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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.

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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Controversial scenes erupted as counter-protesters sparked outrage with chants including: “Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk.”The footage has gone viral online, with many condemning the rhetoric and arguing the counter-protest became just as controversial as the demonstration itself.

Wonder when our Two Tier PM is going to do something about this ? Who are the thugs again ?

Despite their thugish intentions, I still don't see one there that could punch their way out of a wet paper bag.
One thing I would challenge her on in her conclusion is specifically calling out "Palestine" as one of the issues dividing the protests. I am fairly nationalist. I am not in favour of Israel's aggressive expansionism and treatment of Palestinians. Views on amongst the UTK protestors are going to be all over the place on that issue. It's orthogonal to being against mass uncontrolled immigration or against grooming gangs.

I know it's literally just because it's bullshit reddit logic wanting to be part of le new thingé but the palestine flags are just so fucking retarded. You bring a palestine flag to a counter protest which to me that says that you think the counter of that counter protest is pro israel which literally no one in that crowd other than fucking yannon laxey will give a shit about. It's just showing how fucking retarded these people are. Literally the twitter waffles meme but irl. You are fucking schizophrenic arguing with the voices in your head. Yea I'm going to show up to one of those protests with a Holy Roman Empire flag because I think that the liberals are slandering Frundsberg?
I agree but I would say it's not just because of bullshit Reddit logic. I have a feeling it is deliberately stage-managed to try and push anti- mass migration people into one political box that can be disparaged and unified against. It's not just limited thinking but deliberately pushed. I saw it in the Daily Mail with the same angle - casting Palestine as some dividing issue. You're spot on saying that Tommy is fine with it, though. He's very much coaxed by Israeli handlers friends, imo.
 
One thing I would challenge her on in her conclusion is specifically calling out "Palestine" as one of the issues dividing the protests. I am fairly nationalist. I am not in favour of Israel's aggressive expansionism and treatment of Palestinians. Views on amongst the UTK protestors are going to be all over the place on that issue. It's orthogonal to being against mass uncontrolled immigration or against grooming gangs.
I very much enjoy, whenever a friend-of-a-friend brings up how they support Palestine, to sigh in relief and go 'finally! another nationalist, of course I support the rights of any nation to self determination : )' and watch them squirm and wriggle their way out of the dreaded no-no word Nationalist; all nations are entitled to their land and to be governed by themselves! of course! how is that not nationalism? you are a nationalist! I also like to ask their views on the Tuareg and Basques, or Sami, or Welsh. I'm also enjoying the Labour Party's current 'nationalising the rails' program and Andy's plans to nationalist water and housing, while conspicously ignoring the other principles of nationalism.
Femboy is right in saying that Palestine is just le new thing, none of these people could give a description for any of the political ideologies they claim to support or even name leaders like Sinwar or al-Haddad. It's just trendy, it's the shut-in weirdos version of dubai chocolate and K-Pop Demon Hunters. Just another thing to pad the hours and make you cool.

Speaking of Andy, Streeting says hes going to be door knocking day after day for him. Someone wants in on Andy's winnings
 
Femboy is right in saying that Palestine is just le new thing, none of these people could give a description for any of the political ideologies they claim to support or even name leaders like Sinwar or al-Haddad. It's just trendy, it's the shut-in weirdos version of dubai chocolate and K-Pop Demon Hunters. Just another thing to pad the hours and make you cool.
I dunno, I don't remember foreign councillors being elected en masse by followers of a foreign religion by promising to feed into whatever the trendy thing used to be before free plastecine.

I suppose you could argue that Communism was the old trendy thing, but that hardly seems as insidious as what this palestine stuff represents.
 
you are a nationalist!
I always do this too, it’s hilarious, and if I realllly want to labour the point I look very sad and start talking about Tibet.
You never really hear much about Tibet these days do you? Etc.

as for Palestine. I dont particularly like seeing kids get bombed, whether they’re black, white or brown.I didn’t like seeing Israeli kids get gunned down either on oct 7th. I’d rather each group had their own territory, with self determination and in an ideal world (very kumbaya I know, pass the rainbows) they would be allowed self determination free of aggression from other states. However Palestine is a long way away and I dont see it as a pressing British issue - not my circus, not my monkeys.

The Sami, by the way, have been heavily woked- they get their subsidies and land and what have you but they absolutely will not touch the ‘well you’re a bit white….’ Thing with a barge pole. They are a fairly small group and very much in lockstep with the woke stuff, it seems to me they are SO in line with it that a few of their big influencers have been co opted somehow to close off any way they could be used as a ‘white indigenous group.’
 
Lol, imagine being Kier now. Everyone's talking as if he's already left office. The conversation isn't whether he should leave, it's already moved past that, onto who should replace him.

It's going to be so awkward. Why should anyone work with him? They'll want to talk to the next guy. Is every PMQs just going to be Kemi asking "Why haven't you gone already?".
 
