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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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Exterminatus said:
Instead of a Green New Deal the article calls it a "green industrial revolution".
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They've been pushing this idea of a "new industrial revolution" for most of the last year, at least out in public. It's been the stock phrase for a while longer, behind the scenes.

I suppose they're working on the assumption that, if they dress everything up in the language of bottom-up social revolution, they can con people into believing it's another of the historic civilizational changes that we all learned about in history, instead of as massive expansion of the state to control more of our lives. So, call it the "industrial revolution", and have people thinking of inventors and civic heroes who fought against the moribund status quo and the vested interests of the aristocracy and the stick-in-the-mud politicians, instead of looking at what's actually happening.

It fucking works, too, even with people I had believed, to now, were bright enough to see through such obvious manipulation. The covid shit has everyone so tied up in knots that they're just not taking the time to examine the lies they're being fed.
 
It'sallabitsillyreally said:
I'm waiting for the outraged screams in a day or two when people realise he was spared but a female underling was given the boot for less.
Today it's just watching the Twitter feed for his fans demanding he lead them to true true socialism and everyone taking the effortlessly lined up shot presented.
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Haha he wasn't given the whip back. He may be in the party but he's not a Labor MP.

The cockblocking is fantastic.
 
So...What's stopping him from just taking his seat as usual anyways aside from possibly being booted out? The man has already rebelled plenty of votes even when he was third lined whipped before and nothing happened to him.

All this over a bunch of Jews and mooslims. The more they keep going on about it, the more I'm betting people are gonna support antisemitism out of spite.
 
teriyakiburns said:
They've been pushing this idea of a "new industrial revolution" for most of the last year, at least out in public. It's been the stock phrase for a while longer, behind the scenes.

I suppose they're working on the assumption that, if they dress everything up in the language of bottom-up social revolution, they can con people into believing it's another of the historic civilizational changes that we all learned about in history, instead of as massive expansion of the state to control more of our lives. So, call it the "industrial revolution", and have people thinking of inventors and civic heroes who fought against the moribund status quo and the vested interests of the aristocracy and the stick-in-the-mud politicians, instead of looking at what's actually happening.

It fucking works, too, even with people I had believed, to now, were bright enough to see through such obvious manipulation. The covid shit has everyone so tied up in knots that they're just not taking the time to examine the lies they're being fed.
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kcbbq said:
Haha he wasn't given the whip back. He may be in the party but he's not a Labor MP.

The cockblocking is fantastic.
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Even better.
I also missed that he'd apparently walked back his remarks according to the news;


 
Ly Erg said:
So...What's stopping him from just taking his seat as usual anyways aside from possibly being booted out? The man has already rebelled plenty of votes even when he was third lined whipped before and nothing happened to him.
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He was never not an MP, just an independent after getting kicked out of the party and being stripped of the whip. Now he's a labor party member, but still not as an MP. He gets his seat, because he was elected, but as an independent MP still.

He must be seething, especially when he must have thought he did enough halfheartedly backtracking his statements.
 
Outrage as Radio 1 refuses to play the original version of Fairytale Of New York because of naughty words.

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Fairytale of New York: BBC Radio 1 will not play original version

The station says its young listeners may be offended by some of the Christmas classic's lyrics.
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At least 6Music remains cool, citing it as an individual DJ's decision.
 
CWCissey said:
Outrage as Radio 1 refuses to play the original version of Fairytale Of New York because of naughty words.

www.bbc.co.uk

Fairytale of New York: BBC Radio 1 will not play original version

The station says its young listeners may be offended by some of the Christmas classic's lyrics.
www.bbc.co.uk

At least 6Music remains cool, citing it as an individual DJ's decision.
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"The track was censored by Radio 1 back in 2007, but that decision was swiftly reversed after an outcry by its fans.
Andy Parfitt, the station's controller at the time, explained the U-turn by saying its audiences were "smart enough to distinguish between maliciousness and creative freedom", and there was no "negative intent behind the use of the words"."

Whereas today's Radio 1 audience apparently aren't that smart.
 
It'sallabitsillyreally said:
"The track was censored by Radio 1 back in 2007, but that decision was swiftly reversed after an outcry by its fans.
Andy Parfitt, the station's controller at the time, explained the U-turn by saying its audiences were "smart enough to distinguish between maliciousness and creative freedom", and there was no "negative intent behind the use of the words"."

Whereas today's Radio 1 audience apparently aren't that smart.
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Well have you listened to Radio 1 recently?
 
CWCissey said:
I wouldn't recommend it.

Even Radio 2 has declined horribly, Hell 6Music seems to be going through a bit of a blip at the mo!
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Shame.
Radio 4 comedy is still okay, though I did miss Rich Hall's election breakdown this year. I suspect he probably wished he could have missed it too given how it panned out.
 
It'sallabitsillyreally said:
"The track was censored by Radio 1 back in 2007, but that decision was swiftly reversed after an outcry by its fans.
Andy Parfitt, the station's controller at the time, explained the U-turn by saying its audiences were "smart enough to distinguish between maliciousness and creative freedom", and there was no "negative intent behind the use of the words"."

Whereas today's Radio 1 audience apparently aren't that smart.
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It's really pathetic, because it's probably the best bit of writing MacGowan has done. The characters in the song are supposed to be horribly unlikeable, not a politically correct, milquetoast junkie and alcoholic. Sanitizing the song takes away the entire point of it.
 
CWCissey said:
Launceston police officer facing jail for having sex with a woman in the disabled bogs

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"The woman was reporting a crime when Wilson approached her, asking if she wanted to "get with a man in uniform".

She followed him into the unisex disabled toilet where they engaged in sexual activity, the court heard."

I wonder what crime she was reporting and how that conversation went.
"Officer, I'd like make a report, I saw a child get abducted!"
"Nevermind that, wanna fuck?"
"Yeah, sure, I'll meet you in the loo."
 
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