thought about it would be in prison.

Chinese bus kill switch? Oh no, wherever will we be without barely-running, late, filthy and expensive buses? They could’ve put kill switches in somewhere a bit more helpful. Like a mute button for the BBC when they start reporting on politics.
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It's not, it's entirely illegal, if someone were to apply to join their little committee, and was declined on the grounds of their ethnic origin, they would a have strong case for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010, as race is a protected characteristic, meaning they would have a slam dunk case of direct discrimination. Moreover, anyone could start a claim of indirect discrimination, as the selection criteria is clearly effects one's protected characteristic.

They would likely try to run a defence of Genuine Occupational Requirement, using the analogy of a requiring a deaf person to hold high-up positions in charities for the deaf, which is present in Part 1 of the EA 2010, however, I think on the balance of probabilities that argument wouldn't be accepted, as I doubt a person's race is crucial to the role, nor is likely to be seen as proportionate to achieving a legitimate aim.

All in all, if someone did decide to pursue legal action, it would likely end up being a profitable venture, though mind you, it would likely make you public enemy number one to gaggle of insane POC Trans Folx.
 
teriyakiburns said:
I hear all the other teams are lost somewhere in the one-way system.
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It's interesting that a city the size of Leeds only has one team in both the Premier and Football League, whereas Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow all have two top flight teams resident in each of these cities.

There's loads of non-league sides nearby though, and Farsley Celtic are returning next season as well under the ownership of former Brighton 'keeper David Stockdale.
 

Lammy: My Christian faith shows me it’s right to curb jury trials :stress:​

Justice Secretary says religion has guided him to put victims at centre of his decision-making amid Crown Court backlogs
David Lammy has said his Christian faith shows him why it is right to curb jury trials.
The Justice Secretary told the BBC Sunday programme that he was not embarrassed about his faith or “doing God”, which Sir Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell famously urged new Labour ministers not to talk about.
He revealed how he was reduced to tears on his first days in office with the sense that it had been “God sent” for him to put the finishing touches to Labour’s Hillsborough law to protect victims by placing a duty of candour on public officials.

However, asked whether curbing jury trials clashed with his Christian principles of civic responsibility, Mr Lammy said that was “very simplistic.”
He said his job was to save the foundations of the criminal justice system and the tradition of juries in face of record Crown Court backlogs of nearly 80,000 cases that were delaying justice for years for thousands of victims.
“What does my faith in part call me to centre? It calls me to centre the victims of crime. It calls me to centre the mother in my constituency who’s just lost her son to knife crime, waiting three, four years for a trial and victims falling away,” he said.
“It calls me to centre the 16-year-old girl who might be raped this year, waiting for justice and her trial. And it’s for that reason that you reform.”

Mr Lammy is facing a huge backlash from the legal profession and Labour MPs over the plans to halve the number of jury trials by replacing them with judge-only courts and expanding the powers of magistrates to hear more serious cases with maximum sentences of 18 months, up from 12 months.

The son of first generation Christian immigrants from Guyana, Mr Lammy, 53, was one of the first black choristers in Britain after winning a choral scholarship to King’s School in Peterborough at the age of 10. “I love to sing and I guess my faith really has been with me throughout my life. It’s never departed,” he said.
He said his Christian socialist communitarian faith called him to “advocate for people who can’t advocate for themselves.”
“The foundation for me of justice is that idea that whoever you are, you deserve justice. In my office, I have a photograph of Martin Luther King with Rabbi Heschel marching and campaigning together for civil rights on behalf of groups of people,” he said.
“I was reduced to tears in the first days in office, because I felt it was almost God sent that I was in the right place at the right time to complete the last bit of negotiation, to get the Hillsborough law.”
He said it was “hugely humbling justice” to ensure that the Hillsborough, Grenfell and Windrush families now had a duty of candour that held the state to account “so that public servants can’t hide the truth from them.”

His comments come just a month after Shabana Mahmood, the first Muslim woman Home Secretary, spoke of her religious belief that her God-given privileges placed a duty on her to change lives for the better.
When he was foreign secretary, Mr Lammy and the US vice-president JD Vance, are said to have bonded over their shared Christian faith, with reports of them praying together, including attending Mass.

Mr Lammy told the BBC: “I’m not embarrassed about doing God. I’m not embarrassed about my faith. I’m not embarrassed about what my faith has given me. I’m not here to proselytise.
“But I’m absolutely not shying away from my Christian faith, my Christian conviction, my Christian socialism, and the huge privilege that I’ve had in this role, for example, to meet the Pope recently. That matters to me.
“It drives my conviction. There are parts of the progressive liberal community that are rather shy about faith, or indeed are sceptical of faith, but I think we should always recognise that we still live in a world where most people do have a faith.”

Asked about his relationship with JD Vance, Mr Lammy cited his faith and his own background from a deprived community, raised by a single mother then a scholarship to a top private school, which had taught him to find “common ground” with people.
“What we do have in common is working class backgrounds, is experience of addiction issues in our own families, and a strong faith for both of us. It’s within the tradition of a Catholic faith that’s guided us and guides us in public life. So we are able to find common ground, but disagree agreeably on a raft of issues as well,” he said.
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... John 7:51 ''Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?''
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
He said his Christian socialist communitarian faith called him to “advocate for people who can’t advocate for themselves.”
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Whatever happened to God helping those who help themselves? Liberation Theology needs to get the Albigensian treatment STAT.
 
They've already got all the webbysite pages up to volunteer as a magistrate. I'm actually considering it. I will go through all the bullshit training, then once I get on the bench I will send every muslim to jail and let every white man go free. Except the nonces. Maximum sentence (which is probably three days and a promise not to do it again, the way things are going).
 
David Lammy admits to hearing voices?

Says that it's 'God' talking to him...

Psychiatric Ward for him, post haste!


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Heinrich Maneuver said:
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Isn't it crazy that in quite literally every single way aside from prison quality (barely) our legal system is worse than it was a millennia ago? If we want to go Christian guided legal system then fuck you the only one that can judge me is God therefore all your legal rulings are bullshit heresy and I am off to go be not just racist in Greggs but also in starbucks too. I think we should have more Christianity in our government and legal system, mostly because it is literally satanic, the subversion and corruption of God's work through sin. I'm not saying kier is Satan or even demonic, that'd be far too high praise for him, but can you really tell me he looks human?
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Isn't it crazy that in quite literally every single way aside from prison quality (barely) our legal system is worse than it was a millennia ago? If we want to go Christian guided legal system then fuck you the only one that can judge me is God therefore all your legal rulings are bullshit heresy and I am off to go be not just racist in Greggs but also in starbucks too. I think we should have more Christianity in our government and legal system, mostly because it is literally satanic, the subversion and corruption of God's work through sin. I'm not saying kier is Satan or even demonic, that'd be far too high praise for him, but can you really tell me he looks human?
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A millennium ago we were following Anglo-Saxon customary law. That included compurgation - the precursor to modern juries, getting 12 men of good standing to swear an oath that they believed your innocence. Although for serious crimes they did more directly ask God, for example making you stick your hand in boiling water, and then if your burn didn't get infected that was God saying you were innocent.
 
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