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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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Rancid Flid said:
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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After this and giving money to nogs for their race war they don't deserve their nice stone building that the sensible people who used to reside there built.
 
AnOminous said:
And of course it's the man who gets rammed. This is why you don't intervene in anything involving some crazed cunt who thinks fighting a car is a good idea.
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Always simps and white knights who are stupid enough to do that. Bet you she won't do a thing for being flung into a pole. If there is one thing any man should learn, it's never intervene on behalf of a woman doing something crazy/stupid.
 
ARMY chiefs are considering allowing male soldiers to wear make-up.

Only female troops are allowed cosmetics while on duty under Queen’s Regulations.

Officials have now admitted they are re-considering the ban so lads can put on some slap while on duty.

An Army spokesperson said: “As an inclusive employer that recognises the diversity of its personnel, we are currently in the process of revising our guidance in this area to make it gender neutral.”

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Army chiefs to end ban on male soldiers wearing make-up while on duty

ARMY chiefs are considering allowing male soldiers to wear make-up. Only female troops are allowed cosmetics while on duty under Queen’s Regulations. But some military personnel accused the Army of…
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This sounds like that Monty Python sketch... the queers marching/dancing.
 
TBF so long as they can do their jobs I don't really care what's on their face.

If we're being honest, with the army being who they are a bunch of squaddies are probably going to try and take the piss by being as ridiculous with it as they can whilst getting away with it.
 
Video of the two men critically wounded after being shot in Ilford, London on Saturday.
It said in news one was shotgunned in the face, doesn't look like it to me.
They look like Muslim immigrants or maybe Albanians.

 
EasyPeasy said:
ARMY chiefs are considering allowing male soldiers to wear make-up.

Only female troops are allowed cosmetics while on duty under Queen’s Regulations.

Officials have now admitted they are re-considering the ban so lads can put on some slap while on duty.

An Army spokesperson said: “As an inclusive employer that recognises the diversity of its personnel, we are currently in the process of revising our guidance in this area to make it gender neutral.”

www.thesun.co.uk

Army chiefs to end ban on male soldiers wearing make-up while on duty

ARMY chiefs are considering allowing male soldiers to wear make-up. Only female troops are allowed cosmetics while on duty under Queen’s Regulations. But some military personnel accused the Army of…
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This sounds like that Monty Python sketch... the queers marching/dancing.
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Who is hiring the people making these decisions? Ffs, it's the military, a job where your role boils down to killing others and avoiding being killed. It's the one place where garbage like this should stay the hell away.

What happened to FIFO? Fit In or Fuck Off?
 
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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.
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dopedodo said:
To everyone's surprise, this dude turned out to be white.

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Face of teenager accused of throwing boy off floor at the Tate Modern

Jonty Bravery (pictured) is alleged to have snatched the child from his mother's arms and hurled him from the tenth floor of the Tate Modern in front of horrified onlookers.
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His instagram is here: https://www.instagram.com/jontyoliverbravery/ (Sorry, can't get an archive to save it.)
It only contains one photo...
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...and other people have noticed it, going by the sudden surge in comments on it.

Some news sites (eg https://en.mogaznews.com/World-News...a-boy-of-six-off-10th-floor-of-the-Tate-.html [archive: https://archive.li/hD2vr]) have shared this image of Mr Bravery as a child, dressed as Jack from "Jack and the Beanstalk":
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Although the image is now removed, its source appears to have been this collection on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hammersmithandfulham/albums/72157614992896373/ . The collection shows a book-themed costume day in March 2009, at Queen's Manor Primary School in London. Jonty Bravery can still be seen in costumed group in image #3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hammersmithandfulham/3343459591/in/album-72157614992896373/) :
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Nothing good ever came from someone called "Jonty." Only parents with something wrong with them would name a kid that and he obviously inherited whatever it was.
 
Oh Blue Peter noooooooooooooooo.

I remember when you encouraged kids to build a fucking BBQ pit.
 
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The Lib Dems are using data to profile every voter in UK - and give you a score

The party is categorising voters and using a sophisticated computer model to generate the scores.
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The Liberal Democrats are profiling every voter in the country by rating their political preferences, Sky News can reveal.

