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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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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
We’re at an 81% rate of vaccination we don’t need them.
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I suspect it is also motivated by the nonsense with AstraZeneca. Maybe only mildly but when Ursula, Angela and Macron all decided to throw separate shit fits during that debacle the UK doing this, and if it goes to court winning where the EU lost, is a decent PR move.

And where does the manufacturing occur? Why Scotland of course. So it's a slapdown to Sturgeon for siding with the EU during that nonsense too.

I do think the main reason is, as you say, at our current rate of vaccination we do not need them. They ordered loads from everywhere initially and the contracts negotiated had flex in them seemingly for just this sort of situation. But it is also impressively dickish to do it to many groups.
 
Looks like troon world is back on the menu boys.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ruling limiting under-16s puberty blockers overturned

The appeal decision reverses a High Court ruling that under-16s would struggle to give informed consent.
www.bbc.co.uk

Under-16s can take puberty blockers without parental consent, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
The appeal was brought by the Tavistock Trust, which runs the UK's only youth gender identity clinic.
The decision reverses a 2020 ruling that under-16s lacked capacity to give informed consent to the treatment, which delays the onset of puberty.
The original case was brought by Keira Bell, who says the clinic should have challenged her more over transitioning.
She said she was disappointed the decision, and will seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Court of Appeal judges said they recognised "the difficulties and complexities" of the issue, but that "it is for the clinicians to exercise their judgement knowing how important it is that consent is properly obtained according to the particular individual circumstances".
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I posted about the GIDS/Tavistock clinic and mentioned the original ruling in Spunt's guide to Britain thread for anyone who doesn't know about it. I'm not entirely shocked it was overturned because our judiciary is mostly run by clowns at this point (hell I'm surprised they even made the ruling in the first place). It'll be interesting to see if the Supreme Court has the balls to take this on since it revolves around the NHS and troons, two things that current year insists can do no wrong.
 
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Anybody who wants kids in the UK now is fucked! Keep them off the internet and out of public schools if you want them to become functional adults.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
In terms of getting kids to socialise with others their own age there are kids clubs and youth groups they can go to. Yeah homeschooling can be difficult to juggle but done right they’ll turn out fine.
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That’s a one way ticket to being ostracized. Homeschooling is abuse, there is no reason for it, and should be banned.
 
This is happening this weekend. I know some of the posters here know the area well enough to have an idea what Chorley is like.
www.theguardian.com

‘On the world stage’: Chorley prepares to host G7 speakers’ conference

Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle hopes meeting at his constituency will raise Lancashire town’s profile
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‘On the world stage’: Chorley prepares to host G7 speakers’ conference​

Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle hopes meeting at his constituency will raise Lancashire town’s profile


When Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, suggested to Lindsay Hoyle, her UK counterpart, that they hold the G7 speakers’ conference in “his district”, she might not have realised how enthusiastically the Lancastrian would embrace the idea.
Hoyle said that Pelosi had asked, “We always go to London, can we get out of London?”, and so this weekend politicians from the world’s richest nations will be descending on the Lancashire market town of Chorley.

And what do the town’s residents think about the influx of international visitors, as well as the inevitable heavy police presence and road closures? “They’re saying ‘blinking heck Linds, I didn’t think you’d get them here!’,” said Hoyle, who has been the constituency’s MP since 1997, although he first represented the town aged 22 in 1980 as a councillor. One high street store, Maidens, has adapted its window display to recreate Paul Smith’s Parisian boutique, in an effort to welcome the international guests.
The speakers from each of the G7 nations will be discussing how to maintain open parliaments while keeping members safe and how to ensure the “democratic process remains intact” following the violent Capitol Hill attack in the US, a shooting at the Canadian parliament in 2014, and the murder of a British police officer in the Palace of Westminster in 2017.
Hoyle hopes the conference will also “put Chorley on the world stage”, ensuring the town becomes “part of the overseas tourist circuit”. After being greeted by a town crier, the delegates will discuss thorny issues such as the role of social media in open parliaments at Astley Hall, a Grade I listed historic house, surrounded by a lake and historic woodland, where trees will be planted to represent each attending country.
The US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, arrives for a meeting with Boris Johnson at Downing Street, before the G7 conference in Chorley. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Astley Hall is midway through a renovation, and until a few weeks ago, had scaffolding outside, with its Jacobean plasterwork ceilings and Elizabethan courtyard shut off to all visitors. The speakers’ conference gave “a greater focus to keep to the timetable”, said Peter Wilson, the deputy leader of Chorley council. “We have a great sense of pride in our historic asset of Astley Hall – the real jewel in the crown, which is an overused phrase but it is actually very apt.”

What will Hoyle be serving his counterparts from the legislatures of Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Italy and the US? He was excited to nod to a local story (although some historians doubt its veracity) that during a visit to the area in 1617, King James I was so enamoured with a joint of beef, he drew his sword and knighted it “Sir Loin”.
“I said ‘let’s give them a taste of Lancashire beef – the sirloin that was knighted in Chorley – the face that we’ve got Morecambe Bay shrimps, Lancashire cheese, Chorley cakes … we’ve got some real things for people to remember. I think that’s important to them as well as myself, to actually show that there’s great agricultural produce in Lancashire,” he said.
Hoyle is also keen to show Pelosi the links Chorley has with America, including as the birthplace of Myles Standish, a passenger on the Pilgrim ship Mayflower, one of the early colonists of new America. An American flag, stands over the Standish pew at St Lawrence’s church, where delegates will attend a service on Sunday.
“The flag itself at St Lawrence’s is rather threadbare,” Hoyle explained, because it is the same flag gifted to the church when American soldiers stationed at the town’s military base left to fight on the beaches of Normandy. “I understand that Speaker Pelosi is going to present a new flag to the church. So, you know, those types of bonds are being reestablished as well”.
And will his menagerie of wild animals named after politicians be introduced? No, says Hoyle. Boris the parrot, Maggie the tortoise and Dennis the American cat will be left in the care of the Speaker’s father, the former Labour MP Doug Hoyle. “He’s the zookeeper,” said Hoyle. “I’ve got to keep them on their best behaviour.”
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Hot Cup of Joe said:
Is this part of Boris's plan to get more recognition for the North? Respect if so.
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Our current speaker is a Chorley lad. Hence why he's willing to get into slapfights over odd stuff like the brief beans nonsense.

I'm honestly impressed. He got some prominent speakers in the free world to Chorley, a place which while I am fond of has the local pubs offering cut price booze on market days. A place many people are only aware of because of Peter Kay's joke "Chorley FM, cumming in your ears." I would applaud Hoyle if I ever met him for that alone.

Also I suspect the French seething during this will be so extensive the entire region will reek of garlic for the next month.
 
AnOminous said:
Maybe they hope to avoid the usual riots and bullshit whenever the G7 meets anywhere.
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It's fair to say that the majority of Londoners may not be able to make their way to Chorley. Neither the M1 nor M6 motorways take them right to it, how can they possibly be expected to find it?
As such while it's not the real G7 but the speakers G7 I would wager it'll be tricky. Not impossible, Manchester has its problems with the Extinction Rebellion stains so they are aware of the approximate area but I think it might still be safe.
 
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