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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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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.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

In related news, Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood is deferred as Keir Starmer unites Brit, Jew, and Persian for one glorious night:

Maybe this whole multiculturalism thing isn't that bad after all?

We are, and it does. Financial sector aside (London/The City is still the bees knees), our top-level, behind-the-scenes strategy and action plans of our military are still the best in the world, second only to Mossad.
This isn't a dig at Jews. Mossad are genuinely the best in the world at what they do, followed by us.
Our recce and intelligence gathering is second only to them as well.

Our power isn't in our projection, it has always been - even during The Empire, the ability to make powerful moves in silence, from the shadows and make them work.

The British military has never been one to try and directly fight an enemy, at least on it's own. We've always made big use of allies and Intelligence to make up for the lack of numbers. India and the Peninsula War are pretty much the peak of that doctrine.

I don't fancy being on a train with a knife wielding wog running at me.

As someone who has to use the NE main line a ton and spend six hours on it, I'm not exactly feeling good right now.

One of the reasons Restore is looking so good is they're not making stupid videos of twats hopping on 1 leg saying "look, she's friends with a Muslim!" They're laying out plans and objectives they want to achieve.

Restore actually thinks you're smart enough to not have to tell you something is bad. Every other party has to make sure their supporters know what the enemy this week.

2 men and a woman have been stabbed near Sighthill school in Edinburgh. Alleged picture of knifeman. Video.
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I hope to god they realise what they could unleash. We've had no major terror attack since the Glasgow airport incident years ago. Jocks are not ones to be pushed over as that bird in Lochee proves. I genuinely think they shit themselves when they realise what happens when we get pissed. Scotland's felt on a knife edge for a while now. Immigration ect is a problem but nowhere near to the same extent as England. Our right wing is smaller but it's ten times as die hard as the English. This could be a spark that sets off nasty shit up here.
It is Edinburgh though so maybe it's just part and parcel of living in a multicultural city.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

The British military has never been one to try and directly fight an enemy, at least on it's own. We've always made big use of allies and Intelligence to make up for the lack of numbers. India and the Peninsula War are pretty much the peak of that doctrine.

You are absolutely 100% correct, if by British you mean anyone but the British.
(We have used allies/locals to help some fights but you're doing us a massive disservice).

 

[teriyakiburns]

He will likely use this as a distraction to reshuffle or do some more U-turns while no one is looking.

Keith u-turns so often, you could use him to run mind-bending science experiments.

Wonderful country we live in. Send your kid to nursery and get them butchered by foreign men who shouldn't be here.

It's interesting to compare this with another mass child slaughter: Dunblane. That single incident prompted the government to immediately enact sweeping legal changes, yet multiple acts of a similar scale have not resulted in anything other than vague promises to be better. There's literally nothing, nothing, stopping the government from mass deporting these people.

 

[soulless guarantee]

According to the BBC article about the stabbing, the building he is currently in is majority council owned. Given that there's been no reports of him forcing his way into the flat, it seems pretty likely to me that he lives there in a council flat.

 

[FedPostalService]

That fag at GBPolitics says Andy Burnham has been trying to persuade a Labour MP to stand down, he allegedly offered Marie Rimmer a peerage if she gave up her St Helens South seat and he became PM. I think it's extremely weird this guy is like 15 years old and keeps getting rumours leaked to ''his team'' however some of his stuff proves true so keep an eye out.

Just tell people he supports Wigan in the rugby. Reform will win by a massive margin.

 

[>IMPLYING]

That fag at GBPolitics says Andy Burnham has been trying to persuade a Labour MP to stand down, he allegedly offered Marie Rimmer a peerage if she gave up her St Helens South seat and he became PM. I think it's extremely weird this guy is like 15 years old and keeps getting rumours leaked to ''his team'' however some of his stuff proves true so keep an eye out.

Going off of money-motives, MPs are more handsomely rewarded than mayors.

Whilst a mayor's salary is higher (110k+ a year vs 90k+ a year) MPs have a whole lot more ways of writing off expenses that leave them with overall more preserved income after taxes on top of a less demanding workload/schedule. The way I see it, being an MP by itself isn't too special – lucrativeness aside – but if it's in conjunction with other stuff, then it tends to make you more attractive for hire.

