UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See spread happiness's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See pg often's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.

 

[teriyakiburns]

>he has also been employed
I have doubts.

 

[Overly Serious]

Visa crackdowns are 'forcing' DWP staff to leave the country, claims the i Paper

Maybe the vacancies can be filled by British workers. Double win for the DWP, no?

Bristol has always had an 'artsy' and weird section (ie, a Middle Class lol), but it's always hysterical to see Mancs and Bristolians now complaining that Londoners are moving to their cities and bringing higher prices with them. People who leave London never understand why they left London and keep bringing their policies and ideas with them.
It's like Californians moving to Wyoming and then finding out the locals do not want them voting.

There was a bunch of work done on the rail line between Bristol and London some years back to shave twenty minutes off the journey. There's not an insignificant number of people who commute between Bristol and London. Wouldn't fancy it myself but I bet a few "work on the train" for all the productivity that accounts for.

This is how Germany launders its gas generation into being "green" as well. It involves a lot of trickery and pretence, but the end result is that gas-generated electricity is exported through interconnects, which because it comes from the backups for renewables, is counted as "renewable generation" to pad the stats. Imports from the same interconnects are counted as "green" because they don't produce CO2 inside Germany's borders. The whole thing is a gigantic accounting scam. We're currently in a competition with Germany to see which country can destroy its economy faster. UK has a head-start on deindustrialisation, but Germany has gained a significant lead by sending a huge amount of its manufacturing overseas in the last decade. UK's response, thanks to mad Ed, is to speed-run total grid collapse by forcing every home to use electricity for heating while completely shutting down reliable power generation.

If you or I kill a man on the street, we'd probably get done for murder and put away for a long time. But if you kill a thousand people by hoisting energy prices to line your Green industry friends' pockets, why that's no crime at all.

Love to see the Londoners fuck off. They buy big expensive village houses. The ones with like 4 bedrooms and a stable yard. Immediately start building work. Then three months later there is a for sale sign on it. Happened to a really nice house near me just last week. Redid all the parking and then as soon as it was done a for sale sign came up. Same old story. "We want a quiet life in the country" and then they run back to London because they can't handle a quiet life and never even say good morning as they pass you.

Back in the Eighties there was the joke: "Come home to a real fire. Buy a cottage in Wales."

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Mark Collett did a march with his Understurmbanfuhrers Laura and Sam. Image is not edited, the presence of morbidly obese Darth Sidious in the background is not an addition.

Also, Lunch report: Working from home today, finishing some simulation code, job searching to escape the souf. Had a baked potato. Microwaved it first, covered it in salt, wrapped it in tin foil, 200C for 1:45. Had some baked beans, butter, cheese and a slice of bacon fried then diced. Cup of tea to go with it. Neighbour next door has smashed out 8 Stellas and is asleep on his deck chair. Come on England, bosch!

 

[Chicken of the woods]

Scott Mills has been sacked from Radio 2 over "personal conduct". Have there been rumours?

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Scott Mills has been sacked from Radio 2 over "personal conduct". Have there been rumours?

isn't he a fag? take a guess lol

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Scott Mills has been sacked from Radio 2 over "personal conduct". Have there been rumours?

Based African preacher vindicated.

2:21

Don't put your pennis in the ahnass of underage boys, Scott. That is for defahcayshon. Jesus doesn't like it.

 

[James X Maxwell]

Bristol has always had an 'artsy' and weird section (ie, a Middle Class lol), but it's always hysterical to see Mancs and Bristolians now complaining that Londoners are moving to their cities and bringing higher prices with them. People who leave London never understand why they left London and keep bringing their policies and ideas with them.
It's like Californians moving to Wyoming and then finding out the locals do not want them voting.


Ed Miliband has been accused of ‘cheating’ by labelling electricity from foreign gas-fired power stations as carbon free. He has pledged to make the grid 95% gas-free by 2030, yet in these plans 15% of UK power comes from gas powered stations in neighbouring countries

Its ironic as now the Mancs are drifting into Lancashire causing house prices to rise here alongside just so many Africans and Arabs

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Scott Mills has been sacked from Radio 2 over "personal conduct". Have there been rumours?

Apparently over a 'historic male relationship' so in true homosexual fashion he was probably banging someone just out of school.

As the old saying goes: Never ask a man his wage, a woman her age or a homosexual what the age gap was when they 'discovered' themselves.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

An incredibly swift firing turnaround. Either an ex with some spectacular blackmail or a child. Know where my money is.

 

[teriyakiburns]

BBC is running anti-dog propaganda again.

I can't find any other source for this video right now, so here's a shitty youtube short.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

BBC is running anti-dog propaganda again.

I can't find any other source for this video right now, so here's a shitty youtube short.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kmi_9AoUV7A

This is pro-muzzie shit and I want this wog swinging from a lampost, stat!

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Dogs are clearly a dogwhistle for the far right, personally I'd have dog owners lined up and shot along with their families so their empty houses could be bought by SERCO and used to house more Somalians.

