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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

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.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

some guy

Damn wow and it's a fucking brown. Who would have thought?

I don't think scrapping aid is a good idea and I'm sure that Lowe isn't thinking of scrapping it entirely. But it should be reserved for mutual shit, Japan gets hit by an earthquake then we'll help you out because you'd do the same. It should be a relationship not just a parasite. What good has my tax money being sent to africa done? They can't even keep the fucking wells I paid for working. Like since when did foreign policy, ie the way that we interact and deal with other countries just devolve into 'fucking give everyone as much money as possible even if the return is 0%'? I want to live in a country not a fucking charity.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I don't think scrapping aid is a good idea and I'm sure that Lowe isn't thinking of scrapping it entirely. But it should be reserved for mutual shit, Japan gets hit by an earthquake then we'll help you out because you'd do the same.

Aaand you've fallen for the naming trick. The foreign aid budget isn't typically spent on that sort of thing. It's all "international development" spending, some of which might end up helping people after an earthquake, but the absolute majority of which goes to feel-good "aid" programmes. Every headline figure for emergency assistance comes from a separate budget and is usually passed through the commons as an emergency measure.

 

[EddyRooney]

Hmm. Why have the Office for National Statistics produced this table in a counter intuitive manner ? Could they possibly have an agenda ?
Only thing I'm amazed by is that the net contribution by whites is only £1,444 p.a..

 

[Swerf'n'Terf]

(Just in case anyone was not already aware) I made a thread about about Lowe's firing that I intend to rewrite as a Rupert Lowe, Restore, Rape Gang Enquiry General very soon. I'd love it if interested people would consider contributing to the thread, which is here.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

But it should be reserved for mutual shit,

Lowe's idea for foreign aid is for natural disasters only and a one time donation, and only for friendly countries. No "international development"

 

[Otterly]

If you're too busy shitting yourself then you're too busy to worry about a headache

Ah the cholera defence ..!

Why should we give any country foreign aid?

We shouldn’t, in general. One-off emergency aid comes from a different budget, and expertise, like search and rescue does too. I have no issue sending the search and rescue to Japan or really anywhere as a one off after an earthquake or tsunami, such efforts are humanitarian and time limited.
The nebulous ‘international development’ stuff is a bottomless pit, and it’s abused on all sides. Oxfam workers abusing children in Haiti, cover for black ops budgets, it’s all got to stop.
And the NGOs. They need to go. The quangos need to go. The benefits and accommodation for migrants has to go. If you come here for work you need to be on a points based system and have an insurance policy for unemployment and the nhs.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

As a whole it is great to see just how many people are turning on Nigel as of late or at the least have become aware of how much of a snake he is. I still see Reform winning next election but the 5 years they get in office will be disastrous. Maybe after that Lowes party will have a chance.

He's always been like this. He loathes having to actually work which is why he usually backs causes that at the time have no chance of winning then when they do he fucks off or when it looks like he's about to win betray the base so they leave so the cause loses. Brexit winning was the worst thing to ever happen to him.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Could they possibly have an agenda ?

And yet more fucking bullshit 'asian' too. God did not create the largest mountain range on Earth to keep the jeets out just for them to be called 'asian'. I have said it many times but I am more Asian than any fucking jeet is, at least I live in fucking Eurasia.

I can't find that graph though. Ons website. Any of the sites don't even have a single result for the word 'ethnicity'. The only place that I can find which posted this graph and gives any link is on reddit and that link leads to a blank page on the ons site which is somewhat linked to the linked site and that once again does not have this image or any talk of ethnicity at all. I cannot find where this graph came from. Whether that means the government knows it fucked up and is hiding shit, or grifters made shit up to grift on, I do not know.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

It’s over.

https://x.com/trobinsonnewera/status/2023056294387540074?s=46

 

[Clem Fandango]

Hmm. Why have the Office for National Statistics produced this table in a counter intuitive manner ? Could they possibly have an agenda ?
Only thing I'm amazed by is that the net contribution by whites is only £1,444 p.a..


Lie, damn lies and Liebor.mp4

So how is this not a complete disaster? Forget all the social issues of mass migration, just from an economic perspective. How is it sustainable for the ONLY group that pays into the system to be declining as a share of population, while at the same time the number of people taking out of the system is increasing year on year?

 

[Vesperus]

some guy currently having a menty b on twitter over Restore's 'no fucking gibs' policy.

Brown person who gets paid with taxpayers money to advise which brown people should get taxpayers money is opposed to taxpayers not giving brown people money.
Put this leech on the first flight out.

 

[JayseeDenton]

Please tell me that this isn't true.

This is going to be a rug pull, isn't it? Turns out, all of the rape gangs were ackshually huwhite people

Yeah huwhite people named Abdulha Mohommadfa Nassimet

Even with a media blackout, we have reached tens of millions. We have made real progress.

Hard to be hopeful but maybe they won’t fuck this up.

