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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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Well, in the U.S., this would be completely legally acceptable as it is a threat to no specific, identifiable person and there is no idiotic "hate speech" exception for saying things that hurt the fee-fees of special snowflakes. However, any Christian who said this about Muslim converts would be being prosecuted right now on Cuck Island.
 
Labour continuing to be a living stereotype at conference:
Labour set to give all foreign nationals living in UK right to vote in general elections for first time

Labour support abolishing private schools in conference vote

Labour will campaign at the next general election with a promise to effectively abolish private schools and "redistribute" their properties to the state sector.

Whilst @GdnPolitics and @BBCPolitics tell the public Labour are having a civil war over brexit or Tom Watson or anything else, this is what's actually happening. John McDonnell is on a stage with @novaramedia deciding what industries to nationalise with a big wheel.
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And not forgetting the criticism of ((ZIONISM)):
These disgusting anti Semitic images are on display outside @UKLabour conference The party of anti racism+equality is now biggest enabler of jew hatred of the most pernicious kind in the Uk. it is no wonder majority of Uk Jews are terrified at prospect of a Corbyn Government.
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This leaflet showing a laser weapon destroying @JewishLabour was distributed inside the conference centre at #Lab19.
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Labour continuing to be a living stereotype at conference:






And not forgetting the criticism of ((ZIONISM)):




Michael Foot just breathed a sigh of relief from the grave.
 
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Even politicians who had supported the RSE legislation expressed concern. Tory MP David Davies said: ‘I and many other parents would be furious at completely inappropriate sexual matters being taught to children as young as six. These classes go way beyond the guidance the Government is producing and are effectively sexualising very young children.’

Documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday detail how All About Me classes involve pupils aged between six and ten being told by teachers that there are ‘rules about touching yourself’. An explanation of ‘rules about self-stimulation’ appears in the scheme’s Year Two lesson plan for six and seven-year-olds.

Under a section called Touching Myself, teachers are advised to tell children that ‘lots of people like to tickle or stroke themselves as it might feel nice’. They are also instructed to inform youngsters that this may include touching their ‘private parts’ and, that while some people may say this behaviour is ‘dirty’, it is in fact ‘very normal’.

However, the youngsters are warned it is ‘not polite’ to touch themselves in public – it is an activity they should do when alone in the bath, shower or in bed.

In the same lesson, children are given scenarios which they must judge to be ‘OK’ or ‘not OK’.

In one, pupils are told that when a girl called Autumn ‘has a bath and is alone she likes to touch herself between her legs. It feels nice’.

At this point, teachers are advised to remind the students of the ‘rules about self-stimulation’.

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Time for home schooling. This is fucking vile.

Public schools giving sexual education to girls of this age is absolutely haram. By Allah, if a girl is 6 years old, is it not the role of her husband to educate her in such things? The West truly is depraved.
 
Labour continuing to be a living stereotype at conference:






And not forgetting the criticism of ((ZIONISM)):



Their conference had some classic Labour moments as well. The Abboppotamus came out with a stunning speech about how "we are on the verge of a general election" and that they were "ready for Boris...bring it on". They really think so little of the public not to see through the fact that they collectively voted against a GE not once, but twice.

The Momentum movement of Labour will do anything to remove the moderate/Blairite parts of the party, and are willing to look absolutely fucking ridiculous while doing so. It is quite literally a cult. A cult to the most inept leader of the party, probably topping Foot in how badly he's doing.
 
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and 13 Assistants Flying to Africa with Climate Message

Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, make a long haul flight to Africa on Monday to spread their climate advocacy to a new audience. Baby Archie will join them on the 10-day visit along with a team of 13 assistants including a “social media officer” and a hairdresser for Markle.

The Sussexes’ first tour as a family comes after the duke and duchess flew to Rome to watch Meghan’s close friend, fashion designer Misha Nonoo walk down the aisle with oil tycoon Michael Hess on Friday.
Highlights of the latest trip will see the duke and duchess visit a township in Cape Town to tour a workshop supporting children and young girls, and visit another near Johannesburg where they will learn about a project tackling rising unemployment. Malawai, Botswana, and Angola are also on the itinerary.

