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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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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.

 

[Quintex96]

It took my sister 8 weeks of logging in every Monday at 5:55am to get a test. She had 18k people in front of her in the queue one week. She got her test last week and the test is in November.
The DVLA are aware of bots and jeets reselling tests at double the price but are doing fuck all.

The new regulations have actually made it even worse. I was fortunate enough to be one of the last ones to pass before the regulations changed but stopping instructors booking tests for their students is fucking retarded. I still chat to my instructor and this change has fucked him big time as this change coincided with one of the nearby test centers closing down. He is now stuck with about 20 test ready students that cannot get a test and a waiting list of newbies that grows by the day as he cannot take any of them on.

 

[diroama]

Why is it so important for instructors to be able to book tests for their students? Is it just because it means they can fit their lessons for others around them?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

The regulations are never going to work, because they aren't targeted. It's really as simple as that. They won't put into law that you cannot be a foreigner and also work here, so that's that. You're always just firing around the target, never at the target.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Why is it so important for instructors to be able to book tests for their students? Is it just because it means they can fit their lessons for others around them?

I'm guessing because most students would need to use the instructor's car to do the test in. No good booking a slot and then the car isn't available at that time. And the one who knows when the car is available is the instructor, right?

 

[evrae]

This thing may look like a mutant grasshopper but it weighs 190lbs plus rider and can go 35mph which is a lot more than a pedal bike. If it hits you, it wont be fun.

I've also known that engine refits/tuning is relatively easy to do*. My dad would do it to soup up his moped from like 50cc (its default) to 150cc or so by replacing with a way stronger engine. You'll never notice it's modded until it shoots off like a rocket especially with the much lighter bodywork.

CBT is the loophole of course, has been for a few decades now. You can say a full license should be required but I doubt these places that use uberjeets even bothers to check for such. I doubt they even check if the rider even has a license at all, banned one or otherwise.

*For a whitey, I doubt uberjeets riders know how to do even an oil change.

I'm guessing because most students would need to use the instructor's car to do the test in. No good booking a slot and then the car isn't available at that time. And the one who knows when the car is available is the instructor, right?

True, most use the instructor's car due to all the additional safety shit needed. Plus if only instructors and such could book it, it means that the instructors are the ones who dictate the overall demand for tests (rather than jeets getting all the slots to resell them).

 

[Quintex96]

Why is it so important for instructors to be able to book tests for their students? Is it just because it means they can fit their lessons for others around them?

Use of car is the main point, the other issue is that the instructor would book the test when he felt you were ready. Now you have to book the test ASAP and hope to god you are ready when it rolls round and nothing goes wrong because given the current wait times you have 2 maybe 3 attempts before you have to do your theory again and eat another mandatory 6 months wait.

 

[cancelmysubscription]

Sargon's favourite Jess Phillips has resigned as a junior minister.

She is one of the absolute worst.

There is a video - if anyone can find it - of this total scumbag barking at some garden variety muzzie that he’s ’making islam look bad’ while he’s outside a school protesting LGBT shit being taught.

There is no better example of a lefty, mask-off ‘don’t give the game away!’ moment than that.

She also split the victims of the paki gang enquiry by managing to successfully ‘not all paki’ some of them.

I would have her up for treason within the first second of ascending to office. Despicable person.

 

[diroama]

Use of car is the main point, the other issue is that the instructor would book the test when he felt you were ready. Now you have to book the test ASAP and hope to god you are ready when it rolls round and nothing goes wrong because given the current wait times you have 2 maybe 3 attempts before you have to do your theory again and eat another mandatory 6 months wait.

It's a shame they couldn't do something smarter say, allow a provisional license holder to delegate authority to an individual to book one test in their name.

That would ensure instructors could keep doing this without allowing scalpers to hoover up all the slots.

 

[Amin Yasister]

While we're complaining about this, I've noticed that 90% of Uberjeets delivery drivers are razzing around on mopeds with L plates. They clearly don't know how to ride a moped properly and are taking advantage of some loophole where you're allowed to ride a moped while "learning" for a test they never intend to take.

There's an obvious solution of at least banning these guys from being delivery drivers (i.e. riding a moped as their job) until they've actually passed a test. Please fix it for me Rupert.

I wonder how many actually have any kind of licence or insurance?

And what I hear from contacts in the trade in London is those that do have insurance scam the insurers with fake accidents and made up bike thefts.

 

[diroama]

This might ruffle some feathers in this thread but: I do not care for Jess Phillips.

 

[Betonhaus]

The point for Labour is that it rids them of an obvious focus of voter anger. Starmer has been fucking things up for the party since he stepped into office, and despite all the fawning questions the backbenchers ask him at PMQs, and all the public support they give him, enough of the PLP is aware of how damaging he is to realise that he's guaranteeing they're out at the next election. They'll be thinking get rid of Starmer, replace him with someone less ideologically driven, and start trying to compromise with the voters so they can maybe keep some seats.

The point for everyone else is that Starmer is personally driving the country over a cliff. They're thinking if they get rid of him, he might be replaced with someone more reasonable, because it's hard for him to be replaced by someone less reasonable.

Regardless of what happens, I suspect the current session is going to be a complete farce and very little new legislation will get passed before it ends. MPs can hold things up in committees without actively opposing them, as a way to gain some leverage against Starmer. The upper house is almost certainly going to delay every bill passing through.

It's a tactic that worked disturbingly well for the leafs. Trudeau was a completely hated PM and the Liberals were set to be destroyed, then he stepped own and they swooped in Carney and they won the next election because the Conservatives based the platform on attacking Trudeau and had nothing left.

Granted they are backwater provincials so it might be more effective with them then in the UK.

 

[AssignedEva]

It's a tactic that worked disturbingly well for the leafs. Trudeau was a completely hated PM and the Liberals were set to be destroyed, then he stepped own and they swooped in Carney and they won the next election because the Conservatives based the platform on attacking Trudeau and had nothing left.

Granted they are backwater provincials so it might be more effective with them then in the UK.

There's the other element that Pierre Poilievre had sort of tried to position himself as Canada Trump, but then the election came right as Trump started sanctioning them and saying he wanted to make Canada the 51st state, which pissed the Canadians off no end and so they voted Liberal as the biggest opposition to Trump.
Might not be so relevant here, Farage has rightfully been mocked as trying and failing to be Trump's failed lapdog yet Reform did well in the locals, but then the locals aren't necessarily representative of a General Election.

 

[Smyrna]

The minister resignation count ticks up to 4 (Zubir Ahmed, junior Health minister).

The Daily Star have now broken out the lettuce.

 

[whatever I feel like]

He's not going anywhere, he's the kapparot chicken for the entire political establishment at this point, and he has a LOT more sin to eat, they wouldn't let him quit if he wanted to. the only ones retarded enough to break this delicate stasis are the lefties, and they might just fucking do it, but until they do queer isn't going.

*cough* cough* Sure thing, bro.

 

[mingo mongo]

The minister resignation count ticks up to 4 (Zubir Ahmed, junior Health minister).

The Daily Star have now broken out the lettuce.

What the fuck is a Zubir Ahmed

 

[Betonhaus]

What the fuck is a Zubir Ahmed

I think it's a type of cucumber?

 

[Thomas Talus]

Other possibilities, although less likely because they'd be behind this lot in the queue:
Rachel Reeves - lol
David Lammy - lol
Lucy Powell - deputy leader but pretty much a no-name
Bridget Phillipson - runner up deputy leader, more of a shot, but she's linked to Lord Alli so it'd be more of the same
Shabana Mahmood - honestly could have a shot, part of the Blue Labour brigade so would support a centrist approach, but also brown and pro-Palestine, that could play well with membership factions
Yvette Cooper - maybe if they want to try and resurrect the Blair years but then they'd probably go Darren Jones
Jess Phillips/Lisa Nandy/Emily Thornberry - maybe if they're searching down the back of the sofa for a candidate
Or WILDCARD, Al Carns, has only been an MP since 2024 but is ex-special forces, literally climbed Everest last year and is a bit of a rising star, although I cannot imagine he'd put himself forward.

What about Miliband? It seems like the cardinal rule of stories about Labo(u)r is that if Ed Miliband isn't directly quoted in the article, everyone should be asking "where is Ed Miliband on this issue?".

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

On Tuesday, Reform UK exclusively confirmed to LBC that newly-elected Sunderland councillor Glenn Gibbins has been suspended over a now-deleted social media post in which he called for Nigerians to be used to fill potholes. The party had previously confirmed that the party was looking into Mr Gibbins comments, with a spokesperson confirming to LBC on Tuesday that he "has been suspended pending investigation".

Fucking clown car of a democracy we have, whether local or national. And they wonder why so many people don’t vote.

I wonder how many actually have any kind of licence or insurance?

And what I hear from contacts in the trade in London is those that do have insurance scam the insurers with fake accidents and made up bike thefts.

Be careful what you wish for. The fuckers will be out on electric wheelchair scooter things if their regular transport options are fucked. They’re bad enough with fat old people on them, never mind angry immigrants with five pizzas to deliver.

What the fuck is a Zubir Ahmed

Sounds like the noise my Nan used to make first thing in the morning, in between her first cup of tea and her first fag. She coughed up quite a lot at that time of day, I seem to remember.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

https://x.com/BovrilG/status/2053972923103269075

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Starmer's tactics seems to be to crash the plane with no survivors, except he jumps out with a parachute DB Cooper style and rebuilds the party with his mates.
Or, he has convinced the rats to jump off of a ship that his is pretending to sink, and when they've done, he will load it with people who back him.
Pick your own aero and/or nautical adventure.