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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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#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.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds

The BBC not only reporting this, but actively investigating it, is incredible. Makes me wonder if the powers that be have finally realised they need to roll back some of their idiocy. Or maybe they're setting up to strip away our rights and turn us into chattel under the guise of "fixing" the human rights industrial complex, while they continue to import a million foreigners every year.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Yea but if I went to the carribean and saw some woman in a coconut bra and frond skirt I wouldn't instantly start trying to squeeze at them for a tit milk pina colada.

you've really put me in the mood for a tit milk pina colada now.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds

Why are you PRETENDING TO BE geh?

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

There's a segment from the BBC going semi viral after a reporter approaches a black man outside a Swindon spoons to ask his opinion on the election; he then proceeds to tell the reporter the town centre is overrun with immigrants, women and children don't feel safe (and he only goes to Swindon for his occassional Guinness, he won't even go to the bank anymore), and that it's unfair he earns 1900 but a friend on benefits gets 1500. The reporter leaves swiftly.
Seems incredibly racist to assume a black guy would have wonderful lefty points, and I mean, look at him- he's got second Guinness despite only being a third through his first. Geezah behaviour.

you've really put me in the mood for a tit milk pina colada now.

Acapulco in halifax does those, or so I've heard.

 

[diroama]

Rambling thoughts incoming inspired by the words of that black guy interviewed about racism.

I don't think the root of racism is skin colour. It's culture. I genuinely believe that if someone "fits in" with what we consider normal, British culture it doesn't matter to people what colour they are. It's how they act. It's how they sound.

And that's why the recent mass immigration has been an issue. Them being brown is one thing, but it's not that they're brown. It's that they behave differently.

And when you see white youths aping their culture - be that the weird Muslim converts, or lads acting like roadmen and putting on that accent, they're equally distasteful to most people despite them being lilly white.

When you have a drip feed of immigration they can truly integrate and actually become an asset. Do I think the UK would be better off if we never had Frank Bruno, Trevor Phillips or the guy that played Johnson in Peep Show? Of course not.

But when you have hordes of people with their own cultures creating ghettos and attempting to impose their way of life on everyone else - in many cases with the full support of the state - then it becomes the problem we see. Resentment sets in.

There's that old trope about a racist saying "but not you, you're one of the good ones". What he really means is: you behave as I expect. You fit in. You're not spending all day drinking coffee and leering at girls, or trying to con me, or shuffling around in a dress while your wife walks ten steps behind, or fucking your cousin and expecting everyone else to pay for your retarded kids.

Anyway I'm not saying anything new just wanted to share my tuppence.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

And that's why the recent mass immigration has been an issue. Them being brown is one thing, but it's not that they're brown. It's that they behave differently.

There's that old trope about a racist saying "but not you, you're one of the good ones". What he really means is: you behave as I expect. You fit in. You're not spending all day drinking coffee and leering at girls, or trying to con me, or shuffling around in a dress while your wife walks ten steps behind, or fucking your cousin and expecting everyone else to pay for your retarded kids.

Spoiler: Agree + tangent

Fitting in is so important for us humans in general. I've recently seen more and more left wing ''transplant'' discourse, ie people who aren't from New York, London, Manchester, Los Angeles, moving to those cities but then acting like they are from there. ''They buy up all the cheap housing, take our jobs, and don't assimilat- I mean don't fit in with our city's super unique and vibrant Culture man!! They aren't even from here!''. It's anti-immigrant lines, verbatim, just against 'the bad ones' (who for them, are like, white kids from out of state, or posh people). I've skimmed a few journal articles on how 'city-pride' is because national pride is looked down upon in those circles, but really humans just need a Tribe to fit into and for everyone to behave the same way.
I find it funny when people have hate in their heart for Londoners buying flats in Bham but don't have anything to say about browns being shoved into every block because muh affordable housing. It's the same with the new Irish ''nationalists'' (they don't call themselves as such), EVERYONE can be Irish, in fact a Somali off the plane is just as Irish as any other mick- except the Englishman. We suddenly understand what nationality is when it comes to the English. Everyone skirts around the issue of nationalism, or in-group out-group psychology, but everyone understands it.
That Welsh council used 'people from Birmingham' as a euphemism for browns. It's sort of acceptable to them.

 

[Help I'm A BritFag]

The BBC not only reporting this, but actively investigating it, is incredible. Makes me wonder if the powers that be have finally realised they need to roll back some of their idiocy. Or maybe they're setting up to strip away our rights and turn us into chattel under the guise of "fixing" the human rights industrial complex, while they continue to import a million foreigners every year.

