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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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In case anyone didn't know, London based furries have a semi-regular meet up in a pub near this location.

Do you know the name of the pub ? I might pop in sometime & check them out for the lulz.

The suspect is described as tall, white and aged in his 30s, with “an animal tail like a fox tail sticking out from the back of a trouser pocket, or attached to his trousers”.

Yeah right. We all know it was a tail butt plug.
 
WHEN BRITAIN DIED
Welcome to Sharia.









In April of this year, in an article titled "4 Reasons Why London is The Worst," Maria Ebele had this to say: "London has the reputation of one of the greatest cities in the world. But I’ll let you in on a secret: if you ever want to make friends with a Brit who is not from London, casually drop in conversation that London isn’t your most favourite place in the world. Then sit back and watch. Most likely, you’ll see his or her eyes light up with glee at the opportunity to rip into the nation’s capital."
The author has a point. Over the past couple of years, more than 340,000 people have moved away from London amid rising levels of knife crime, according to reports. Extortionate property prices and poor air quality are also cited as reasons for people choosing to leave the capital and set up a new life elsewhere in the UK. Obviously, people want a better quality of life; also, people would prefer not to get stabbed.
However, could there be another reason for the mass exodus?
I ask this because London is acquiring an increasingly Islamic face.
In the words of Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi, an eminent preacher in the city, “London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together.” Yes, that London, as in the home of red buses and posh accents. The "traditional" picture of London has been replaced with a more worrying one. According to Giulio Meotti, a researcher at the Gatestone Institute, by 2020, “estimates are that the number of Muslims attending prayers will reach at least 683,000, while the number of Christians attending weekly Mass will drop to 679,000.” Next year, Islam looks likely to be the dominant religion in the capital.

As Meotti notes, since 2001, more than 500 London churches of all denominations have been turned into private homes. During the same period, British mosques have been proliferating. The proportion of Britons who identify themselves as Anglicans continues to fall, while, according to a NatCen Social Research Institute report, the number of Muslims continues to grow by the thousands. As Jean Patrick Gunberg laments, “Churchgoers are declining at a rate that within a generation, their number will be three times lower than that of Muslims who go regularly to mosque on Friday.”
Of course, Islamification doesn’t occur in a vacuum. In Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK, an Islamic minaret dominates the skyline. The "City of a Thousand Trades" has a huge Muslim population (22%). There have been petitions to allow mosques to place loudspeakers throughout the city. Why? To call people to prayer three times a day.
Imagine this occurring in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the U.S.
Demographically, the Britain of today is very different from the Britain of the '90s and early '00s; the most common name in England and Wales is now Mohammed, including spelling variations such as Muhammad and Mohammad.
Outside of London and Birmingham, other major cities have huge Muslim populations: Manchester (15.8%) and Bradford (24.7%). In the latter city, half the children are Muslim. The cultural, demographic and religious revolution in which Christianity declines and Islam advances is almost complete. The future of the UK is one rooted in burqas and strict interpretations of Islam.

An exaggeration? I think not.
As Innes Bowen noted in a piece for The Spectator, of the some 1,700 mosques in Britain, only two - yes, two - now follow the modernist interpretation of Islam. The Wahhabis control many mosques throughout the land. Call it what you will, "ultraconservative," "austere," "fundamentalist," or "puritan," but Wahhabism is premised on an abhorrent doctrine.
Worryingly, major British cities are full of sharia courts. London, for example, has over 100. How did this happen?
According to the aforementioned Giotti, “The advent of this parallel judicial system has been made possible thanks to the British Arbitration Act and the system of Alternative Dispute Resolution. These new courts are based on the rejection of the inviolability of human rights: the values of freedom and equality that are the basis of English Common Law.”
Acquiescence bordering on capitulation has also played a role. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chief Justice Lord Phillips have previously suggested that British law should "incorporate" elements of sharia law – you know, the law based on the religious precepts of Islam, not the actual law that civilized societies in the west recognize.
British universities have also acquiesced. Take a quick look at the report titled "external speakers in higher education institutions," published by Universities in the UK. There you will read that "orthodox religious groups" may separate men and women during events. As The Daily Mail reported, females at Queen Mary University of London had to use a separate entrance and were told to sit in a room without being able to ask questions or even raise their hands. Remember, this took place in London, not Lahore.
According to reporters at The Telegraph, the Islamic Society at the London School of Economics held a particularly notable gala. Here, like livestock in a shed, women and men were separated by a seven-meter panel.
This should worry us all, especially those of us who care about the UK as a bastion of civilized values.