 

[Candidate No 7]

I can't be arsed at the moment but that list is really incestuous with how much overlap there is. Many of these groups are sister groups of some larger group and it effectively gives the impression of greater organisational support when in reality you can consolidate many of these into the same group more or less.
Muslim Council of Britain + Stand up to Racism + Communications Workers Union + National Union of Teachers + Muslim Engagement and Development + Unite the Union + Socialist Action + Many more <-
Unite Against Fascism i.e. Socialist (revolutionary sort) party front that pretends it isn't.
View attachment 8779471
View attachment 8779481

View attachment 8779473
View attachment 8779474View attachment 8779475
Kind of takes the wind out of their sails that they need the support and financial backing of every single Union centralised under this one group who can't attach themselves to anything officially because:
1) They're a obvious front for Socialists
2) The optics of calling basic bitch Conservatism "fascist"

Stand Up to Racism is essentially Stop the War on certain days of the week. Mix of Socialist Workers Party, far-left of Labour (some of them now purged e.g. Diane Abbott), and a few Islamists and celebs.

They have all inherited from the SWP the party trick of bringing shitloads of spare signs to every protest they turn up to and hand them over to people that don't have one and don't know who they are. This is why they appear huge in photos of big protests. So many signs, but most people holding them are not with them.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

BBC is running anti-dog propaganda again.

I can't find any other source for this video right now, so here's a shitty youtube short.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kmi_9AoUV7A

I sincerely dislike this incredibly disingenuous 'people who afraid of dogs' bullshit line that they're using in this clip.

There will, presumably, have ALWAYS been people in this country who were afraid of dogs, but it's only now that suddenly we're having this discussion and we, the literal 'nation of dog lovers', are talking about changing our way of life entirely to cater to the concerns of this particular cynophobic demographic.

Which is very odd.

It's so obvious a move towards more Muslim control, but it makes it a million times worse that they're so shit at pretending it isn't.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Apparently over a 'historic male relationship' so in true homosexual fashion he was probably banging someone just out of school.

What fags are you talking about? They lose interest once their victims have left school.

Russel T Davis literally showed them dropping their victims off at school after they had abused them. It's in the trailer for the TV series!

This is pro-muzzie shit and I want this wog swinging from a lampost, stat!

There are very few things as pro-British as dog ownership. My dogs are my family, as much as any person I share blood with or have a child with. If you try to separate a British family from it's dogs then you're a fucking monster and do not belong on this planet. Loyal, smart, protective and education for responsibility all wrapped into one.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

He was sacked over a 'historic male relationship' according to the Sun... what are the odds! (X)

Police on scene in Bury, they say its not terror related. (X)

 

[Vesperus]

Introducing a new alpha predator will impact every single creature in that eco system.

...it's only now that suddenly we're having this discussion and we, the literal 'nation of dog lovers', are talking about changing our way of life entirely to cater to the concerns of this particular cynophobic demographic.

Let's re-introduce wolves to Britain, starting in Tower Hamlets and Bradford.

Edit: Those genetically engineered direwolves look like good boys who need a home.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Police on scene in Bury, they say its not terror related. (X)

Those armed police look like they're gathered up here:

 

[Johnny Dipp]

Lost my Chocolate Lab 2 years ago. One of my favourite memories of him was walking around a corner to find 4 black kids playing in an alley. I don't think my dog had ever seen a black person before, he started barking at them. I thought to myself "my dog is racist" and found the idea hilarious. So all these black kids saw was a dog walker come up to them with the dog going mental and the walker laughing like a psycho.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Is there not a huge and obvious fucking irony in having a No Kings protest in a country where we've actually got one?

We have a king? I think that charles bloke prefers the title of imam actually. We have some post cunt who does nothing and lets his country turn to ruin. If that's what a king is then maybe I can get behind what these american retards are saying.

Women against the far right

Muslim Association of Britain

I love that these two are literally right next to each other. The far right? You mean like those people that want to turn the country into a far right ultra conservative theocracy and their entire belief system involves completely decimating the rights of women?

DWP staff

I don't think that anyone in charge of any governmental shit like that should ever be allowed to not be at the very fucking least a citizen. Yea so we've had countless times where chinese spies have been marrying politicians and all that sort of shit and that's a massive issue but let's just let all these literal foreigners into our fucking government systems and hope nothing will go wrong?

have ALWAYS been people in this country who were afraid of dogs, but it's only now that suddenly we're having this discussion

I don't remember a time where people being scared or allergic to something has ever required a crackdown on other people owning that thing. People fucking die from nut allergies and there's no license to own a bag of cashews yet. Last time I checked people who were afraid of dogs just didn't want to be near them, not for them to be completely banned or whatever. Idk I am pretty scared and allergic to being raped or stabbed by a fucking paki, sure a lot more people will agree with that than dogs, so can we have a talk about being a bit less friendly to them and maybe getting a few of them put down for social cohesion reasons?

People will never give up their dogs, no one will stop owning dogs because some paki got offended. For all the talk of how good muslims are and refugees welcome and all that shit, once you start fucking with something that the left like as well they will start to have the exact same reaction. As soon as you try to fuck with people in their lives that much and with something that they love and loves them back then good luck. I know for a fact I am not the only one that would kill someone if they tried to hurt my dog.