It'll be fascinating to see how the "refugees welcome" crowd, who for years have dismissed such claims as "racist far right disinformation spread by Farage and the Daily Heil", respond now that even their beloved oracle of truth the BBC is reporting on them. Will they now regard the BBC as a "far right hate rag" or make any attempt to disprove the claims the story made?

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

The BBC not only reporting this, but actively investigating it, is incredible. Makes me wonder if the powers that be have finally realised they need to roll back some of their idiocy

Blacks have overspilled into their areas, simple. The London shop raids were in otherwise affluent areas. The tube is absolutely full of them. Their daughters and sons private schools are teeming with the hoard.

 

[Elysian]

Will they now regard the BBC as a "far right hate rag"

They literally already do. It’s mental.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds

Watching the BBC do the same story the Daily Flail did years ago is hilarious.

 

[Sheep King]

it's not that they're brown

lolno they're the colour of poop.

When you have a drip feed of immigration they can truly integrate and actually become an asset. Do I think the UK would be better off if we never had Frank Bruno, Trevor Phillips or the guy that played Johnson in Peep Show? Of course not.

If they're such an asset, then their home countries would be less of a shithole with more like them.

Spoiler

I have sympathy for those who didn't choose to be here, like Kemi Olobogomofunkopop, but the same people that imported them to rape my way of life to death are actively exploiting that sympathy to bring in more, so until that's over, I think sympathy is better spent elsewhere.

 

[cancelmysubscription]

If you change your behaviour and expectations to include what a horde of foreign rapists are going to do then you accept you will never get rid of them. If you allow that to become normal then there will be no incentive to fix it. Should I just fucking roll over and put on a burka because well it'll make them happy?

You clearly haven’t got kids, but try for a moment to imagine that you did have… you’d be telling your daughter to wear whatever she wanted and do whatever she wanted irrespective of what we’ve discussed because of this illogical spiel of yours?

They’re here now. They’re a huge problem. You must take that on board and respond to it with avoidant behaviour until the problem is sorted. At no point have I suggested wearing a veil or anything fucking close.

My guy, respectfully, you're wasting your time. Better to focus on what we agree on (browns must go).

Thanks, I’m certainly realising that.

‘Don’t blame the porn!’ ‘Wear nothing and get completely vulnerable in heavy migrant areas, not doing so would be giving in! It’s their fault if they rape you, after all! They might actually get a custodial sentence if they’re ever found or even investigated!’ Insane takes.

But yes, we are ultimately on the same side.

The BBC not only reporting this, but actively investigating it, is incredible. Makes me wonder if the powers that be have finally realised they need to roll back some of their idiocy. Or maybe they're setting up to strip away our rights and turn us into chattel under the guise of "fixing" the human rights industrial complex, while they continue to import a million foreigners every year.

Yes it’s certainly suspicious. The human rights/NGO/‘refugee’ industrial complex is insane and this sort of thing and worse has been going on from the start, letting full bearded grizzled men put their age down as fourteen and so on… but more than that, they signpost them on how exactly to milk the system, how to claim, they do everything for these scum. It’s genuinely treasonous, traitorous behaviour and should be investigated as such.

 

[AssignedEva]

Perfidious Columbia strikes again

Trump threatens to rip up trade deal with Britain​

President suggests he could change agreement after Rachel Reeves attacks his war in Iran



Donald Trump has threatened to rip up his trade deal with Britain after Rachel Reeves attacked his lack of an exit plan for his war in Iran. The US president suggested that he could change the agreement he reached with Sir Keir Starmer last year, because of Britain’s lack of support in the Middle East.

In May 2025, Britain became the first nation to agree a trade deal with the Trump administration in what was hailed as a show of the strength of UK-US ties. However, in a thinly veiled threat to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor on Wednesday, Mr Trump said: “We gave them a good trade deal – better than I had to, which can always be changed.”

The Chancellor attacked the White House on Tuesday, saying she was “very frustrated and angry” with the US president’s “folly” in going to war without an exit plan. She blamed the conflict for an expected rise in the cost of living in the coming months.

Ms Reeves will attend a crunch meeting to discuss the crisis in the Gulf with Scott Bessent, her American counterpart, at the International Monetary Fund in Washington on Wednesday. Relations between the UK and US have soured after Sir Keir refused to join Mr Trump’s war against Tehran, which began in late February. The Prime Minister has repeatedly stated that “this is not our war”.