Mayor = looks good on CV
MP = more lucrative

I wouldn't be surprised if Burnham was doing this, but I wouldn't be surprised if many others were doing it too behind the scenes. "Listen, I know it's a good gig, but if you let me run in your [safe seat] I'll pay you back later." The only reason Sadiq Khan is still mayor I imagine is because it's the highest paying mayorship in the country, earning a salary greater than PM (169k vs 170k+) and maybe Labour is afraid of running an unfamiliar face out of fear it losing it to another party (there's still some political preservation alongside money).

I'm close to talking myself into joining Restore and putting in a bid to run as the candidate here. I'd love to run and win, if only to see if the job is actually deserving off the pay. Reform got an MP into a seat on a campaign of 200 quid so if I chuck 400 at it, maybe I'm a shoe-in.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I'm close to talking myself into joining Restore and putting in a bid to run as the candidate here. I'd love to run and win, if only to see if the job is actually deserving off the pay. Reform got an MP into a seat on a campaign of 200 quid so if I chuck 400 at it, maybe I'm a shoe-in.

Do it faggot. Drop us some meme "made in wales" quote so we know it's you and we can viral market you. It'll be great when you get on question time and go "You are all faggots. You are all niggers. You must leave this land and never return"

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

The whole thing is really funny tbh, Labour are acting like having to run another mayoral election would be the equivalent of the holocaust yet byelections happen all the time because MPs (who were also voted in for a full term) tend to pull the 'poor health' card whenever they've pissed their electorate off enough to believe they're at serious harm.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Do it faggot. Drop us some meme "made in wales" quote so we know it's you and we can viral market you. It'll be great when you get on question time and go "You are all faggots. You are all niggers. You must leave this land and never return"

Maybe I'll use the word "implying" a distracting number of times to signal to true believers that it's me.
"Are you implying you deserve to live here?"
"Yes?"
"Oh, so you're implying then that you're entitled to the same rights as anyone else?"
"Yes? Are you trying to get some kind of 'gotcha' from me, what're you doing?"
"...Are you implying-"
And so on. Plausible deniability you see.

I'd also take bill ideas from here, compile them into one super bill, then chuck it into private members pile and cross my fingers. If Null gives me the "True fan" sticker for free I'll name a bill with the acronym "K.I.W.I" (Knowledge, Integrity, Web, and Individual Rights) and like it or not he has a permanent association with the UK in some fashion.

Possibilities are endless.

The whole thing is really funny tbh, Labour are acting like having to run another mayoral election would be the equivalent of the holocaust yet byelections happen all the time because MPs (who were also voted in for a full term) tend to pull the 'poor health' card whenever they've pissed their electorate off enough to believe they're at serious harm.

Looking into it the mayor situation of Manchester is a little odd i.e. a fuck-ton of red flags


Mayor (popular elect) "rules" over the GMCA (unelected), who receive money/funding from the government and decided what to do with it. The unelected GMCA are the actual authority and not the mayor. The mayor however occupied the role of police commissioner, which effectively means Manchester's mayor is more a sheriff than the actual political authority, which is mostly in the hands of the unelected GMCA. However in 2020 the mayor now has to report their decisions to a new. unelected panel – The Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel – that has 12 council members assigned to it, and 2 people assigned to each member to advise effectively ballooning it to a 36-member panel.

The absolute state.

 

[Spud]

It's interesting to compare this with another mass child slaughter: Dunblane. That single incident prompted the government to immediately enact sweeping legal changes, yet multiple acts of a similar scale have not resulted in anything other than vague promises to be better.

I wonder why? I'm sure there's something about what happened that day that lead to the response, but I just can't see it.
Unrelated note, here's a pic of the Dunblane shooter

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

If the attacks are coming from commandless units and are sporadic, there's no reason to get involved and escalate.

When was the last time it was attacked? Akritiri is a decompression and relaxation camp and refuelling depot for long-haul middle-east flights.

The 1980s, I believe. I'll cop to having a soft spot for the Cypriots as I know a lot of them in Birmingham, and I agree escalation is not what we need, but Kier looks spineless. It's worrying seeing Iran chuck drones every which way and have him in charge.
No10 has announced they are focusing on de-escalation. Polanski says the UK is being dragged into 'another illegal war' (technically not true as Iran has now struck overseas UK territory, giving us casus belli if you still believe in International Law) and that we need to 'focus on our own national security'; which, if he believes that, why is the border still open to 'asylum seekers'?

