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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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Chive Turkey said:
She's on now, it hasn't helped.

I've never heard her speak before, Jesus fucking Christ she's awful. Jeremy and Boris look venerable by comparison.
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This is what happens when you become leader of the party that's essentially a garbage pile for politicians sick of their own parties.
 
Fareal said:
Jo Swinson’s appearance was an absolute garbage fire. That was Prince Andrew levels of awful. Pretty sure she is the only one tonight who actually drove sympathetic voters away from voting for her party.
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That just made her shit flinging about being left out of BoJo Vs Tragic Grandpa even funnier.
 
Corbyn not happy with his totally fully costed political Christmas wishlist he has decided to add 58 billion to costs by saying he’d back pay women for changing their pensions to be the same as men - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50534118

Also being the woke party that they are they also want transphobic words like ‘Transsexual’ to banned and gender to be entirely based on how you identify -
In a statement yesterday, a Labour spokesperson said: “Our commitment to reforming the Gender Recognition Act, to introduce self-declaration for transgender people, is undimmed.

“Labour will amend the Equality Act 2010 to ensure it protects trans people by changing the protected characteristic of ‘gender assignment’ to ‘gender identity’ and removing other outdated language such as ‘transsexual’.

“The Equality Act will continue to allow for separate and single-sex services, providing that such treatment by a provider is justified, but no spaces will be permitted to discriminate against trans people.”
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www.theguardian.com

Confused messages from Labour over women-only spaces and trans rights

Campaigners concerned that party’s pledge to keep refuges, prisons and changing rooms single-sex has been diluted
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And in Scotland the SNP say not only would a Scottish referendum be needed for a coalition with Labour they would also need for Labour to agree to scrap Trident - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-SNP-Labour-Jeremy-Corbyn-scraps-Trident.html
 
Sable said:
At this point I think 'ol Tragic is aware he's going to lose, and that's why he's promising the moon.

Or not, you never really know with Corbyn.
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It all comes down to the Tory manifesto. Will they boomer it up like May did by bringing in easy emotional talking points like fox hunting and dementia tax. If there is one thing I am sure the tories are capable of, it's fucking up a great lead in the polls.
 
Slimy Time said:
It all comes down to the Tory manifesto. Will they boomer it up like May did by bringing in easy emotional talking points like fox hunting and dementia tax. If there is one thing I am sure the tories are capable of, it's fucking up a great lead in the polls.
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I think Boris has learned, but the party are still a bit thick. It could go either way.

All I know is the chimping from Labour Twitter is hilarious.
 
CWCissey said:
I think Boris has learned, but the party are still a bit thick. It could go either way.

All I know is the chimping from Labour Twitter is hilarious.
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Oh no doubt, they will find anything to latch onto to make the Tories out as heartless monsters who want to kill off the poor. Labours manifesto is to promise everything under the sun and hide their view on Brexit (the entire reason for this election) away in the middle of the manifesto, with it amounting it to a 2nd ref with Brexit being a complete BRINO. Talk about sitting on the fence. Even their manifesto is directionless on that issue.
 
Slimy Time said:
Oh no doubt, they will find anything to latch onto to make the Tories out as heartless monsters who want to kill off the poor. Labours manifesto is to promise everything under the sun and hide their view on Brexit (the entire reason for this election) away in the middle of the manifesto, with it amounting it to a 2nd ref with Brexit being a complete BRINO. Talk about sitting on the fence. Even their manifesto is directionless on that issue.
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I just pray the polls are right this time. A healthy Tory majority would lead to some delicious salt.
 
I'm still absolutely at a loss as to explain how Labour thought that having Corbyn head their party was a good idea. Allegations of spying for both the Soviet Union and communist Czechoslovakia as well as acting as a disruptive agent for either or both have followed him for nearly 40 years, which one would think should be enough of a blemish on his character that he'd best be kept well away from positions of responsibility - or cameras.
 
SigueSigueSpergnik said:
I'm still absolutely at a loss as to explain how Labour thought that having Corbyn head their party was a good idea. Allegations of spying for both the Soviet Union and communist Czechoslovakia as well as acting as a disruptive agent for either or both have followed him for nearly 40 years, which one would think should be enough of a blemish on his character that he'd best be kept well away from positions of responsibility - or cameras.
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Momentum gonna moment.

Plus Tory sabotage in the Leader elections.
 
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