Lol, imagine being Kier now. Everyone's talking as if he's already left office. The conversation isn't whether he should leave, it's already moved past that, onto who should replace him.

It's going to be so awkward. Why should anyone work with him? They'll want to talk to the next guy. Is every PMQs just going to be Kemi asking "Why haven't you gone already?".
Opening PMQs....
"Are you STILL here ? You're like a turd that won't flush."
 
Lol, imagine being Kier now. Everyone's talking as if he's already left office. The conversation isn't whether he should leave, it's already moved past that, onto who should replace him.

It's going to be so awkward. Why should anyone work with him? They'll want to talk to the next guy. Is every PMQs just going to be Kemi asking "Why haven't you gone already?".
It does make me wonder how history will look back upon the Starmer years. It’s impressive how he has managed to destroy Labour so thoroughly in just 2 years.
 
I dunno, I don't remember foreign councillors being elected en masse by followers of a foreign religion by promising to feed into whatever the trendy thing used to be before free plastecine.

I suppose you could argue that Communism was the old trendy thing, but that hardly seems as insidious as what this palestine stuff represents.
I meant to clarify that it is trendy among young (leftist) Brits. They don't understand what 'globalise the intifada' even means, or Zionism (Israel's original founding political party was Marxist, hence all the kibbutz) or anything else they claim to support. Any Palestine supporter in the UK is almost always also 'autistic' or some kind of disabled, 'gay', young, and comes almost exclusively from fandom or 'alternative' online spaces. Supporting Palestine is the 'cool' thing for these people.
The nefarious cabal of brownoids seeking to overtake the country have used them as useful idiots to get into the Green Party. Sort of 'right place right time'; the post Occupy left focus on race/ethnicity and social media political 'discourse', (as well as blacks now being 'uncool') have given the Muslims the perfect parasitic opportunity.
as for Palestine. I dont particularly like seeing kids get bombed, whether they’re black, white or brown.I didn’t like seeing Israeli kids get gunned down either on oct 7th. I’d rather each group had their own territory, with self determination and in an ideal world (very kumbaya I know, pass the rainbows) they would be allowed self determination free of aggression from other states. However Palestine is a long way away and I dont see it as a pressing British issue - not my circus, not my monkeys.

The Sami, by the way, have been heavily woked- they get their subsidies and land and what have you but they absolutely will not touch the ‘well you’re a bit white….’ Thing with a barge pole. They are a fairly small group and very much in lockstep with the woke stuff, it seems to me they are SO in line with it that a few of their big influencers have been co opted somehow to close off any way they could be used as a ‘white indigenous group.’
The Green Party's official Palestine/Israel solution is the two state solution (unless they have changed it after taking the migration page down) which is extremely Haram to most Palestine supporters; Polanski's Greens also believe that all nations are fake and gay and borders should not exist (so why even bother publishing a solution, I ask). Either way, it is not a pressing British issue beyond perhaps giving the runways over if the Yanks ever decide to finally nuke everything from the Golan Heights to Islamabad off the face of the earth.
The Sami get labelled 'Europe's only Indigenous group', because 'indigenous' means having some kind of special spiritual connection to the land now (which means driving snowmobiles everywhere and playing radios at full volume in the forest). The Basque get upset about them being the only indigenous group iirc, but most Basque nationalists are also cucked because they fell out of favour after killing a bunch of Basque children and journalists and now the only pro-Basques are weirdo tranny commies. Anyway, never ask the Sami what they did in WW2. They like to claim they were forced to.
basque edit because its funny; the basque 'antifa' in Errekalor have been getting into armed fights with an influx of north african migrants who they claim the police are sending as 'fascist agitators'. The antifa now face claims of hypocrisy for treating the housing as private property after defending it. lmfao (X)
 
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Polanski's Greens also believe that all nations are fake and gay and borders should not exist (so why even bother publishing a solution, I ask).
I bet they lock their doors at night though.

And yes, the Sami aren’t quite what people think they are. They’ve actually been on the land in some parts of northern scandiwegia for LESS time than the regular inhabitants. Snowmobiles for all though!
 
It does make me wonder how history will look back upon the Starmer years. It’s impressive how he has managed to destroy Labour so thoroughly in just 2 years.
A controversial take but I think history will be kinder to him than people are today. Because in the longer context of the historical view he will be seen not as an individual disaster, but simply the tail end of a longer drawn out disaster. A last Roman Emperor long into the decline if you will, a man who got handed a hot potato and didn't know what to do with it.

Because whilst he is certainly a failure, I'm not sure anyone else would have been a success. We live in a democracy (of a kind) and democracies are bad at taking the painful, corrective action that would be required to turn this nation around. Decades of under-investment in infrastructure, £3trn in national debt, an education system that was sabotaged in the Sixties and has only gotten worse. All against a backdrop of a rising and modernising rest of the globe. He's useless, but the trajectory didn't begin with him.

