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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It's a good documentary. It introduced me to the Trojan Horse Scandal, which turned out to be completely, 100% true. Boy, that got memory holed fast. It also had quite a few non-whites in it who basically said "yep, the East End is complete shit now".

I googled that and learned it is entirely fake.

In 2014, documents alleging a conspiracy to Islamise Birmingham schools were leaked to the media, sparking a national scandal. The papers were debunked – but the story remains as divisive as ever. What really happened?

Debunked, it wasn't true says The Guardian.







Guardian 5 years later:

Birmingham school stops LGBT lessons after parents protest

 

[Captain Ahab]

Delusional old pricks. As Jesus said, “Judge ye not a man’s fap, lest your fap be judged.” Something like that.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Honestly it's pretty weird to call Africa racially homogenous to if we're talking genetic diversity and not "how much melanin does X have".


There's a lot more than two Chinese languages. We tend to lump them all together because they use the same alphabet, and said alphabet is ideographic so even if a person cannot understand the others' speech, if their languages both use the same alphabet they can write to each other.For some reason places like wikipefdia retardedly list Chinese as a "language isolate" when the reality is it's an entire family of Sinitic languages.

The somewhat more educated Americans think of Mandarin and Cantonese. But those aren't the only two languages by a long shot that use the Chinese alphabet. We just think of them that way because Mandarin is the official one and Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong, which is politically significant to the US. Cantonese is by no means the second language of China in terms of number of speakers or geographic spread. That's purely a western concept.

China is an Empire in the truest sense of the word and has been for ages. It rules over many, many different peoples and cultures.

And they all look the same.

 

[Ineedahero]

Because they all live in London and all the entertainment industry is in London.

This creates other problems. For example blacks are only like 3% of the UK but 13% of London. The BBC tries to equally represent them and gives them 3% of roles but blacks complain because 3% still seems under representative compared to their London ghettos. So they give them extra roles which makes the rest of the country complain.

So the British are so afraid of muslims they will sacrifice hundreds of girls to their rape gangs out of fear of looking racist, but so unafraid of Blacks they will bitch if they get up to 13% representation instead of 3%? That's extraordinarily pathetic.

Edit: duh, there is another page. My point stands even if the numbers are off, the British clearly don't care about offending Blacks, they just scare easily.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Because they all live in London and all the entertainment industry is in London.

This creates other problems. For example blacks are only like 3% of the UK but 13% of London. The BBC tries to equally represent them and gives them 3% of roles but blacks complain because 3% still seems under representative compared to their London ghettos. So they give them extra roles which makes the rest of the country complain.

Similarly, I've noticed that the BBC has tons of Scottish presenters / announcers, despite them being 8% of the UK population. It just goes to show that endlessly whinging really does work in getting your own way.

 

[Sable]

Similarly, I've noticed that the BBC has tons of Scottish presenters / announcers, despite them being 8% of the UK population. It just goes to show that endlessly whinging really does work in getting your own way.

Hey, I like Scottish presenters.

But yeah, to paraphrase myself from the last time people were screeching that the UK would ban the whole internet; they're all idiots who don't even know what a windows is, they're going to make some noise about banning stuff for moral reasons, then find it's impossible than quietly stop talking about it.

...I miss Mary Whitehouse. At least she didn't try to dox you and people would anonymously tell her about their show/videogame to get her to complain about it as free advertisement.

 

[Slimy Time]

if they really want to block porn they are going to have to ban pretty much everything that's not news articles, they can't pick or choose what they wan't to block on a site, no more 4chan, reddit, twitter, or facebook for them.

What would they do with Twitter? Pornstars put all sorts of clips from their scenes on their profiles, so would this absolute piece of garbage filter block Twitter?

Also, this is what the filter looks like.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

What would they do with Twitter? Pornstars put all sorts of clips from their scenes on their profiles, so would this absolute piece of garbage filter block Twitter?

Only a site with more than 30% of its content being pr0n will be caught, apparently.

This means that it is completely unfit for purpose. Kids are more likely to stumble across NSFW contents on social media than they are to direct themselves to the hamster.

 

[UW 411]

No darkies on S4C, just incomprehensible dwarf speaking whiteys.
It's all overly PC 'inclusion' to have your gays, blacks, pakis, trannies, disabled people in every show. Meeting the diversity quota has replaced hiring general talent.

Trying to restrict legal porn is one of the most exceptional things the UK gov could attempt. It'll never happen. Far too many loopholes and kinky porn is what keeps half of parliament going.

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Only a site with more than 30% of its content being pr0n will be caught, apparently.

The thing I'd like to know is how they would go about verifying that. It's not like they could effectively employ a team of people to comb through every website and decide what percentage of it is pornographic, and any automated attempt to analyse a given website's metadata is going to be easily circumvented by sites simply not tagging things as pornographic.

In other words, it's going to have the opposite of it's intended effect by increasingly the likelihood of minors coming across porn by accident.

 

[Slimy Time]

Only a site with more than 30% of its content being pr0n will be caught, apparently.

This means that it is completely unfit for purpose. Kids are more likely to stumble across NSFW contents on social media than they are to direct themselves to the hamster.

In that case it's absolutely useless. Assuming that kids are not tech savvy enough to VPN it, they will go to Twitter, Reddit, 4, 8, probably some bootleg Russian sites. These sorts of bans are useless.

On a holiday I went on years ago, the country I was in had a complete porn block, pornhub, xhamster etc...all of that was blocked by the ISPs. Either you used a VPN, which completely got around it, or you found sites like vporn and yourporn.sexy, or some hungarian bootleg which are not on their list. Is that what the UK government wants, for teenagers to run to these lesser known sites where the risk of encountering something far, far worse is increased?

 

[CaesarCzech]

It all makes sense when you realize That Diversity is our strenght. means its the strenght of the invaders not yours. Diversity is Their strenght.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

And they all look the same.

Not to each other.

 

[Randall Fragg]

I mean, they’re not wrong about what the UK should do with Jerry “Unload my 9 for a free Palestine” Corbyn.

 

[Foltest]

One of Corbyn closet allies has been suspended over "drumroll" antisemitism!

Labour suspends NEC member over antisemitism claims

Pete Willsman was recorded claiming an Israeli agent had infiltrated the party

www.theguardian.com

Labour suspends NEC member over antisemitism claims
Pete Willsman was recorded claiming an Israeli agent had infiltrated the party
Labour has suspended a controversial member of its ruling national executive committee (NEC) after he was recorded claiming that an Israeli agent had infiltrated the party.
Pete Willsman, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn, also said the Jewish state was behind some of the antisemitism allegations – which he described as “total lies” – that have engulfed the party.
In a recording first disclosed by the radio station LBC, Willsman said: “It’s almost certain who is behind all this antisemitism against Jeremy: almost certainly, it was the Israeli embassy.
“They caught somebody in the Labour party who it turns out is an agent in the embassy.”
Two days ago, the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched an inquiry into antisemitism in Labour, an unprecedented move for a major UK party. NEC members will be responsible for responding to the investigation into allegations of institutional racism.