Britain does a dogshit job at integration and its no surprise as the even the white people basically view eachother as different species due to class differences.

There are Jews in London that don't speak English that have lived in that city for 5 centuries. They are horribly inbred, view Israel as an abomination that will usher in the apocalypse (as was the traditional view of a Jewish state) and practice oral circumcisions.
 
There are Jews in London that don't speak English that have lived in that city for 5 centuries. They are horribly inbred, view Israel as an abomination that will usher in the apocalypse (as was the traditional view of a Jewish state) and practice oral circumcisions.

500 year old dick biting Jews in London? Would make a great episode of Penny Dreadful
 
Muh Islamophobia is showing...

Smirking pervert jailed for horrific sex attack on autistic teenager in Sparkbrook
Mohammed Sammer, aged 29, jailed for two years and nine months after he admitted sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder and theft in Sparkbrook attack

A man has been jailed for sexually abusing a vulnerable autistic teenage boy - after trying to sell him his bike.
Mohammed Sammer, 39, targeted the 17-year-old who was standing outside of a shop in Sparkbrook .

The pervert was riding a pushbike when he approached the teenager on February 11 and asked him if he wanted to buy the bike.
Sammer, from Quinton, then asked the victim if he had a spare cigarette.

Mohammed Sammer, 39, jailed for sexual assault of autistic teenager in Birmingham

Mohammed Sammer, 39, jailed for sexual assault of autistic teenager in Birmingham (Image: West Midlands Police)
He then led the teenager, who suffers with a mental disorder, to a quieter area of the park on Highgate Road, where the sexual assault took place.
Sammer - who is seen smirking in his police mugshot - then fled after taking the teenager’s mobile phone.

The boy reported the attack to police and told them the offender had discarded a cigarette butt in the park and taken a sip from an energy drink can.
These were found in the park and combined with DNA taken from the boy’s clothing, helped to positively identify Sammer as the attacker.

Mohammed Sammer lured the vulnerable teenager to a quiet area of the park before unleashing his attack.
Sammer pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder impeding choice and theft.
He was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison, and will remain on the sex offenders register for life.
Julia McSorley, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “This was an attack on a very vulnerable teenager, Sammer was well aware the victim did not have the capacity to consent.
“In the end the case against him was so strong that Sammer had no choice but to admit what he had done, which thankfully has spared his victim from having to relive the events in court .”




And here we have another Mo setting fire to Ilkley Moor. I'm surprised there is no mention of possible terrorism here as ISIS made a public plea to their groupies telling them to set wild fires several years ago & are known to have done this in Syria & Iraq themselves.

Ilkley Moor arsonist who started fire that raged across 25,000sqm of land jailed
Mohammed Zulkifl , 20, who previously pleaded guilty to arson, was at Bradford Crown Court today for sentencing

An arsonist who set fire to Ilkley Moor as flames raged across the iconic Yorkshire landmark has been locked up for 27 months.
Mohammed Zulkifl, 20, put a cigarette lighter to grass as firefighters faced being overwhelmed by the conflagration which destroyed 50 acres of valuable wildlife habitat.

A court heard multiple fire crews battled two large fires on the world famous moor on 20 April, this year, when Zulkifl, of Bradford, West Yorks, was spotted setting fire to grass before running off.
Sentencing, Recorder of Bradford Jonathan Durham Hall QC told Zulkifl:”Ilkley Moor is etched into the national psyche - we all know it.
“It is one of the few features which often distinguishes this area in the minds of onlookers.

“It is an extremely beautiful, extensive area of moorland. It is vulnerable, and will be vulnerable, along with all other moors."