So we look at him and see an incompetent jobsworth. But I think history will view him as just one single "wah" in the ongoing sad trombone' "wah wah wah wahhh".
 
It does make me wonder how history will look back upon the Starmer years. It’s impressive how he has managed to destroy Labour so thoroughly in just 2 years.
He killed any way it can continue by filling it with Fabians and WEFs, making it die on the vine. To murder a party so quickly is commendable. The Conservatives are equally fucked and in the same situation. Kemi is not even that bad, but the Overturn has shifted so quickly that the public will not accept her.
 
I love the way this article tries to dance around the arrests and paint the Unite rally as so much more of a problem than the other one.

The Metropolitan Police is investigating alleged hate crimes at both major protests in London as officers are still searching for seven suspects from the pro-Palestine Nakba Day rally.

About 60,000 people are estimated to have joined Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march on Saturday, and between 15,000 and 20,000 attended the Nakba Day rally, the Met said.

A total of 43 arrests were made, 20 were linked to the Unite the Kingdom protest, while 12 were affiliated with the Nakba protest, the force added.
3-4 times the size, more harshly policed, facial recognition software used and yet still more arrests proportionally for the Nakba lot.
Four officers were assaulted on Saturday and six were subjected to hate crime offences, the force said in a post on X on Saturday evening.

There were arrests for 11 hate crime related offences. Of those arrested two were allegedly affiliated to the Nakba Day rally and nine to Unite the Kingdom, police said.
9 and 2, looks like the Unite one is more racist-
A further seven hate crime offences remain under investigation with outstanding suspects. All are from the Nakba Day protest.
Oh wait, as many were arrested from the other protest. The Met are just trying to work out how to let go people brandishing, "gas the kikes" banners to ensure they do not have equivalent arrests to the other rally from the one a quarter to a third of the size.
Three arrests were as a result of the use of live facial recognition, the Met added. All three were people wanted for failing to appear at court. None were affiliated to the protests taking place the same day.
Strange, I'm pretty certain I saw earlier articles claiming arrests using facial recognition that were all tied to Unite.
Organisers of the pro-Palestine rally estimated at least a quarter of a million people attended.
And my penis is enormous saar.
 
Controversial scenes erupted as counter-protesters sparked outrage with chants including: “Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk.”The footage has gone viral online, with many condemning the rhetoric and arguing the counter-protest became just as controversial as the demonstration itself.
Hope all of these "people" get gangraped to death by their beloved muslims.
 
But there’s clearly a huge groundswell of support for the general idea of getting things back a bit more like how they were - what will happen when someone genuinely able to speak, hold a crowd and with sufficient t self control comes along? If the state doesn’t sniff them out, they will gain a very large following
I’d prefer it to go back to how it used to be where a pub would get a nod from the police if no one would be arrested if a wrong un got what he deserved.
 
I think Restore will win Makersfield quite comfortably; my reasons are somewhat connected to the locals.;
  1. So I think this will be the core reason for victory. In polling after the Reform voters said they voted for Reform because no other alternative was LISTED. Key word listed.
  2. Makersfield is overwhelmingly white, 96% they voted Leave, Reform did well. Their demographic if largely middle aged not boomers, and 49% male and 51% female.
  3. Ground game, Restore have a really good ground game, Reform don't. One of their key complaints is that they poorly mobolize.
  4. Farage and the 5 million affecting his popularity. Even Reform people do not like voting for Farage. On top of that I have the feeling they will put Zia Yusef in this seat. Let them, he will get pummeled along with Burnham. Reform keep putting up the wrong candidates and never learn. If they run Zia it will fuck them over so bad.
I'm taking your hope-pill, mister! Total Restore Victory from here on out!
 
I'm taking your hope-pill, mister! Total Restore Victory from here on out!
It's kind of a pickle. Restore could end up badly splitting the anti-establishment parties vote the next election and the UK gets some disgusting stop light coalition government like Germany. But backing Reform, they win and then screw it up, as they most likely will, hurts Restore. It wouldn't be a clean transition of Reform voters go en masse to Restore and then next time Restore wins
 
It's kind of a pickle. Restore could end up badly splitting the anti-establishment parties vote the next election and the UK gets some disgusting stop light coalition government like Germany. But backing Reform, they win and then screw it up, as they most likely will, hurts Restore. It wouldn't be a clean transition of Reform voters go en masse to Restore and then next time Restore wins
I think it was another poster here who said the second best outcome is Andy wins, Labour is revitalised, and Britain rejoins the EU just as the AfD and RN take over EU Politics. Yeah Modi seems determined to get more jeets into Sweden and Holland but jeet fatigue is growing everywhere, the Dutch are still dealing with the protests and the asylum accommodation being burnt down in Loosdretch, the Italians just got car-of-peaced, and the Chișinău declaration was just signed. Take the hope pill
 
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