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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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Bassomatic said:
Normally in war you win over your enemies and show respect. But these are sand niggers from ISIS. Scare the crap out of em, punisher skulls pokemon or what ever they hate should not just be allowed but mandatory.

I kinda understand why since we (western powers) are still on the winning hearts and mind idea, but the people were are fighting are proving that's not possible or worth while so who cares if we look edgy doing it we have to drive them out like rats.
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If you want to scare the crap out of ISIS replace the Punisher skull with a strong independant womyn.

But for reals...you're Britons. Show some of that old Imperial charm, Hope and Glory!
 
KerryDixon9 said:
They shouldn't be wasting their time thinking of cheeky ways around this. They should simply tell whoever gave them this order to fuck off and never waste their time again.

I agree totally with people who think cops shouldn't be allowed to go around with stickers and badges like these. Cops interact with the public all the time and this image is totally wrong for the job. But whichever cunt is trying to tell SAS members what badges they can and cannot wear needs to be removed from their position.
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Just weart it anyway, they cant fire the whole SAS(well they can but that wouold mean the end of the SAS and those guys could find good jobs easyly)
 
CWCissey said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47245992

FUCKING RESIGN THERESA.
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Unlikely. You know how she went on about being a bloody difficult woman? This is it. If only she was this bloody difficult towards Druncker and Barmier.

I really hope there's not going to be another election. That would be the absolute worst. More than flesh and blood could stand. I'm electioned out.
 
Sigh. I remember coming across this story and being irritated as is.

Lawdog said:
In news from Afghanistan, seems that the Brits identified a high-value target -- in this case a Taleban warlord.

Local British Command rounded up a Gurkha patrol, gave them the intel and mentioned that they really needed positive ID once the Gurks caught up with him.

Well, catch up they did, with the result that said warlord became intimately acquainted with the Gurkhas "Air In, Blood Out" diplomatic skills.

Things got a little too warmish for the Gurkhas to retrieve the body -- positive ID and all that -- so when the patrol returned to base and the CO asked if they were sure they got the bastard ...

... A Gurkha pulled the warlord's head out of a backpack.

*shrug*

The end of the tale should read: "The Gurkha patrol was issued one case of gin, and three days leave."

Unfortunately, we have discovered that the British Army has deemed this as being "culturally insensitive" and is in the process of disciplining the Gurkha who did the whacking and the carrying.

You have ...

Of all the ...

Are you sodding ...

Words can not ...

IT'S WAR, YOU SODDING NUMPTIES, NOT A DAMNED GAME OF CONKERS!

"... it offends the Muslim tradition of burying the dead with all body parts, attached or unattached".

Bushwa. How many body parts do you think they recover after a suicide bombing?

And I can sure tell that they're all sensitive about traumatic head removal, seeing as how they pretty much lead the world in beheadings, televised and otherwise.

Tell you jackanapes what: you stop cutting the heads off of police officers, engineers, headmasters, nuns, soldiers, journalists, Christians, women, geologists, and anyone else who trips your "We're Offended" trigger, and we'll stop cutting the heads off of your bloody-handed buddies.

Deal?

Seeing as how said body part is still in inventory -- so to speak -- sounds like an amiable solution to this stinker is to grab some good paper, write a nice little note explaining how you're sorry that the grieving kin got stuck with a terrorist dirt-bag as a relative, nail it to the forehead with a sixty-penny nail, and have Wee Jock hammer-throw it over the Hesco for the dearly bereaved to collect come sun-up.

See? That's diplomacy, that is.

While we're being all culturally-sensitive here, part of the Gurkhas culture involves lopping (significant) bits off of designated Bad Guys with bloody huge knives. Isn't it a bit "culturally insensitive" to chastise one who is, after all, just expressing his culture?

The allies are blowing quantities of Taleban into mincemeat with assorted artillery rounds, bombs, mortar shells, bombs, rockets, bombs, missiles, and bombs -- you damned well can't tell me that all the sticky bits are getting recovered after Abdul the Moderately Rabid catches a 500-pound GBU amidships -- so why are you getting all wrapped around the axle because one or more Gurkhas did the needful with a knife instead of high-explosive?

There is not one single, gods-be-damned thing "culturally sensitive" about war. It's war. It's killing the other guy, and breaking his stuff, in job lots, until his side gives up.

Period. Full stop.

The Afghanis know this. Britain used to know this, and they'd better jolly well remember it.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47265467

Karl Marx's memorial in north London has been vandalised for the second time in two weeks.

The words "Doctrine of Hate" and "Architect of Genocide" are scrawled in red on the Grade I-listed grave in Highgate Cemetery.

This latest incident follows a "deliberate and sustained" hammer attack on 4 February that left the memorial badly damaged.

There have been no arrests in connection with either attack.

Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust said the German philosopher's memorial would "never be the same again" following the previous attack.

Maxwell Blowfield, from the British Museum, said he was "quite shocked" to see the most recent act of vandalism when he visited the cemetery earlier with his mother.

The 31-year-old said it was particularly sad because tourists regularly visited the site.

"It's a highlight of the cemetery".

"It's a shame. The red paint will disappear, I assume, but to see that kind of level of damage and to see it happen twice, it's not good," he continued.

"I am just surprised that somebody in 2019 feels they need to [go] and do something like that."

In 1970 a pipe bomb blew up part of the plaque's marble face, that was first used for Marx's wife Jenny von Westphalen in 1881.

The plaque was subsequently moved when both Marx and his wife were exhumed and moved to a more prominent location within the cemetery in 1954.

It has also been covered in Swastikas and emulsion paint has been thrown at it, in the past.
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Surprised this hasn't happened more often in all fairness.
 
[Insert obligatory 'I don't agree with socialism but' disclaimer here.]

A shame and a waste of time. Nobody who had such a fabulous beard deserves to have their grave vandalized.
 
Jeff Heaney said:
I don't care about the person's politics, anybody who goes about vandalising graves is a wanker.
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Im not a Marxist but this is some ISIS grade dumbass shit, they love blowing up buildings, churches, old temples and architecture, destroying art or any works. They all think: I AM a hero. I AM on the right side of history! Destroy kill, tear it up! I love getting drunk and angry and chimping out because I AM important!

Antifa is toothless, other parties are toothless, this is the best they can do, destroy historic sites because they dont believe in what it preaches. It's like fedora tippers bombing cathedrals.

"I dont agree with this person's politics so ANY mention of their existing, any monument, is a reminder of them, and it's advocating LITERAL NAZI-ISM"

Any mention of a historic person is a personal attack and Im being victimized!

WOW you really sure showed Marx, Im sure his desiccated remains are spinning light speed in his grave! Wow you sure made a political point that wasnt just dropping trou and shitting in the street and going "REE I dont like this!"

You dont even have a point to make, youre like antifa waiting for a riot because youre full of vitriol and just want to tear shit up, but when the riot comes and youre done looting, you dont want the repercussions of actually being in the riot. You dont actually want to get punched in the riot. Keyboard warrior personified, wants a revolution but couldnt run around the block.
 
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