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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.

 

[>IMPLYING]

As funny as that would be, Lowe has said that they aren't taking any more Reform/Tory councillors to keep the party pure.

Havering to Reform. Turnout in Hackney was 41%. Tories take Westminster which is surprising because Reform was polling very high in the last few days. Does anyone know if there's a live map of councils to go and councils that have declared?

I've been mostly using the BBC's map/site.

Main issue is "no majority" and "awaiting result" share the same map colour.

Besides Great Yarmouth, I'm interested to see what the Holyrood will look like. In my head the same people who vote SNP are more or less identical to a lot of people who vote Labour where the idea of what the party is in their head doesn't match reality. The last Scottish election was in 2021, and it took until late-2024/2025 for people in England to get wise to both Labour and the Tories, so I wanna see if a similar phenomena has happened with the Scottish.

 

[JuanLee]

Does anyone else think that Starmer is doing a good job? I think that for the safety and security of the country he should remain in power until at the very least 2027. All we need to do is filter more brave assylum seekers into reform held councils and the fascist 'blip' will be no more.

I'm forever reminded of this epic tweet about Keith's skills at times like these.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Activism is also largely a left-wing phenomenon, because politics is their religion and activism is their equivalent of missionary work.

It's also an aesthetic for young people. That's why you get people being surprised the Yank/Chinese skater Alyssa Liu is actually centrist/right-centre or at least very aligned with Chinese principles. They thought her weird hair and personality = American left wing ideals

GOD is that freak Polanski actually on twitter 24/7? I saw this gent's tweet yday but now it's being screenshotted and shared around.

 

[GNU Hurder]

Cf. Stewart Lee's line about a friend of his going "Don't worry about the Brexit vote - I've just been to a gastropub in Islington, and absolutely no-one there's voting to leave..."

Aussie Josh Szeps did a podcast soon after the Brexit vote and was going on about how on the night, he was out somewhere hipster like Shoreditch and through conversations, he was sure the referendum would fail. Szeps thinks of himself as a journalist.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

emphasize potential Green/Lib Dem gains pretty obvious the narrative is going to be finding any possible thread to distract from the scale of Reform's victory.

I love a good old catch 22. On one hand the Greens might sweep and bring us one step closer to the brink. On the other hand Reform might sweep and bring us one step closer to the brink.

Reform and the Greens are just the same party at this point. They are both controlled opposition disguised as a new era of politics. I'm convinded Polanski is being a mong on purpose, there's no other option. He saw that he was getting a bit too popular with the middle class and had to say something retarded to make sure only the right demographics support him. Either that or he's so retarded he actually thought criticising two officers who just arrested a mass stabber for being too rough was a sensible idea.

I've honestly had enough at this point though. I wasn't going to vote SNP, Labour, Greens or Reform. I might have voted tory but that would have been a unionist vote in Johnnie Boy's de-facto referendum bullshit and I'm just done playing along with that.

I spoilt my vote by writing RUPERT LOWE on the candidate sheet and RESTORE BRITAIN on the regionals. Kek.

Hopefully Restore's established enough next GE for that to be an option.

 

[anklyscr]

Does anyone else think that Starmer is doing a good job? I think that for the safety and security of the country he should remain in power until at the very least 2027. All we need to do is filter more brave assylum seekers into reform held councils and the fascist 'blip' will be no more.

1. Reddit is leaking
2. STFU. I want my Warick Davis thread.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Who is winning?

 

[Oxyjen]

Who is winning?

Are Nige.

I spoilt my vote by writing RUPERT LOWE on the candidate sheet and RESTORE BRITAIN on the regionals. Kek

I hear there are a variety of tiny crackpot parties on the paper this time - several Indy splinter groups and then Advance UK and Green Independent Voice which I’d never heard of and whom Wikipedia class as “far right holocaust deniers” lol

GOD is that freak Polanski actually on twitter 24/7?

I get the entirety of my UK news from the private eye podcast (and this thread) and they pointed out that he’s on *bluesky* 24/7 too. Maybe he’s got AI clones

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

This is why I now assume places like Reddit and TikTok are just botted to death. They're definitely swamped with genuine leftists, but I think the magnitude of engagement is inflated by bots and it doesn't even have to be left-wing actors doing the botting; tiktok/reddit, the activists and the owner of the post all have massive incentives to inflate engagement, it's a symbiosis and I think you see similar shit on twitter with right-wing accounts. There is also probably some foreign subversion going on, as we saw with pro-indy "Scottish" accounts.

Activism is also largely a left-wing phenomenon, because politics is their religion and activism is their equivalent of missionary work.

Yes, there are bots, but left-wing ideology is much less diverse than the right, basically all lefties are unified on topics like migration or lgbt issues, the algo is going to be mostly showing them all the same posts and that means you get random shitlib talking points with 100,000's of likes.

But you're right about calling left-wingers a religion. Progressivism has a lot of the same mythos of religion, like founding myths(WW2), paths to salvation, sins and a utopian end goal as a reward for your devotion. And like religion, it's not susceptible to fail like an ideology, failures don't allow these people to reflect, because they genuinely believe they just need to keep trying, because they want their utopian world. And that's what makes progressivism so dangerous, they won't listen to facts if they contradict their ideology. It's basically impossible to convert these people.