This includes which party they will vote for in the next election and whether they are a Remainer or Leaver.

The percentage ratings - there are at least 42 in total, although the identity of only 37 are known - estimate whether someone voted Leave or Remain in the 2016 EU referendum and predict how they would vote if there was a second poll in 2019.

Other scored characteristics include "Likelihood of being a Labour voter in 2019", "Likelihood of being a core Lib Dem" and "Net difference in likelihood of voting for the Conservative or Brexit Party in 2019".

The system, which uses a sophisticated computer model to generate the scores, also assesses personal outlooks, giving a percentage to "Likelihood of being a pragmatic liberal".

The Liberal Democrats also use software which estimates the age and first language of voters by analysing their names.
The name Rowland Manthorpe, for instance, is categorised as "older: probably older".

The name Rowland Manthorpe is categorised as older: probably older

The name Rowland Manthorpe is categorised as 'older: probably older'

This kind of scoring system is commonly used by political parties in the UK and the US, but new data transparency laws which allow anyone to ask for their data give an unprecedented glimpse into how a major party operates.

Matthew Rice, Scotland director of digital campaign organisation Open Rights Group, was assigned nine scores by the Liberal Democrats. In a possible 2019 election, it gave him a 15% chance of voting Liberal Democrat, a 22% chance of voting Brexit Party and a 20% chance of voting Conservative.

In a second EU referendum, Mr Rice was deemed 77% likely to vote Remain.
The scores assigned to Matthew Rice, Scotland director of digital campaign organisation Open Rights Group

The scores assigned to Matthew Rice, Scotland director of digital campaign organisation Open Rights Group

"The scores don't necessarily represent my values, but for all intents and purposes, for the Liberal Democrats, this is me," he told Sky News.
"They've decided where I sit on a political spectrum and in a general election they will define me based on these scores. That does feel quite intrusive. It doesn't feel reflective of what you would want from a democratic culture."

The data used to create the scores comes from a range of sources, including the UK electoral register, phone and doorstep canvassing, anonymous online surveys, and publicly available data such as census area classifications, which categorise different regions according to their populations.

The Liberal Democrats also employed "consumer/market research data", which it bought from a third party. This information on lifestyle and financial behaviour is frequently used by political parties to target voters in specific areas.
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The Liberal Democrats are profiling every voter in the country by rating their political preferences.

Asked about the purpose of the scores, the Liberal Democrats told Sky News they were used to decide which people would receive campaign leaflets.

The party denied that the scoring system was used to target ads on social media, although Rob Blackie, a digital strategist who is standing as a Lib Dem candidate for the London Assembly, said that was technically possible.

"The voter scores will tell you that certain types of people are more likely to vote for a party. People who are younger who've been to university are much more likely to care about Brexit and to be anti-Brexit, and people who are older are much more likely to be pro-Brexit," said Mr Blackie.

"You could use the Facebook targeting tools to target people you've identified through your voter scoring, although it is much harder to target individuals since the changes in the law, and the Lib Dems tend to be very cautious about that."

Data protection law prohibits processing of "special categories of personal data", including data on political affiliation, but grants political parties an exemption as long as there is "substantial public interest".

However, data protection experts warned that the Liberal Democrats' automated profiling fell into a legal grey area and could be challenged by the data watchdog, which is currently investigating political parties' use of data.
Pat Walshe: 'I'm at a loss to understand the lawful basis'


"I'm at a loss to understand the lawful basis the Lib Dems have relied on for this," said Pat Walshe, managing director of privacy matters.
"The information commissioner's office should look at this and investigate again the use of personal data by political parties, because that profiling is deeper and more intense than the average person would expect and understand."

In a statement, the Lib Dems told Sky News: "The party complies with all relevant UK and European data protection legislation. We take the GDPR principle of transparency very seriously and state the ways we may use personal data clearly within the privacy policy on our website."
Mr Blackie also defended the scoring system, saying it helped save weary voters from unwelcome canvassing.

"The key thing for all political parties is, we don't want to knock on the doors of people who hate us, so one of the things it helps us to do is only talk to the people who want to hear from us," he said.

"Generally speaking it does help people by improving the targeting."

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Scum who deserve to get yelled at are doing all they can to avoid facing any punishment.
 
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