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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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That guardian meme is clearly parody/criticism, does not usurp the market and only uses as much copy right material as is necessary to make the parody/criticism. Very clearly fair use, fuck you Guardian censors.
 
Coccxys said:
That guardian meme is clearly parody/criticism, does not usurp the market and only uses as much copy right material as is necessary to make the parody/criticism. Very clearly fair use, fuck you Guardian censors.
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They're just mad that the meme generator is more well liked than their rag.
 
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/son-killed-mum-hammer-attack-22617502
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-53989980

'Robert Child has admitted murdering his mum. A son who killed his mum in a hammer attack said she was a "Brexit-voting halfwit", a court has heard. Psychologist Robert Child, 37, admits that he murdered his mum Janice but denies he killed her for financial gain. He is claimed to have had £32,000 of debt at the time of his mum's death, Liverpool Echo reports. His mum's body was found locked in the utility room of her home in Woolton, Liverpool, on March 6.

A Newton hearing at Liverpool Crown Court heard the day before his mum's body was found Child transferred £25,000 from her bank account into his.

When police went to inform him about her death he was out buying a £14,000 Jaguar car. Giving evidence via video-link, Child's friend Philip Walker, who worked with him at the University of Liverpool, said he had the impression Child did not get on with his mum. He said Child forwarded him a message in February sent by his mum in which she suggested he stockpile food because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The court heard Child then referred to his mum as "the Brexit-voting halfwit."

Mrs Child was found with 31 wounds, believed to have been caused by a hammer and another weapon, after neighbours contacted police when they were alerted by her dachshund Alfie barking in the early hours of the morning.'
 
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"Academic" .... check
Soft "science" .... check
Pissed off about the result of a democratic process not going their way .... check
Thinks violence against someone who thinks differently is ok .... check mate

Yup, whiny developmentally stunted leftist identified.
 
I amazed how your country got super cucked faster than ours. Like police in Britain don't carry guns if I remember right and yet so much oppression.

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Birmingham to Force 'Race Equality' Education on Politicians and Schools

Birmingham Council will create a fast track recruitment programme for ethnic minorities and force staff to undertake "equalities training".
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Birmingham Council is set to create a fast track recruitment programme for ethnic minorities, force staff to undertake “equalities training” and launch a new “race equality” curriculum in schools.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, which is funded by many of the world’s biggest corporations, the multicultural city will also review street names, monuments, statues, and public art displays to ensure that they “properly reflect and respect the city’s history and communities”.

A plan drawn up by the Labour council leader Ian Ward and his cabinet includes measures to monitor equality of outcome between ethnic groups in areas including pay and health, BirminghamLive reports.

It includes a raft of proposals for advancing the career opportunities for non-white people at Birmingham City Council, including that shortlists for all staff vacancies must have at least one ethnic minority, and the creation of a “fast track recruitment and development programme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people”.

In addition, “every elected councillor and every member of staff will be required to participate in mandatory equalities training, which will take place at least annually”.

According to the Midlands-based media outlet, the council will also work with historians to create a new curriculum highlighting the so-called diversity of the city, as well as with “partners in the education and community sectors to develop a new ‘Race Equality education programme’ for use in Birmingham’s schools”.

A report prepared on behalf of the council asserts: “The unprecedented socio-economic crisis created by COVID-19, together with the global calls for justice articulated by the Black Lives Matter anti-racism movement, have starkly highlighted the extent to which injustice, inequality and discrimination persist within our society.”

The review of public monuments and artworks in Birmingham follows the lead of London mayor Sadiq Khan, who in June announced that the capital would be looking at street names, statues, and landmarks to remove and replace in the name of reflecting the city’s “diversity”.

Soon after, the Labour Party disclosed that it would be conducting similar reviews at all 130 councils across the United Kingdom where they are in power, Breitbart London previously reported.

On Thursday, the Bar Standards Board (BSB), which regulates barristers and specialised legal services businesses in England and Wales, launched a “reverse mentoring scheme” in which senior white barristers are given junior barristers from ethnic minority backgrounds as mentors.

The scheme is hoping to “address the barriers to race equality at the Bar, by providing insight into people’s experiences of racism”, according to a press release from the board.

One of the scheme’s first mentees, Paul Stanley QC of Essex Court Chambers, commented: “I know it will make me a better anti-racist ally, and help me to change myself and the profession for the better.”