MPs to get a 5% pay rise, taking their salary to £98,599.

 

[Ly Erg]

We already know the race but what about origin? I'm betting Somalian, muslim for extra flavor.

I hope to god they realise what they could unleash. We've had no major terror attack since the Glasgow airport incident years ago. Jocks are not ones to be pushed over as that bird in Lochee proves. I genuinely think they shit themselves when they realise what happens when we get pissed. Scotland's felt on a knife edge for a while now. Immigration ect is a problem but nowhere near to the same extent as England. Our right wing is smaller but it's ten times as die hard as the English. This could be a spark that sets off nasty shit up here.
It is Edinburgh though so maybe it's just part and parcel of living in a multicultural city.

You are glazing the Scots far too hard. England has done more in trying to fight back against the Muslim horde than the haggis niggers have ever done. "Oooh the Scots are pissed Oooh". They ain't doing shit. They haven't done shit and they won't do shit. The airport attack failed not because the "badass" Scots but because the Muslim retards smashed into bollards and set themselves on fire.

MPs to get a 5% pay rise, taking their salary to £98,599.

Why not just round up to 100000 at this poinr

 

[Clem Fandango]

Why not just round up to 100000 at this poinr

I've got a better idea: round it down to zero.

 

[Overly Serious]

I'm close to talking myself into joining Restore and putting in a bid to run as the candidate here. I'd love to run and win, if only to see if the job is actually deserving off the pay. Reform got an MP into a seat on a campaign of 200 quid so if I chuck 400 at it, maybe I'm a shoe-in.

You should really look at running in the USA. You'd be an absolute champ at fillibusters.

(Just kidding, I say go for it. As I said to someone else here, you'll at least meet a bunch of people who share your politics).

 

[>IMPLYING]

Why not just round up to 100000 at this poinr

Same reason why 0.99 is preferable to £1.
I also think the exact number would make news headlines.
There'd be huge cognitive dissonance between hard-left types over voting for any politician when their pay — by default — has them in the upper-middle class earning more than most doctors or many corporate managers.

I'm of the view that MPs shouldn't be a paid and have to live within their actual constituency. Most of the local governing is done via the local council their function in the administration of the area is pretty hollow.
Though travel expenses and temporary accommodation would probably have to be paid for, and the time they take off of their actual work to attend a parliament session would also be covered, such as what happens when people do jury duty.

It's the only way to assure people are putting the needs of their constituents over themselves, because it signals that the responsibility was taken on out of a sincere wish to do their civic duty over the fact it's an extremely high-paying job that requires 0 qualifications to get and regularly reshuffles. Being a politician is arguably an easier field to get into than anything requiring a university accreditation.

Lowe, Trump, Farage/Tice/Yusif (bear with me) are all millionaires, which render the MP/Rep/P salary negligible (hence why Lowe donates his to charity, lowe I imagine it gives him some sort of tax rebate or lower tax threshold or something) which gives them greater freedom to say/do shit without threatening their bottom line because their MP salary isn't their primary salary. I.E. their self-preservation and livelihood isn't tied to politics. It means their motive for being the way they are is:
1) Ego/wanting to be liked
2) Sincere belief/earnestness in some cause or ideology
3) Ambition
4) For fun
5) Furthering their own interests (this is the most 'money-minded' they can be, but I think such a person would pursue a goal on behalf of constituents so long as it doesn't affect them negatively in the pocket or their quality of living).

I think most of Reform's top brass would fall into 5), with Farage potentially being a 1). He'll completely change tune on a bunch of stuff if the polls started to decline.

 

[FedPostalService]

I hope to god they realise what they could unleash. We've had no major terror attack since the Glasgow airport incident years ago. Jocks are not ones to be pushed over as that bird in Lochee proves. I genuinely think they shit themselves when they realise what happens when we get pissed. Scotland's felt on a knife edge for a while now. Immigration ect is a problem but nowhere near to the same extent as England. Our right wing is smaller but it's ten times as die hard as the English. This could be a spark that sets off nasty shit up here.
It is Edinburgh though so maybe it's just part and parcel of living in a multicultural city.