"This case is a matter that has come to considerable public attention because it was an aspect of the most distressing and upsetting fires that beset this extremely precious part of Yorkshire during a very warm season indeed. Exceptionally, unusually.”
Bradford Crown Court heard the emergency services were already stretched tackling two separate seats of wildfires on the tinder dry Ilkley Moor following days of hot weather when Zulkifl lit two further fires.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp said the moor is of special important to the local community, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Area of Conservation, and a Special Protection Area.
The initial fires began about 4pm around a coppice in the White Wells area of the moor and the flames threatened residential properties.
“Officials were deployed to keep members of the public away from the fires and to allow the emergency services to work,” said Mr Sharp.
“At about 8pm, Council wardens Janine Bell and Philip Kaye were in the White Wells area assisting in this process when they were approached by some concerned members of the public who pointed out a group of three males, the defendant and two others.

“Smoke was rising from the area where the group was standing, and the established wildfires and the activities of the emergency services could clearly be seen from their vantage-point.
“Ms Bell and Mr Kaye started to walk towards the group. As they approached, they saw the defendant crouch down and set fire to the grass with his cigarette lighter. A fire started and the defendant stamped it out.
“But he then set fire to the grass a second time, and walked away as the fire began to take hold. The wardens ii began running towards them. All three males ran off as the wardens and several members of the public gave chase. The males ran into the path of police officers on the moor, and were arrested.
“The defendant admitted to the officers that he had set a fire.”
Zulkifl pleaded guilty to arson.
Mitigating Mrs Kate Batty said her client’s action was ‘an act of stupidity.’


 
Do you know the name of the pub ? I might pop in sometime & check them out for the lulz.



Yeah right. We all know it was a tail butt plug.

I'm afraid I don't. They keep it fairly quiet, though I do know a journalist who interviewed them once. Not the one who wrote this Vice article below. I'm not sure if they meet in the same bar/pub as this 2015 article, but "near St Pauls" puts them on the other side of the bridge to the Tate Modern and I have a friend who's spotted a group in fursuits walking across said bridge).


There's info on Wikifur too

 
Just looking at pubs on Google Maps in the St Paul's area, I'm drawn to The Cock Pit...

Yep, that looks & sounds like my sort of place too. Will have to check it out next time I'm in town. I love old, Victorian London pubs though this one says it was established in 1787.


The Cockpit is what it says it is - you are sitting where razor-spurred fighting cocks tore blood, feathers and the very life from one another. Look up again and notice for the first time the narrow, balustraded galleries where the mob once roared. Appreciate the strutting, stuffed fighting bird over one door, the carved models, prints and paintings wherever the eye roams. Feel London's sometimes unpalatable history wash over you. Nothing else really matters - it's a four pinter from the moment you pass through the door. But for the record, it's quite homely.
 
Britain does a dogshit job at integration and its no surprise as the even the white people basically view eachother as different species due to class differences.

There are Jews in London that don't speak English that have lived in that city for 5 centuries. They are horribly inbred, view Israel as an abomination that will usher in the apocalypse (as was the traditional view of a Jewish state) and practice oral circumcisions.

Stamford Hill. Also has an issue with unlicensed yeshivas providing an entirely of some kids' education aka not exactly a well rounded one.
 
Eastern and Central European countries like Poland, Italy and Hungary are gonna come out as the superpowers of the continent if this trend continues, atleast they're not suicidal.
 
I love old, Victorian London pubs though this one says it was established in 1787.

Oh yes, the older pubs are usually the best. Best pub I've ever been in was a place near Oxford Road Station in Manchester called The Lass O'Gowrie. Need to go back at some point, it's been a while.
 
Man gets 12-inch leg tattoo of 'legend' disabled mugging victim Alan Barnes
The inked man sat through 12 hours of needle work to get the black and white image of Alan Barnes transferred onto his upper leg

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Chavtastic.

A man got a 12 inch leg tattoo of disabled mugging victim Alan Barnes' after describing him as a "legend".
The inked man, who does not wish to be named, sat through 12 hours of needle work to get the black and white image transferred onto his upper leg.

After being accused of mocking Alan with the tattoo, he claimed the tat is a tribute to Alan, who was badly injured after being brutally attacked outside his house in Gateshead, Newcastle, in 2015.
He told Chronicle Live : "I haven't done this to take the mick.
"I think some people would go into their shell after being attacked like that, but Alan took it in his stride.
"I think, considering his disability, he is an inspiration.