His mentor, “black female Bar student and race equality activist” Elisha Lindsay, said: “Seeing how receptive members of the Bar are to hearing and learning about anti-racist practices and achieving true diversity within the Bar gives me hope for a more inclusive environment.”
 
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I amazed how your country got super cucked faster than ours. Like police in Britain don't carry guns if I remember right and yet so much oppression.

www.breitbart.com

Birmingham to Force 'Race Equality' Education on Politicians and Schools

Birmingham Council will create a fast track recruitment programme for ethnic minorities and force staff to undertake "equalities training".
www.breitbart.com www.breitbart.com


Birmingham Council is set to create a fast track recruitment programme for ethnic minorities, force staff to undertake “equalities training” and launch a new “race equality” curriculum in schools.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, which is funded by many of the world’s biggest corporations, the multicultural city will also review street names, monuments, statues, and public art displays to ensure that they “properly reflect and respect the city’s history and communities”.

A plan drawn up by the Labour council leader Ian Ward and his cabinet includes measures to monitor equality of outcome between ethnic groups in areas including pay and health, BirminghamLive reports.

It includes a raft of proposals for advancing the career opportunities for non-white people at Birmingham City Council, including that shortlists for all staff vacancies must have at least one ethnic minority, and the creation of a “fast track recruitment and development programme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people”.

In addition, “every elected councillor and every member of staff will be required to participate in mandatory equalities training, which will take place at least annually”.

According to the Midlands-based media outlet, the council will also work with historians to create a new curriculum highlighting the so-called diversity of the city, as well as with “partners in the education and community sectors to develop a new ‘Race Equality education programme’ for use in Birmingham’s schools”.

A report prepared on behalf of the council asserts: “The unprecedented socio-economic crisis created by COVID-19, together with the global calls for justice articulated by the Black Lives Matter anti-racism movement, have starkly highlighted the extent to which injustice, inequality and discrimination persist within our society.”

The review of public monuments and artworks in Birmingham follows the lead of London mayor Sadiq Khan, who in June announced that the capital would be looking at street names, statues, and landmarks to remove and replace in the name of reflecting the city’s “diversity”.

Soon after, the Labour Party disclosed that it would be conducting similar reviews at all 130 councils across the United Kingdom where they are in power, Breitbart London previously reported.

On Thursday, the Bar Standards Board (BSB), which regulates barristers and specialised legal services businesses in England and Wales, launched a “reverse mentoring scheme” in which senior white barristers are given junior barristers from ethnic minority backgrounds as mentors.

The scheme is hoping to “address the barriers to race equality at the Bar, by providing insight into people’s experiences of racism”, according to a press release from the board.

One of the scheme’s first mentees, Paul Stanley QC of Essex Court Chambers, commented: “I know it will make me a better anti-racist ally, and help me to change myself and the profession for the better.”

His mentor, “black female Bar student and race equality activist” Elisha Lindsay, said: “Seeing how receptive members of the Bar are to hearing and learning about anti-racist practices and achieving true diversity within the Bar gives me hope for a more inclusive environment.”
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Birmingham is basically wog central/british detroit so no big surprise.
Also lol if you want to hand the paedo force weapons or any more power than they currently have.
 
Coccxys said:
"Academic" .... check
Soft "science" .... check
Pissed off about the result of a democratic process not going their way .... check
Thinks violence against someone who thinks differently is ok .... check mate

Yup, whiny developmentally stunted leftist identified.
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Psychologist.

Figures. The loons who are attracted to that subject ....
 
LetThemEatCake said:
Psychologist.

Figures. The loons who are attracted to that subject ....
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Definitely. The most disfunctional, emotionally unstable, crippled by mental health person I know keeps trying to become a therapist. Every year follows the same cycle, celebrating they got onto the course all over Facebook, spending a few months complaining how hard it is to do alongside their mental issues, crying about how the college won't help and no one understands her then finally dropping out and suicide "give me attention" posts about how they should just give up. If they ever become a therapist I will seriously pity her patients.
 
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In the Gay Village no less!
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And it's totally not a hate crime. We know that because, well, the police told us that. You know, the same police who let this dude go around stabbing people in the gayborhood for hours without even issuing a description of the subject despite having him on CCTV.
 
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