You've clearly not been to Glasgow recently. It's swamped with all manner of browns. They're all terrified to mention it as the SNP are worse for arresting people for Wrongthink than even Labour are.

They all either ignore them or pretend they like them because racism is an English thing.

 

[Otterly]

2 men and a woman have been stabbed near Sighthill school in Edinburgh. Alleged picture of knifeman. Video.
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Sighthill is an absolute pit, it’s all council blocks and high rises, and it’s where a lot of the immigrants get stuck.

It is Edinburgh though so maybe it's just part and parcel of living in a multicultural city.

Most of the city is pretty safe. This is one bit that isn’t, and hasn’t been for a while. I hope they chuck him out of a window

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Kier looks spineless.

He usually does but in this instance, saying "no, fuck off" to the international community takes either bottle, or arrogant self belief. Either of those I can get behind.
His actions of keeping out of it are stronger than the rest of the pussy PM's who choked down Sen. Bloodfeast's old, wrinkly hog.

if he believes that, why is the border still open to 'asylum seekers'?

They don't believe Asylum seekers are dangerous, a problem or anything other than saviours.

Have you seen the new strict asylum reforms? Asylum seekers only have 30 months (5 years) to make a claim or have to go home. Very strict

 

[Kofi Drinka]

You've clearly not been to Glasgow recently. It's swamped with all manner of browns. They're all terrified to mention it as the SNP are worse for arresting people for Wrongthink than even Labour are.

They all either ignore them or pretend they like them because racism is an English thing.

The brown faggot is right.

Scotland has worse speech laws then England. In Scotland hate speech in your own home with no "victim" is a crime. You can never say wog without fear of a ginger bastard getting you done.

Scotland had 1 very good resource before 2020. There were a lot of very cheap houses in wet and cold places. The economy there was even worse than most other places so it was very cheap and run down. The exact type of places you can buy up a block of flats for pennies and shove all the browns in them. Last weekend there were protests in some regions of Scotland about migrant hotels. No violence but protests around them.

Scotland has a lot of immigrants dumped there but it's not talked about a lot because it's in shitty places no one cares about. They didn't care about them when they were poor benefits reliant areas and they care even less now they're full of brown benefit leeches. They were scum then and they're scum now so fuck it. Cheap houses for boat wogs.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

The brown faggot is right.

Scotland has worse speech laws then England. In Scotland hate speech in your own home with no "victim" is a crime. You can never say wog without fear of a ginger bastard getting you done.

Scotland had 1 very good resource before 2020. There were a lot of very cheap houses in wet and cold places. The economy there was even worse than most other places so it was very cheap and run down. The exact type of places you can buy up a block of flats for pennies and shove all the browns in them. Last weekend there were protests in some regions of Scotland about migrant hotels. No violence but protests around them.

Scotland has a lot of immigrants dumped there but it's not talked about a lot because it's in shitty places no one cares about. They didn't care about them when they were poor benefits reliant areas and they care even less now they're full of brown benefit leeches. They were scum then and they're scum now so fuck it. Cheap houses for boat wogs.

This is why I asked Ly Erg where he was from. There's a massive divide between what happens in the central belt and what happens above it. Most of the central belt is pretty "diverse" and that's mostly because it has the big cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh. The problem right now is that they've begun sticking them into the smaller places like Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. These places are ultimately shit holes and they've dumped hundreds if not thousands of foreigners into them.
We're not cucked up here, we just haven't had as many rapings/stabbing yet. Stabbings are a relatively normal thing in England right now. Mass stabbings are completely unheard of up here. Terrorism just doesn't happen on Scotland. This was Edinburgh though which means it's a big enough city not to care. If that happened further north like in Aberdeen it would effectively be Scotland's Southport.
The media up here is highly SNP aligned and a lot of this shit really doesn't leak south of the border. Don't just believe what the SNP tell you about whats going on up here.

You've clearly not been to Glasgow recently. It's swamped with all manner of browns. They're all terrified to mention it as the SNP are worse for arresting people for Wrongthink than even Labour are.

It's not Glasgow I'm worried about. It's the places further north like Dundee and Aberdeen which are getting pretty pissed off. There are more places than just Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland.