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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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Otterly said:
People underestimate how fast you can slip, and get dragged under and how fast you’ll die in such water.
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I have Irish family that work the trawlers., lost a cousin in the North Sea about 15 years ago. Even with a survival suit you've only got minutes to be pulled out in order to survive. I've always had a healthy fear and respect for any tidal waters. Our family history is dotted with deaths at sea going back centuries. It baffles me that people in an island nation can be so cavalier about the briny deeps.

XYZpdq Jr. said:
maybe he's a fan of the old The Goon Show?
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He's fallen in the water!
 
When Burnham last attempted to secure a parliamentary constituency he wasnt selected, supposedly because he's already an elected Mayor. Is there any reason to assume the same wouldn't happen a second time?
 
Bill Evans 45 said:
:lol: I have Irish family that work the trawlers., lost a cousin in the North Sea about 15 years ago. Even with a survival suit you've only got minutes to be pulled out in order to survive. I've always had a healthy fear and respect for any tidal waters. Our family history is dotted with deaths at sea going back centuries. It baffles me that people in an island nation can be so cavalier about the briny deeps.
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Fucking hell mate, that’s a hard, hard job. Unless you’ve lived in a coastal fishing town, most people have no clue just how difficult fishing is as a job. The mental image is of a bloke who looks like Santa in a knitted jumper, pulling in a net full of fish all by himself on a sunny day, then setting off home again happily. Couldn’t be further from the truth really.

I knew a bloke who worked as a deep sea welder on the oil rigs. He was only allowed to work a few months a year due to the physical strain on the body. Bloke as fit as a fiddle yet the health checks he had to have for his work would’ve made a munchie blush. Mostly for nowt, because one wrong move while he was down in the sea and him and all his colleagues would be a fine red mist in the water.

Fishing and working on the oil rigs has to be one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.K. (of the few fucking jobs we have left). Mining used to be another, but we all know what happened there.

Speaking of which…

Snekposter said:
That dude's name always throws me for a loop.
https://witcher-games.fandom.com/wiki/Iorweth
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Welsh looks like someone fell asleep on the keyboard, and the people sound much the same. It’s the polar opposite to the Glaswegian accent, where even the Hail Mary sounds like a death threat. Some bloke going off on one in a pub in a Welsh accent sounds like he’s reciting nursery rhymes at you. I’ve no doubt that Welsh gangsters exist, but listening to them kicking off must be fucking hilarious. Just reminds me of my nan shaking her fist and going “I’LL FLATTEN YOU!”
 
Saw retards in instagram comments saying 'I like Kemi, Rupert should let her join Restore' after her performance at the dispatch yday. Jesus Christ.

GB Politics estimates 750,000 people will attend the march on Saturday. I swear that Robinson has had so many marches and fuck all has happened. Anyway Muslims on twitter are gloating about 'Muslims controlling the Home Office' and banning all his speakers, which is probs very likely and giving me the heebie-jeebies for how fucked we are. I don't think anything will happen at the rally, like all his other marches/honey pots, but it will be beautiful if the leadership challenge and the anti-immigration 'Unite the Union' or whatever it's called happen on the same day while Labour still acts clueless about why people hate them. It's like pottery.
 
A chunk of the Cabinet is expected to visit Starmer this afternoon to again try and persuade him to set a timetable. They are hoping that the intervention of the unions yesterday will change his mind. Some MPs who were listed on the pro-Starmer letter on Tuesday may also turn on him to try and force a reaction.
 
Smyrna said:
A chunk of the Cabinet is expected to visit Starmer this afternoon to again try and persuade him to set a timetable. They are hoping that the intervention of the unions yesterday will change his mind. Some MPs who were listed on the pro-Starmer letter on Tuesday may also turn on him to try and force a reaction.
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Starmer is not the best at taking a hint. Maybe we need to bring back Spitting Image to give him a nudge:



At least by the time they did Thatcher in, she'd unarguably made her mark and assured her place in history. I struggle to think what Starmer's achievements are. Or even notable moments.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
GB Politics estimates 750,000 people will attend the march on Saturday.
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If I'm Kier I'm resigning before this protest because my gut feeling is that a cuzzie is gonna drive a car into it or start shooting. It has everything required for a white hot summer of violence and everyone saw how big the last Tommy protest was. It's probably the largest target bar a world cup final.

IF everything is completely fine and nothing happens then it still stands to be the definitive picture of the Starmer era: police completely fucking overwhelmed in every direction by a sea of protesters.
 
Smyrna said:
A chunk of the Cabinet is expected to visit Starmer this afternoon to again try and persuade him to set a timetable. They are hoping that the intervention of the unions yesterday will change his mind. Some MPs who were listed on the pro-Starmer letter on Tuesday may also turn on him to try and force a reaction.
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I suspect what's happening here is that Streeting assumed Starmer would step down, and he'd be able to sweep the leadership election off the back of "I'm the one that got Starmer to step down!".

Instead Starmer is adopting a "back me or sack me" approach. The only way to topple him is to trigger a leadership election that he may choose to run in. In that scenario, Streeting is probably going to lose and may be struggling to find 81 MPs to support his leadership bid (because if Starmer wins they'd be relegated to the back benches for backing an opponent).
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
If I'm Kier I'm resigning before this protest because my gut feeling is that a cuzzie is gonna drive a car into it or start shooting. It has everything required for a white hot summer of violence and everyone saw how big the last Tommy protest was. It's probably the largest target bar a world cup final.

IF everything is completely fine and nothing happens then it still stands to be the definitive picture of the Starmer era: police completely fucking overwhelmed in every direction by a sea of protesters.
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A van of peace at the UTK march will give starmer 1. A raging hard on because he loathes white people 2. Carte blanche and a justification to force through stuff he's frothing at gash over. He can blame the big bad nasty far right.
 
I don't entirely believe in the concept of 'false flagging' (mostly because everyone and their mother claims false flag for every incident that happens nowadays) but I would not be surprised if certain agitators were allowed to go and cause trouble. It would also give Keir reason to stay on as leader for a strong and stable government or whatever the saying was. It's been too cold these last few days for a real hot summer (Southport riots, when I had to buy a fan it was that fucking hot) and there's rain forecast. The antics of the Dutch protestors recently (burning down a school that was supposed to house migrants) as well as the French police do make me think we are reaching 'when, not if' territory.

Wes's letter. The faggot got out sassed by Kween Kemi at the dispatch over his pathetic little leadership challenge, lmfao.
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