Sir Keir delayed giving permission for British military bases to be used for defensive purposes. He declined to send British warships to help the US navy enforce its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route in the region. Britain’s 2025 deal with the US, which included a baseline tariff of 10 per cent, was lauded as a victory compared with the 15 per cent facing EU goods. Steel and aluminium imports from Britain were taxed at 25 per cent, half the rate of most other nations.

However, on Wednesday Mr Trump issued his first direct threat about the future of the agreement when asked about the state of the special relationship with the UK.

He told Sky News: “It’s the relationship where when we asked them for help, they were not there. When we needed them, they were not there. When we didn’t need them, they were not there, and they still aren’t there.” It was then put to Mr Trump that the state of the special relationship sounded “very bad”. He responded: “Well, it’s been better but it’s sad and we gave them a good trade deal – better than I had to, which can always be changed.”

In an interview on Tuesday, Ms Reeves said Mr Trump’s actions in the Middle East amounted to “a war that we did not start” and “a war that we did not want”. She told the Mirror: “I feel very frustrated and angry that the US went into this war without a clear exit plan, without a clear idea of what they were trying to achieve. And as a result, the Strait of Hormuz is now blocked.” Ms Reeves added that “to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it... I do think that is a folly”. The US has remained the UK’s largest single-country trading partner and in 2024 accounted for 17 per cent of all trade, as well as 24 per cent of exports.

Some elements of the deal have already come into force. However, the White House warned of “glitches” in the agreement in January following a rift over the deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. While Mr Trump initially supported the deal to give away the territory, which contains a joint UK-US military base, he later rejected it as an “act of stupidity”.

This week, the Commons business committee said that it was “unclear what the Economic Prosperity Deal has delivered in practice” since it was signed almost a year ago. A separate Technology and Prosperity Deal is also on hold owing to disagreements between the White House and No 10 over online safety, taxes on tech giants and free speech.

PM making ‘tragic mistakes’​

In what many will see as a further humiliation for Downing Street, Mr Trump denounced Sir Keir’s policies on migration and energy.

Tens of thousands of migrants have crossed the English Channel illegally since Labour took power in 2024, despite the Government’s pledge to crack down on small-boat crossings.

Sir Keir is also refusing to issue licences for new oil and gas fields in the North Sea because of his net zero policies. Mr Trump said: “I love your country and I would love to see it succeed. But if you have bad immigration policies and bad energy policies, you can have the worst of both... I like Starmer but I think he’s made a tragic mistake in closing the North Sea oil. You see your energy prices are the highest in the world. And I think he’s made a tragic mistake on immigration.”

Mr Trump added: “Your country is being invaded by illegal immigrants from all over the world, including those from prisons, drug dealers, people from mental institutions.” On Tuesday, the president launched a separate broadside against Sir Keir and Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary. Calling on Labour to “drill, baby, drill”, Mr Trump said it was “crazy” to cut back on exploration when the world was desperate for energy following the crisis caused by the Middle East conflict.

On Wednesday, the Government insisted that the relationship between the UK and the US was more significant than Mr Trump’s opinion on Sir Keir. Asked for his response to Mr Trump’s remarks, James Murray, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said that he had not seen his most recent comments. He told Sky: “The special relationship between the UK and the US is deep, it is long-standing. It’s bigger than any single occupant of Downing Street or the White House. And we work together with the US day in, day out on sharing intelligence, working together in military operations. This is a long-standing relationship which it is in both our interests to protect." Mr Murray added: “We need to be clear that when the Prime Minister takes decisions, that’s in our national interest in Britain... As allies, we need to respectfully sometimes disagree whilst maintaining the strength of the relationship overall.”

The frontbencher – who is Ms Reeves’s de facto deputy at the Treasury – went on to suggest that economic ties with the EU mattered just as much as the trade pact with the US. He said: “The trade deal, the trade arrangements with the US, are really important. But it’s also really important that we have trade deals with other countries – so the trade deal with India, also the EU.”

 

[F40PH]

Not sure if this has been posted yet, had a quick skim and didn't see it, they literally want to record your address if you buy a fucking kitchen knife. Have at it, Amerilards. We deserve it. ROLL OUT THE KNOIFE LOICENSE MOCKERY.

Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...d-licences-to-sell-knives-under-labour-plans/
Archive: https://archive.is/y9Som

Shops will need licence to sell knives under Labour plans
Retailers would also be required to record details of buyers and hand them over to police if requested

Shops will be required to have a licence to sell knives under plans being drawn up by the Labour Government to halve knife crime in the next 10 years.

The proposed new scheme, for both online and in-person transactions, is not expected to cover sales of cutlery but would include sharp-pointed kitchen knives, which are frequently used in killings.

Under the plans, police would be given the power to ban shops and individuals from selling knives if they breached their licence conditions, or were deemed unsuitable because of a criminal record.

Retailers would be required to record the details of anyone buying knives, which they would have to provide to the police if requested.
It would also become a criminal offence to sell or market knives without being registered.

There were 50,430 knife crimes reported to police in the 12 months to September 2025, a fall of 8.6 per cent on the previous year.
The plans are similar to the knife licensing scheme in Scotland, where those caught breaking the law face up to two years in jail.
Ministers have been considering the results of a consultation on knife licensing, with a registration fee for both businesses and private sellers among the proposals.

Sellers would be subject to background and criminal record checks by police, as with firearms licensing. There could also be inspections of premises to ensure knives were being stored safely.

Retail chains selling knives would need a licence for each of their individual stores, which would be renewed every three years.
They face being stripped of their licence if they breach the law by selling a banned weapon, committing any other criminal offence or failing to meet any conditions of their registration.

It will include sales made via anonymous social media accounts. “We are concerned that if we do not regulate second hand sales this may provide a gap in the law for unscrupulous individuals to buy knives in bulk and then sell them to those under 18 or for criminal purposes,” said the consultation.

On Monday the public inquiry into the Southport killings is due to publish its first report, which is expected to make recommendations related to the ease with which murderer Axel Rudakubana was able to obtain weapons.

The killer, who was 17 at the time, used a kitchen knife bought from Amazon to murder three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29 2024.

In the wake of the murders, ministers introduced two-step age verification for online businesses selling knives for delivery, forcing retailers to check the ID and the age of a buyer.

Other measures included a requirement for sellers to report “bulk” purchases of six or more knives.
Plans criticised as ‘unworkable and costly’

However, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) warned that such a licensing system would be unworkable and costly for rural businesses.

Bill Harriman, the association’s director, said: “Kitchen knives are the most commonly used item in homicides involving sharp instruments.
“Introducing a licensing system for sellers and importers of all knives and bladed articles ignores the obvious, uncontrollable ease of access to kitchen knives in every home in the country. These number in the hundreds of millions.”

‘My teenage son was killed by a  ninja sword. I had to fight to ban them’

Mr Harriman added: “If the Government wants to effectively tackle knife crime, it needs to reject these proposals and address the root causes of some young people using kitchen knives and other bladed items as weapons.”

A spokesman for the British Retail Consortium said: “We believe the priority should be stronger enforcement of existing rules on sales, and any licensing scheme should be practical, apply only to specific categories of knives (e.g. not everyday cutlery), and be proportionate so that legitimate sales can continue smoothly.”

 

[teriyakiburns]

The fucking BRC acquiescing to the ratchet and only asking for a slightly more lenient licensing scheme is just gravy.

This country is fucking cooked. Fuck it, I'm off to see inspector knacker about a rope license. I should be able to rope in four to six weeks if the paperwork isn't rejected.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

The fucking BRC acquiescing to the ratchet and only asking for a slightly more lenient licensing scheme is just gravy.

This country is fucking cooked. Fuck it, I'm off to see inspector knacker about a rope license. I should be able to rope in four to six weeks if the paperwork isn't rejected.

after restricting porn you'll need a loicense to shoot rope

 

[Just a boring name]

I've got to be in Sheffield this weekend, so before we need a licence for it, If anyone fancies a brew or a pint, I'll be knocking around in the city centre.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I've got to be in Sheffield this weekend, so before we need a licence for it, If anyone fancies a brew or a pint, I'll be knocking around in the city centre.

I see Prevent have rolled out their new fast-track arrest scheme

 

[Just a boring name]

I know, I know, I promise I will make sure the van is well hidden.
But I'm never going to get the chance for a very long time because of work and family obligations, and also probably never be brave enough again.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds

People are getting caught up in the scandal of people helping brownoids lie to invade britain easier.
Should not the bigger scandal be why are gays higher up the asylum pecking order than straights?
Is it because they are in higher danger in their home countries?
If so, why are we allowing homophobes to come to the British pedophIsles?