 

[Lazy Drei]

Greens you say?
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>ACKworth

You cannot make this shit up, the UK has a place called 'Troon' and now Ackworth?

My fucking sides are in orbit!

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I get the entirety of my UK news from the private eye podcast (and this thread) and they pointed out that he’s on *bluesky* 24/7 too.

Jesus wept. Dont get me wrong, I'm always looking at cat memes and Japanese tweets, but he's supposed to be the leader of a party...


Muslim violence during the election in Oldham (1) Article from the Critic.

It’s not often you cover a local election campaign from the leadership hopeful’s Ferrari while he plays rap diss tracks about his councillor rivals and gives you an unsolicited tour of his property empire.

During the election count in Oldham, members of the Muslim-first Oldham Group rushed outside the building to find the leader’s Ferrari smashed up. There is a high attrition rate of local politicians’ cars in this town.

Oh and semi related but PoliticsUK has confirmed he's a fucking Reform candidate for Marshalls and Rise Park ward in London. These are his vote predictions from last night

RFM: 1,580 (+1,580)
LDM: 950 (+286)
LAB: 941 (-1,597)
CON: 572 (-631)
GRN: 503 (+344)
️ INDP: 213 (-102)
️ MUSLIM INDP: 208 (+177)

 

[Vesperus]

I think the biggest problem with the Greens is that they're essentially only really big in pockets in the South

Hmm.

I think the biggest problem with the Greens is, that they are all witless subhumans, but if the opposition is Kier Starmer, then I must remind Mrs Vesperus to water my mushroom logs.

Huh

I was going somewhere with this train of thought, but I'll settle for breakfast.

 

[Oxyjen]

Hmm.

I think the biggest problem with the Greens is, that they are all witless subhumans, but if the opposition is Kier Starmer, then I must remind Mrs Vesperus to water my mushroom logs.

Huh

I was going somewhere with this train of thought, but I'll settle for breakfast.

Green candidate just won Hackney Mayor. “Not supporting genocide” mentioned in the speech. Muslim block vote theory bros…

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

What the fuck is going on over at Reddit right now, I went over to UKpolitics looking for some delectable salt from them, and they're mostly now awake to the muslim demographics replacement.
What the fuck.
How has this happened? They were supposed to be suicidally unobservant, but I guess it really is that bad.

 

[soulless guarantee]

A fun little game to while away the time while waiting for results (and skiving off work): https://guesstheparty.co.uk/

Shows a photo of a candidate and you guess which party they are from. Pro-tip: if you see a brown person, just click reform - it's correct far too often.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Does anyone else think that Starmer is doing a good job? I think that for the safety and security of the country he should remain in power until at the very least 2027. All we need to do is filter more brave assylum seekers into reform held councils and the fascist 'blip' will be no more.

Yes, it would truly plunge the country into chaos if he resigned. I, for one, am glad he's decided not to walk away in light of this historic defeat.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

What the fuck is going on over at Reddit right now, I went over to UKpolitics looking for some delectable salt from them, and they're mostly now awake to the muslim demographics replacement.
What the fuck.
How has this happened? They were supposed to be suicidally unobservant, but I guess it really is that bad.

UKPolitics or BritPolitics? If you have links please share
I only found some retard on UkPolitics saying

[Reform] By successfully weaponising national issues and discontent they’ve achieved a remarkable bait and switch: in effect gaining a mandate for further austerity in local government.

what the fucking mumbo jumbo is this. Successfully weaponised national issues? You can't weaponise a national issue, something can only be weaponised (politicised) if it it NOT already an issue. What bait and switch? Hiring a shit ton of browns instead of British people? This is the most retarded sentence I've ever heard

 

[Snackbarism]

If only ballot papers had a "none of the above" option. It certainly would have won in certain areas.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

UKPolitics or BritPolitics? If you have links please share
I only found some retard on UkPolitics saying

what the fucking mumbo jumbo is this. Successfully weaponised national issues? You can't weaponise a national issue, something can only be weaponised (politicised) if it it NOT already an issue. What bait and switch? Hiring a shit ton of browns instead of British people? This is the most retarded sentence I've ever heard

This thread about trying to make out Reform as anti-semites had this:

Exactly, I made a comment a few months ago when people were saying "umm why don't people talk about kosher as much as halal". The Jewish population has been about 1% for hundreds of years and there is no conceivable way it will change now, there's no scenario where my small Scottish town within my lifetime goes from 0% Jewish to 40% and every food shop is kosher specific and likewise with other visible cultural changes.


But it's objectively what has happened in dozens of towns all across England in the past 50 years with Islam.

With 49 updoots. Naturally there are still braindead redditors going "DO YOU HAVE A SOURCE? I DON'T NOTICE ANYTHING" in response but for a post to have a positive karma ratio despite pointing that out is incredible progress for them. Just keep looking, the fact that Reddit is now nooooticing at all is truly monumental stuff. Never in my life did I think I'd see that. I think the Jew + Muslim debate must do something to shut down their programming at this point.

 

[Vesperus]

Green candidate just won Hackney Mayor. “Not supporting genocide” mentioned in the speech. Muslim block vote theory bros…

Reconquista bros, represent!