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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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Of course, social media was the inroad. The mention of them tracking 'Lifestyle and Financial behavior" is the terrifying part, IMO. That implies corporate collusion.
 
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"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.

"We really don't want to leave our political safe space or have our values challenged, only certified Lib Dems may talk to me."
 
Racist Trash said:
"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.

"We really don't want to leave our political safe space or have our values challenged, only certified Lib Dems may talk to me."
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They are Lib Dems. They get nothing compared to Tory door knocking. I did some a couple years ago when I still lived in the UK, you have to get used to all sorts of fucking insane people (hardcore Labour supporters) screaming like lunatics for daring to knock or push a slip of paper through their pigeon hole, even had some try to get physical with some of the canvassers. The Lib Dem guys when I was there would half-heartedly push a slip through the door, usually not putting it all the way through, then move on without bothering to talk to them, so of course we pulled the slips out before we knocked.

These are the guys who bring that EU official Guy Versuckacock to canvas for them. Of course they take him around the safe areas because God forbid there be an incident where a likely lad decks him across the face. I think this may actually be the first time the Lib Dems get some real hate for the BS they push, so it's no wonder the like to stay in their safe space.
 
Why not add in a social credit system too? Alot food tokens by how loyal you are to the Juche?
Maybe do away with pesky naysayers, you know, tidy up those demographics a bit? I'm sure you could rustle up some feudal lords to run the peasants into the correct gates and off with their heads if they don't move quick enough, right?
Really find out who's on your team!
 
Sounds like a simple logarithmic regression model using dummy variables to forecast someone's political leanings. This is hardly a new concept.
 
Sadiq Khan's £1.7million Twitter 'Hate Crime Hub' has prosecuted just six trolls in two years

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Sadiq Khan's 'Hate Crime Hub' prosecuted just six trolls in two years

The London Mayor promised a zero-tolerance stance towards abuse on social media when the police unit was launched more than two years ago, which is staffed by five Scotland Yard officers.
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Kahn't strikes again
 
Sounds like there’s another Rotherham pedophile rape gang situation in Telford:
Telford abuse victim was raped by 500 men from 11 - but cops chose to prosecute her
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For four years, until she was 19, she fell under the control of a man who hawked her around like a piece of meat.


Jennifer claims police refused to intervene and repeatedly arrested her for prostitution from the age of 16 to 19, despite her plea she was being exploited.

Yet not one of her abusers has been brought to justice despite multiple reports to police. Jennifer says: “I must have been raped by more than 500 men.

"When I told the police, they told me I’d chosen my lifestyle. I asked to make a statement because I’d been raped and beaten by so many men and I wanted it to stop.

"An officer said, ‘You’re a common prostitute. Don’t you think that comes with the job?’ He said a jury would never believe I was a victim of abuse.

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Many Telford victims say most of their abusers were from the Pakistani community but Jennifer says she was sold to anyone willing to pay.
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'I was raped by 500 men from the age of 11 - but cops chose to prosecute me'

EXCLUSIVE: Let down by authorities after a seven-year ordeal, Jennifer tells the Sunday Mirror for the first time how it was she who was left with a criminal record
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There’s a lot of similarities such as the police blaming the victims (From the Rotherham case):
They said you must never refer to that again, you must never refer to Asian men," she said.

"And [the] other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity course to raise my awareness of ethnic issues."

A chapter of her draft report contained severe criticisms of agencies working to tackle the abuse including "alleged indifference towards, and ignorance of, child sexual exploitation on the part of senior managers".

It also stated: "Responsibility was continuously placed on young people's shoulders rather than with the suspected abusers."
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Abuse researcher 'faced hostility'

A Home Office researcher who wrote a report on sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham in 2002 tells BBC Panorama she faced 'hostility' from the council.
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And to get all tin foil hat, regarding the police department who originally ignored her claims and blamed her:
The available information shows that between 1989 and 2008, thirty-three officers and one member of police staff attended training courses organised by Common Purpose at a cost of around £93,000.
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From Wikipedia (Since the original article was deleted):
On 25 November, The Daily Telegraph too published a comment piece on CPUK, noting that the Rotherham Director of Children's Services, Joyce Thacker, heavily criticised in the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, was a member of CPUK, and noting that Common Purpose had been described as "[a] secretive Fabian organisation [… that] has been described as a Left-wing version of the Freemasons.
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Common Purpose UK - Wikipedia

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Oh it seems it's an old story, just one places like the BBC are refusing to take seriously:
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The BBC's shameful silence on the Telford sex scandal | The Spectator

Last month, I wrote here about the BBC and ‘grooming gangs’. In particular, I speculated that it was unlikely that having once (after more than a decade) dramatized the mass gang-rape of British girls (and a man from Wales having partly been fired-up by it then ploughing a van into a crowd...
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Come on America, just fucking nuke us already. We don't deserve to be an anything at this point in time.
Oh well, at least self-id has been kicked to the kerb...

Edit fucking predictive text.
 
I don't understand what the big deal is.

Lib Dems are scum, which is why Ashton dogfucker Challenor run away there.
"Consumer/market research companies" already exist and sell you data to everyone.

These are the problems. Someone seeing you're named "Gaylord", cross-referencing it with the baby name data which says there were 300 baby Gaylords in the 1970s but only 15 in the 1980s, and concluding you're 20 times more likely to have been born in the 70s, is not a problem.
 
Dunno if this has been posted yet but, a woman gets stabbed in London, and the police are so incompetent that the assailant who stabbed her is standing RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO THEM as shes dying on the street.

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“Woman stabbed to death on the UK streets. She never stood a chance. A failed society. https://t.co/4UipvYcCqa”
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Nuke England. The only thing I'll miss from them is James Bond.
 
I always wonder if Chris Morris just fucking gave up in the face of events.

I mean, if you ever read TVGoHome, you can see why Charlie Brooker took up writing science fiction: he had already predicted the fucking future of television.
 
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