"The way he stood up to bullies, he is a legend."
Alan - who is just 4ft 6in and weighs six stone - was violently mugged by drug addict Richard Gatiss and more than £300,000 was later raised for his rehousing.
The man got the tattoo on Monday, in Gosforth, from an artist who has only been inking people full-time for a month.
Emerging talent 'Birdyy' was the tattooist responsible, after issuing an appeal to find someone who would be willing to have Alan's face etched onto their skin - because the 71-year-old was the catalyst for his career.
"When I first started, the first thing I drew was Alan," said 'Birdyy', known to his family and friends as Joe Bird.
"For some reason Alan Barnes had been on the TV, so I was asked to draw his picture.


More info & horrifying pictures in link.

" The inked man, who does not wish to be named... " Because he can't remember his name after a week long binge on White Lightning & Smack ???

Worst. Tattoo. Ever.
 
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Check out all the triggered tankies on twidder... wew lad. Really makes you think.
 
Here's yet another reason to stop foreign aid to Pakistan, particularly when parents are being begged to pay for school equipment here themselves.

Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools paid for with UK taxpayers’ cash are closed after builders bodged them despite millions in foreign aid
  • The closure of classrooms mean 115,00 kids in overcrowded rooms or outside
  • MPs call for inquiry into how UK's £14 billion aid budget is spent overseas
  • Alok Sharma said classrooms need to be built to better standards going forward
Classrooms in nearly 800 schools in Pakistan – paid for with British taxpayers’ foreign aid money – have been closed because they are badly built and unsafe, it was revealed yesterday.
The closure of the buildings, erected as part of a £107 million aid project, has left 115,000 children taking lessons outdoors or in overcrowded rooms.
The foreign aid fiasco prompted MPs to call for an inquiry amid continued questions about how well the annual foreign aid budget – around £14 billion – is spent.

It comes only a few weeks after the Department for International Development (DfID), which administers the aid budget, published figures showing how its civil servants received bonuses worth £1.75 million last year. The school buildings’ construction faults were first flagged in engineering reports carried out for the DfID three years ago.
Reports said DfID contractor IMC Worldwide’s buildings did not meet local building standards, failed earthquake safety tests, and were of generally poor quality. After a third safety report, commissioned by DfID, exposed flaws in June, the Government ordered buildings at 793 schools to be closed while inspectors decide to correct the faults.
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma said yesterday: ‘It is completely unacceptable that the schools and classrooms UK aid commissioned IMC to construct have not been built to the quality and standard we expect.’ He said the company are retrofitting all buildings to ensure they are fit for purpose ‘at no extra cost to the British taxpayer.'

Officials said Mr Sharma ‘has spoken to the senior management of IMC to highlight the urgency of the situation and the expectation that IMC will provide all necessary facilities without further delay.'
The company was contracted in 2014 to build more than 30,000 classrooms and other school facilities in Pakistan, in a deal originally worth £184 million. However, the order was cut back to just over a fifth of the original number of classrooms, and the price reduced to £107 million.
Sources said the downsizing happened as the firm had wrongly estimated the costs. IMC said: ‘We did not underestimate costs. Rather, the number of classrooms in the programme was reduced and the budget was adjusted accordingly.'

The company told the Financial Times its designs used ‘innovative approaches to improve comfort and cost effectiveness’ and said buildings had been signed off by an approved consultant registered by the Pakistan Engineering Council. IMC said: ‘We believe the buildings in question are safe under normal loading but there may be an issue under extreme seismic loads. We will never take any risks with the safety of children, so if there is any question about it, we will put it right.’
In January, the then international development secretary Penny Mordaunt admitted Britain’s foreign aid spending target was unsustainable. She suggested profits from UK investments abroad should count towards the target.
And in June, her successor Rory Stewart said more British experts should be sent around the world to audit aid projects, and called for a stronger focus on quality of aid rather than quantity.
There has been criticism of schemes which previously received funding. And in 2017, the department came under fire for an £11.8 million plan to fund a girl band dubbed ‘Ethiopia’s Spice Girls.' However, the plan was later halted.






International Development Secretary Alok Sharma


What, who ? This bloke wasn't even born in Britain, so should have no say in how British taxpayers money is spent internationally.
 
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