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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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Nah, we've had plenty of PM's we've hated before more than her.

She is however probably the least liked PM- even with the PM's people hate, usually there's something good people say about them, but that's not the case with May.

She's like a modern day Lord Palmerston.

...well, not THAT bad lets get serious here.
 
Sable said:
Nah, we've had plenty of PM's we've hated before more than her.

She is however probably the least liked PM- even with the PM's people hate, usually there's something good people say about them, but that's not the case with May.

She's like a modern day Lord Palmerston.

...well, not THAT bad lets get serious here.
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If there is a list of top 10 worst Tory PMs of all time, I'm sure she will be right up there in the top 4. Completely disregarding the divisive Brexit issue, what meaningful thing has she done? Run one of the worst electoral campaigns in a snap election, performing worse than expected? Got the Home Sec kicked out of office for the Windrush scandal? Had a vote of no confidence? Be completely and utterly destroyed in this vote?

Anything "good" she may have done is so sub-par and inconsequential that no one will remember it 5-10 years from now.
 
Slimy Time said:
If there is a list of top 10 worst Tory PMs of all time, I'm sure she will be right up there in the top 4. Completely disregarding the divisive Brexit issue, what meaningful thing has she done? Run one of the worst electoral campaigns in a snap election, performing worse than expected? Got the Home Sec kicked out of office for the Windrush scandal? Had a vote of no confidence? Be completely and utterly destroyed in this vote?

Anything "good" she may have done is so sub-par and inconsequential that no one will remember it 5-10 years from now.
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Danced on a stage
Had extended choking fit on a stage
 
Slimy Time said:
If there is a list of top 10 worst Tory PMs of all time, I'm sure she will be right up there in the top 4.
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I'm not disagreeing with that.

I was just pointing out that other PM's that people have hated are usually at least liked a bit and been polarizing, which isn't the case with May where I struggle to think of someone who likes her that she isn't paying.
 
Sable said:
I'm not disagreeing with that.

I was just pointing out that other PM's that people have hated are usually at least liked a bit and been polarizing, which isn't the case with May where I struggle to think of someone who likes her that she isn't paying.
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Her husband

edit: @CWCissey that Optimistic rating is savage
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
What?

Fucking what?
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To be fair, Farage's 2nd Referendum has the actual logic backing it of "Remain was rejected by the voters in 2016, so shouldn't be an option on the ballot."

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Thatcher probably moreso, considering when she died decades later "Ding Dong the Witch is dead" literally became number 1 and stayed there until the BBC decided "it was offensive".
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Thatcher is the first ever symptom of TDS/BDS. Plenty of people agree with her policies, other and usually bitter retards who refused to retain or find other work do not.

I remember when she died they had Sid Vicious in on The One Show (normally a wheat toast magazine program) and the two presenters were practically slavering away at Sid to get him to say how glad he was she was now dead. His response was very respectful instead and seemed to deflate the smug cunts.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
I remember when she died they had Sid Vicious in on The One Show (normally a wheat toast magazine program) and the two presenters were practically slavering away at Sid to get him to say how glad he was she was now dead. His response was very respectful instead and seemed to deflate the smug cunts.
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Fucking Hell when did The One Show start practising necromancy?
 
Eh. I'm not a Tory and I've got nothing nice to say about most Tory PM's. To my shame May was actually the first potential leader right at the start I thought might not be half bad. Leadersom has all the tact of a sledgehammer and has said some pretty shocking things about men working with small kids and being paedophiles, Johnson is a witless smug Etonian and Mogg is actually fairly extreme both on policy and his own religious convictions.

I'd vote for a centre-left party if Britain actually had one with a hope in hell of winning, but all Labor is these days and has been for years is an SJW circle jerk with very right economic policies who judging by Diane Abbott's counting isn't even vaguely grounded in reality.

SNP (now post-independence referendum) and Plaid Cymru are wasted votes tbh. You might as well vote Monster Loony party for all the good it would do you.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
I remember when she died they had Sid Vicious in on The One Show (normally a wheat toast magazine program) and the two presenters were practically slavering away at Sid to get him to say how glad he was she was now dead. His response was very respectful instead and seemed to deflate the smug cunts.
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Sid Vicious died 35 years before Thatcher.
 
Vote of Confidence tonight is highly unlikely to result in the government collapsing, as it reports now as both the 11 Remaniac MPs and the 100-strong ERG have both swung in to back May (because Corbyn, lol).

In other news, Department for International Trade has been told to drop anything else its been doing and focus purely on no deal planning, with some 4,000 civil servants in various departments now shunted to WTO outcome tasks.

Parliament is still cheerfully conspiring against the people though, and is likely to try and bring in legislation to stop the government from doing so.
 
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In other news, Department for International Trade has been told to drop anything else its been doing and focus purely on no deal planning, with some 4,000 civil servants in various departments now shunted to WTO outcome tasks.
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shit battle stations?
 
Now you see why most public referendums have a clause in them that once held, they cannot be invoked again for some considerable time, like in the 15 - 20 year window, specifically to prevent politicians from just stalling out implementing the results if they don't like them for 3 or so years and then calling for another one because "clearly this isn't going to work".
 
Welp, the Government survives to kick the can down the road another day. 306 MPs voted in favour of no confidence, 325 against.
 
Fuck, that was such a narrow vote - May survived by the skin of her teeth. All it would've taken to change that was if the DUP and a few rebel Tories had instead chosen to vote against May.
 
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