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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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Chunky Salsa said:
Trying to get a black woman to admit that 'yeah all blacks are low IQ feral animals' is probably a non starter tbh.
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Depends how much she wants your dick. I've met plenty of "based black men" who shit all over other blacks. They hate each other only slightly less than they hate whitey.
BongoMongo said:
People are right, you don't see Da Blaq Yoofz behaving like this in Africa. Which proves bringing them over here doesn't work and the best thing is to send them and their families packing.
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How do you raid super stores in Africa? They don't have any.
 
Immigration officers were in Birmingham Chinatown... I have less of an issue with the Taiwanese and Hong Kongers in town than the Pakis. They've got the wrong type of Asian. However there's been a noticeable uptick in immigration raids, we had a few more nighttime ones on the Hagley road, but broad daylight is new.

Kofi Drinka said:
I've met plenty of "based black men" who shit all over other blacks
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Caribbeans hate Africans in my experience, they especially hate African-Americans. But it's just like 'based' Sikhs hating Muzzies, or Hindus, just tribal conflict we don't need here.

Oh Polanski said his celebrity crush was Idris Elba, poor sod lmfao. He's so disgusting.
 
diroama said:
What fucked up parties are you going to?
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I went to the boris covid party. You wouldn't believe the shit that went down..
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Caribbeans hate Africans in my experience, they especially hate African-Americans. But it's just like 'based' Sikhs hating Muzzies, or Hindus, just tribal conflict we don't need here.
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He was an American negro. Played Halo with him when I was a young naive lad.
 
I really hope all the people on benefits starve to death. A bunch of leeching wasters all faking the sad brain. Not like our guests, who really do need 5 star holes after they had such a hard trip crossing the channel from France. They're the future of this country and anything less than a 5 star is degrading to those poor families and children.

Can you guess the political party?
 
Derby terrorist was on a student visa (via Telegraph, article not on website?)
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Wigmore (Luton) Council By-Election Result:
RFM: 32.9% (New)
LDM: 30.4% (-24.2)
GRN: 19.6% (+10.5)
LAB: 9.7% (-0.3)
CON: 6.6% (-4.4)
Ind: 0.7% (New)
No Ind (-15.2) as previous. Reform GAIN from Liberal Democrat. Changes w/ 2024. These elections are going to be a bloodbath

M&S boss calls for more action on crime and abuse of staff. Emphasis mine​

Marks & Spencer's retail director has called for a crackdown on retail crime, after a string of incidents involving shoplifting and violence at its stores.

Thinus Keeve said police should be given the resources to tackle the issue, which he says is "getting worse, not better", with retail staff facing "abuse and violence in their workplace every day".
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Writing in the Telegraph, external, Keeve said he had written to London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan urging him to provide extra support for police. It is understood the mayor will meet with M&S soon.

Keeve said: "In the past week alone we have had gangs forcing open locked cabinets and stripping shelves, two men brazenly emptying the shelves of steak and walking out, a large group of young people ransacking a store before assaulting a security guard, a colleague headbutted trying to defuse a situation and another hospitalised after having ammonia thrown in their face."
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M&S chief executive Stuart Machin has also written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, according to Keeve.

Hawksbee said that while retail crime has always existed, it "does feel in the past weeks and months that the problem is getting worse".

The external affairs director said M&S had invested "tens of millions" into security but that there was "only so much you can do" without additional police intervention and more use of data to identify retail crime hotspots.
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Crime and Policing Minister Sarah Jones called the incidents "disgraceful" and urged police to use all the tools at their disposal to protect workers and punish those responsible.

"We're giving police stronger powers, ending the immunity for thefts under £200 so that shoplifters can be prosecuted," she added.

About 100 officers were called to Clapham High Street on Tuesday where young people were reported to be attempting to access shops and a restaurant. They also lit fires and set off fireworks on Clapham Common.

Six teenage girls were arrested after two separate incidents of anti-social behaviour "fuelled by online trends", according to the Met Police.

Five people were assaulted, including four police officers. The Met said it expected more arrests would be made in the coming days.

Ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend, the Met said they had increased officer numbers and put in place a "strong policing plan... to prevent and deal with any future disorder".

Jim Bligh, director of corporate affairs at the British Retail Consortium, said the incidents in Clapham were "deplorable" and called for the mayor and police to "double down on tackling this scourge".