The past two months have been busy for the Royal pair, with them spotted at one stage taking four private jet flights in just 11 days. Their seemingly constant air travel has not been without controversy.
Last month a barefoot Duke of Sussex stood before an elite audience of business leaders and celebrities gathered at Google’s annual deluxe retreat in Sicily to warn immediate action is needed to avoid an approaching climate catastrophe.
The Evening Standard reported Prince Harry, 34, is understood to have insisted the future of the planet is a humanitarian issue, not a political one, and the world must act to avoid disaster.

The prince has already announced he and the duchess will have no more than two children because of the concerns they share for the environment.
Even so, the refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, their grace and favour home on the Windsor estate, at a cost to the taxpayer of £2.4 million, drew criticism for unnecessary extravagance.
So too did the Duchess of Sussex’s last-minute dash to New York two weeks ago to watch her friend Serena Williams play in the U.S. Open tennis final.
That trip came trip came in the same week Prince Harry, flew to Amsterdam to caution holidaymakers and tourism chiefs about the damage being done to the environment by frequent flyers.



Saving the planet one flight at a time.
 
(((Alison Chabloz))) jailed for posting 50 "Anti-Semitic" hurty-word posts to her website/social media

 
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Teen 'told mum he wanted to rape her after watching video of chimps having sex'
The Hull teen is accused of sexually assaulting his mum after watching footage of chimpanzees mating

A teenage boy has appeared in court accused of sexually assaulting his own mum and telling her he wanted to "rape her."

A court heard how the 18-year-old, from Hull, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is alleged to have brought up the conversation of sex with his mother while he was 16 and watching footage of chimpanzees mating.


The teen is on trial charged with sexual assault, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, and exposure.

Hull Crown Court heard how the teen was watching an episode of the Secret Life of the Zoo which featured chimpanzees mating, when he is accused of making the the comments.

The prosecutor told the court that on January 4, 2018, while watching the programme, the then 16-year-old spoke to his mum about how he had seen a video on his father's phone of his parents having sexual intercourse, and that had made him want to have sex with her, reports Hull Live.

Mr Lowe said: "He told her that since he had seen the video of her having sex with her ex-partner [his dad], he couldn't stop thinking about having sex with her and raping her."


Speaking from behind a screen in the court, the woman said that she told the boy, "I'm your mam" and walked away from him to go into the kitchen "to let him think about what he'd said."

She said: "He just looked at me like he'd done nothing wrong."

The boy is then accused of sexually assaulting her.

She said: "I started drying some pots I had on the draining board and then that's when he came up to me. I had been in the kitchen maybe a few minutes.

"He came up behind me and put his hands under my armpits and then that's when he started touching my right breast and was pushing me against the draining board, and rubbing himself up and down me, his genitals in contact with my body.

"I told him to stop and tried pushing him back but he was so strong and I could hear him breathing really heavily in my right ear. He stopped, didn't say anything, just moved away and went into the living room. I don't know how long the incident was, it felt like forever."

The woman, who has three other children, said she picked up her phone from the living room, and barricaded herself in her bedroom with a set of drawers placed against the door while she called the boy's father and police.

She said she heard him leave the property and was advised by the 999 operator to carefully leave the room and lock the door, which she said she did.

However, defence barrister Charlotte Baines, refuted the claims, and suggested an argument had taken place between the boy and his mother after she had taken his phone and he, in an attempt to get it back from her, he had accidentally exposed her breast.

She said: "I'm going to suggest that on this occasion the show concentrated on the oldest chimp in the zoo and a keeper who had known each other 25 years or so."

The woman said: "I don't remember that."

Miss Baines continued: "I'm going to suggest that you have told the jury that you were watching the episode where a couple of chimps were mating and I'm going to suggest that you got that wrong and that didn't happen on the show did it?"

The woman replied: "Yes, it did".

Miss Baines added: "As a consequence, he didn't make any comment about a sex video and that is not true and I suggest any evidence you have given about him saying he was thinking about having sex with you that's just not true. He didn't say that to you on that day or any day at all did he?"

The woman said: "Yes, he did."

Miss Baines claimed the mum had taken the boy's phone off him as they had had a nice afternoon together and he was on his phone, and when he put it down and it "went off again" she got irritated and took it off him, which led to him trying to grab it and accidentally pulling down her top, exposing her breast.

She said: "He tried to say he was sorry but you were too upset with him and then decided to ring the police but what had happened between you two was an accident."

The woman refuted this and told the court that this "wasn't true."

She was also questioned over her statements given to police, one of which was given on the day of the alleged incident, January 4, 2018, and another four days later.

In the first statement, the woman said the boy had touched both of her breasts, but in the second statement mentioned only one.

In the courtroom, she told how he had touched both, but had only squeezed one and said on the day she gave her first statement she was "a mess" and was "hysterical and crying".

As well as the alleged assault against his mother, the 18-year-old man is also charged with engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and exposure in an alleged incident that happened just days earlier on December 30, 2017.

His sister, who was only 10 at the time of the alleged incident, appeared in court via a TV link and told how her brother had exposed his genitals in front of her and had told her "oh, oh, look, look."

The girl said that when he had heard their mother coming into the living room, he quickly pulled up his boxer shorts and joggers.

Just a few hours earlier, she said he had asked her to go on a trip to the shop and "kept asking" until their mother told him to stop as she didn't want to go.

She told the court that while they were in the kitchen together later, he whispered to her "in a funny voice", saying: "Do you know why I wanted you to come to the shop with me?"

She said she had told him "no" and walked away.

The girl said that after the later incident, she chose to sleep in her mother's room as she was "scared".

It was only when her mother had complained to police about the alleged assault against her that she told her father what had happened.

The trial continues.
 

I'm shocked.

That he was from Hull, this seems more like a Hartlepool thing...
 
University of Edinburgh is accused of 'blatant racism' for hosting an equality conference where white people are BANNED from asking questions
  • Q&A event - Resisting Whiteness 2019 - will bar Caucasian guests from speaking
  • There will also be two 'safe spaces' - one of which white people cannot enter
  • The Saturday event has intention of 'amplifying the voices of people of colour'
  • It is understood university bosses 'raised concerns' about aspects of the event
Edinburgh University has been slated for hosting an event where white people will be banned from asking questions - which has been described as 'blatantly racist'.
A Q&A event - Resisting Whiteness 2019 - will bar Caucasian guests from speaking from the floor.
There will also be two 'safe spaces' - one of which white people are banned from entering.

University bosses have 'raised concerns' about aspects of the event.

The event will take place on Saturday at the prestigious university, with the intention of 'amplifying the voices of people of colour' and giving 'people of colour a platform to talk'.
The all-day event costs up to £20 to attend, and will be held at the Pleasance Theatre.
A blurb says: 'We will therefore not be giving the microphone to white people during the Q&As, not because we don't think white people have anything to offer to the discussion, but because we want to amplify the voices of people of colour.

'If you are a white person with a question, please share it with a member of the committee or our speakers after the panel discussion.'
And it explains why white people have been barred from one of the 'safe spaces' - for people to retreat if they feel 'overwhelmed/overstimulated or uncomfortable'.
It said: 'The Braid room is a safe space for only people of colour, and the Cheviot room is available for anyone who needs it.'

Anti-racism campaigner Jane McColl, 42, of Glasgow said: 'This event is blatantly racist.
'It sets back the battle to achieve equality and fairness by decades, all because of the actions of a tiny group of extremists, whose perverse sense of logic has led them to belittle white people, not by who they are as individuals, by merely because of their skin colour.
'Imagine if this event was called 'Resisting Blackness' and non-white people were told they could not ask questions, nor access a room because they were the 'wrong' colour.'

A spokesman for the University of Edinburgh said: 'Tackling racism is an important topic for debate and the University is supportive of events addressing this issue.
'However, we are an organisation that places great value on issues around equality and voice.
'Consequently the University has met with the event organisers to ensure the event is compliant with our values.
'We have expressed our concerns to them about certain aspects of the format of the event and they are revising their 'safe space' policy for the conference as a result.'

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