A Labour party spokeswoman said on Friday: “Peter Willsman has been suspended from the Labour party, pending investigation.”
He would not be able to attend NEC meetings or perform any other functions, sources confirmed.
According to LBC, Willsman made the comments in January when he met the American-Israeli author Tuvia Tenenbom, who was in the UK to write a book and was seeking an interview with Corbyn.
Tenenbom, who recorded their conversation, pressed Willsman for proof the Israeli embassy was directing attacks against the Labour party. In comments that Willsman said were “off the record”, he said: “The people that are in the Labour party doing it are people who are linked. One of them works indirectly with the embassy. So obviously, I wouldn’t be bothered to find out, but my guess would be they are the ones whipping it up all the time.”
Willsman claimed the Israeli government had helped to organise a letter from more than 60 rabbis criticising Labour that was published by the Guardian.
“In the Guardian not long ago we had 68 rabbis – obviously organised by the Israeli embassy – saying antisemitism in the Labour party is widespread and severe,” he said.
Earlier in the conversation, the interviewer asked Willsman for his name. He replied: “Peter. Red Pete. They call me Corbyn’s enforcer. But I said I don’t want to be called Corbyn’s enforcer because enforcers haven’t got no sense of humour.”
It is the second time in 10 months that Willsman has been suspended for alleged antisemitism.
Last July, Willsman claimed at an NEC meeting attended by Corbyn that some Jews were “Trump fanatics”, saying he would “not be lectured” by Jewish supporters of the US president “making up duff information without any evidence at all”.
Willsman apologised, saying he was “of course aware of appalling instances of antisemitism in the party”, he was “wholly determined to root it out of our movement” and he would undertake equality training.
Jewish groups and Labour MPs called on Friday for Willsman to be expelled.
In a letter signed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust, they said Willsman’s words were “racist by any measure”.
The former minister Margaret Hodge said Willsman should “go now”, while Liz Kendall said his alleged views had “no place in our party”.
Labour has been at the centre of antisemitism claims for more than three years since the MP Naz Shah apologised for social media posts which she admitted were antisemitic.
Since then, the party has had hundreds of complaints alleging hostility and prejudice against Jewish people.
Amid the claims, Corbyn has expressed regret for sending an apparently supportive tweet in 2014 for an allegedly antisemitic mural. He later apologised after appearing at an event where a Holocaust survivor compared Israel to Nazism.
Willsman has spent most of his career in Labour politics, playing a key role as a leftwinger on the NEC or fighting to get on it.
He was part of the Grassroots Alliance slate that humiliated Tony Blair at the height of his power in 1998, winning one of four spots on the party’s ruling body at the end of a bitterly fought campaign.
Labour has been asked if it has identified an Israeli agent who has worked inside the party and whether Willsman ever received equality training.
The party’s response to the recording will be closely scrutinised while a row goes on about the decision to exclude Tony Blair’s former communications chief Alastair Campbell for saying he had voted for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections.
Willsman has been approached for a comment.

 

[MemeGray]

Why does a 92 year old feel the need to apologize? Like your gonna be dead soon man, fuck 'em.

 

[CWCissey]

This old guy should have only agreed to apologise to Corbachev when everyone who cheered Tommy Robinson getting milkshaked apologised to him.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

People have been writing about society falling since the time of Pliny the Elder.

They even only called him that because he was constantly shaking his fist at young people. "Get out of my olive and feta cheese garden you byzantine whippersnappers", he was often quoted as shouting from his porch.

 

[byuu]

Corbyn deserves to be the next PM if he can make him apologise for 9/11 too.

 

[Unog]

Chinese don't have any, they openly accept Han dominance. That said, woke Chinese and western sources are writing about it. Indians are getting pretty "woke" to their minorities though, I remember a huge shitstorm over some Indian beauty competition mostly having lighter skin girls. You do have to remember that China and India are so huge that their ethnic troubles are comparable to NA and SA put together.

India had the whole caste system problem (I don't know if the different castes are racially divided or not) not to mention it's huge land area had a ton of different tribes.

It's not about what the truth is, it's about who is allowed to say it. Tyrants don't want someone else to even so much as repeat what they themselves have said because it weakens their monopoly on power if the little folk get it in their heads that there may be more than one reliable source for the truth. I can say the earth is round and I'm right, but if you say the earth is round I have to call you wrong and evil because the next time people question things I can't have them thinking they can ask anyone other than myself for answers.

This is why I have the same take as Thomas Jefferson on tyrants nowadays.

I managed to upload to dailymotion but they age restricted the video so you prob need an account

Thanks.