Hawksbee said M&S bosses had been planning to contact the home secretary and London mayor prior to the Clapham incident.

He called on local and national leaders to "all get round the table, roll our sleeves up and try to deal with this challenge because at the moment it feels like it's going in the wrong direction".

Incidents of anti-social behaviour involving teens have been reported in other parts of the country in recent days.

In Rochdale, police imposed a dispersal order on Friday and Saturday after groups were "reported to be harassing staff and causing criminal damage".

West Midlands Police imposed restrictions on gatherings in Solihull for 36 hours from Monday after "children and teenagers" were reported to be causing criminal damage.
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A lot of asking the police to 'do something', but not saying what. I expect there will be more ''youths'' robbing shops over the Easter bank holiday. Sparks are kind of reaping what they sowed with all the Diverse(TM) adverts

ETA: DRILL BABY DRILL*

Ed Miliband to approve first major North Sea gasfield project in decade​

The energy secretary is expected to give the green light to Jackdaw drilling as the Iran war and energy security fears force a shift in government policy​

Ed Miliband is expected to give the green light to the first major North Sea oil and gasfield project in almost ten years as ministers face political pressure to increase drilling during the war in Iran.

Whitehall officials say the energy secretary is minded to approve the Jackdaw gasfield, 150 miles off Aberdeen, which could begin supplying gas to more than a million homes this winter. The company says it could produce the equivalent of 6 per cent of the UK’s future gas supply.

The project has been awaiting Miliband’s approval since 2024 after the High Court ruled that a previous licence was invalid because it had not taken into account the carbon emissions generated from burning the gas it produced.

The project is being assessed under the new criteria by the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning before Miliband makes a final decision.

Although no decision is expected before next month’s elections in Scotland, Whitehall sources said Miliband was minded to approve the development because he did not consider it incompatible with the government’s carbon reduction commitments.

Miliband, however, is said to still be opposed to the Rosebank field, which predominantly contains oil reserves. In opposition Miliband said that allowing Rosebank to go ahead would be an act of “climate vandalism”. A government spokesman said no decision on either project had been made.

One source said Miliband was under intense political pressure to greenlight both fields at a time of growing focus on the UK’s energy security as the conflict in the Middle East continues.

The GMB union has been vocal in its calls for the government to give the go-ahead to both fields. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, has also indicated that she supports increased drilling in the North Sea.

Although Sir Keir Starmer has refused to comment publicly, citing the fact that it is a quasi-judicial decision for Miliband, Downing Street is acutely aware that public opinion on further drilling has been shifting as a result of the crisis in the Middle East.

Writing in The Times, the entrepreneur Sir James Dyson attacks the government for its policies on North Sea oil and calls for it to reconsider fracking.

He also accuses the government of adopting “revenge economics” with “politically vindictive” policies on enterprise and wealth creation.
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*depends on the Scottish elections
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Can they shut the fuck up bitching at each other and actually DO something? This is why politics is fucking pointless now.
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This is why they want to be back in the EU, incidentally. No need to do anything at all, except posture and preen about how they would totally do things differently, while they let the EU handle all the nasty business of writing regulations and laws. Every unpopular thing they did do could be blamed on "EU obligations", and they could gild the lily of every directive to add on their own unique fuckwittery and make life miserable. All the prestige, none of the responsibility. It was a perfect system for people like Milliband and Cameron.
 
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UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Can they shut the fuck up bitching at each other and actually DO something? This is why politics is fucking pointless now.
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It's pathetic how scummy the parties are with all the finger pointing and nothing being done. If they can't get one over on someone else they aren't interested in doing it. And will sabotage the country in order to make a political rival look bad. It's worse than Rome at this point.
 
teriyakiburns said:
This is why they want to be back in the EU, incidentally. No need to do anything at all, except posture and preen about how they would totally do things differently, while they let the EU handle all the nasty business of writing regulations and laws. Every unpopular thing they did do could be blamed on "EU obligations", and they could gild the lily of every directive to add on their own unique fuckwittery and make life miserable. All the prestige, none of the responsibility. It was a perfect system for people like Milliband and Cameron.
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This "blame the EU" for all the bad laws is why a lot of people voted Brexit,I think. They spent years blaming problems on the EU; People heard this; were given a chance to GTFO the EU and went ahead and took it.
 
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