As a burger I just want to say we're rooting for you guys. I really felt Rubio's speech the other day about how Europe is our parents. Every white person in America feels it in our names, history, lineage, language, religion, all of it. As Rubio said I desperately want a future where we're tight together and strong as ever, I just want you guys to cleanse the crap out of your system (as we need to ourselves). I think and hope that all of Trump's chimping out is just a strategy to force such changes through the system and I hope some people in Europe are able to see that even if it is kind of outlandish how it's going about.

For all the shit Americans have talked online the last year I promise you for most of us seeing Europe get raped is sickening, it gives me the same feeling I had on September 11th. Particularly for Britain because my ancestry on both sides comes from Scotland and a bit of England. My grandmother used to play highland music on her violin from some hundred year old sheet music her own grandfather had brought over. It always felt familiar somehow, she wasn't born there but visited a few times a decade to stay in touch with her long lost family members. She always told me I needed to go see it someday. I can't imagine if she was alive to see this...

I am curious, is Rupert Lowe's party a cope party or something that could meaningfully influence the election even if he doesn't win? In the US 3rd parties are a complete joke but I know it's a bit more complex in the UK.

 

[Snekposter]

Aaand you've fallen for the naming trick. The foreign aid budget isn't typically spent on that sort of thing. It's all "international development" spending, some of which might end up helping people after an earthquake, but the absolute majority of which goes to feel-good "aid" programmes. Every headline figure for emergency assistance comes from a separate budget and is usually passed through the commons as an emergency measure.

What's your equivalent of USAID, then? I'm sure you have one, and its probably some sort of gay-as-fuck quango, too.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

“I found the crown of England in the gutter. I picked it up with the tip of my sword and cleaned it, and placed it atop my own head.”

- Rupert Lowe

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

I am curious, is Rupert Lowe's party a cope party or something that could meaningfully influence the election even if he doesn't win? In the US 3rd parties are a complete joke but I know it's a bit more complex in the UK.

If they do it right then we would have someone to vote for that isn’t just going to continue on as normal but under a different colour rosette.

Whether they can do it for 2029 and win, I don’t know. A lot could happen between now and then. We could have an early general election. Early signs are Restore policies will be common sense and what the majority of the folk who’ll vote for them want.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

We shouldn’t, in general. One-off emergency aid comes from a different budget, and expertise, like search and rescue does too. I have no issue sending the search and rescue to Japan or really anywhere as a one off after an earthquake or tsunami, such efforts are humanitarian and time limited.

I do though, in that case it's a Japan problem.

When 7/7 happened and London was blown to pieces did we recieve any foreign aid? When there's been some absolutely horrific train crashes where dozens are dead did we recieve any foreign aid? When areas of the UK have flooded or had major blackouts in the middle of winter from extreme winds taking down power lines did we recieve any foreign aid?

No. Foreign aid is a one way system.

 

[Otterly]

I do though, in that case it's a Japan problem.

When 7/7 happened and London was blown to pieces did we recieve any foreign aid? When there's been some absolutely horrific train crashes where dozens are dead did we recieve any foreign aid? When areas of the UK have flooded or had major blackouts in the middle of winter from extreme winds taking down power lines did we recieve any foreign aid?

No. Foreign aid is a one way system.

UKISAR gain valuable experience and skills from this sort of deployment, they’re usually from the fire brigades but they will send others too if they have specific skills. I know a few mountain rescue and a couple of them have ended up going as well on similar trips. It helps them keep their skills up to date and that benefits us here.
I’m sure we use it to get intelligence too, and these things are time limited.
I know for a fact we’ve done some ‘interesting’ underwater recoveries that benefitted our spooks
General money for the third world? Not without specific justification

 

[twosu]

"I'd rather be labelled a racist than enable rape."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8UoSagw9ALA

That puts him head and shoulders above any Reform cunt.
He's still short of what I'd like but he's the best of the rest of what's left.

 

[Ly Erg]

He's always been like this. He loathes having to actually work which is why he usually backs causes that at the time have no chance of winning then when they do he fucks off or when it looks like he's about to win betray the base so they leave so the cause loses. Brexit winning was the worst thing to ever happen to him.

He's always been one to avoid doing hard work if it isn't say, stroking his ego and getting tons of money for little effort and input. The minute Brexit won, he fucked off, made sure to get German passports for his family in case things got real bad as a result and everyone else had to clean up his and Boris mess for all their bullshit propaganda that has yet to yield any proper results.

Him being Prime Minister means he actually has to go out there, do work that has made Prime Ministers stress their hair out and will have almost the entire Island watching and hearing about any potential fuckups he does. That is not going to happen.

and London was blown to pieces

I don't remember London being marked off the face of the earth. I would of noticed an improvement if that were the case.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Foreign aid is a one way system.

And we should fix that. Not abandon it. Allies should help allies, if they don't help us we don't help them. If they are not our ally then we don't help them. We shouldn't scrap actual foreign policy just because the retards in power currently are retarded, otherwise we would scrap the entire country. Yea we should look at the people who didn't help us when we needed help, we should remember that next time they need help and put our foot down if it is entirely one way. At the moment we don't get help because our government is a fucking pushover and everyone knows nothing will happen. If we had someone with a pair of balls to say 'we're not going to help you anymore unless it's reciprocated' then it'd be different.