UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

Destacado
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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs
2764.png


7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See spread happiness's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See pg often's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.
Presiona para expandir...

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.
 
Última edición por un moderador:
Presiona para expandir...
Morethanabitfoolish dijo:
Oxford Mail claims the people putting up flags are a roving band of racists Scousers. Source, a single unnamed person
Presiona para expandir...
An how was were the roving band identified as Scousers?
Simple, really.
The single unnamed source swore that as they was putting up the flags he heard one of them say " G'wed. Tell em that bit of road behind the 'ouses is called a jigger, or if your antwacky , an ennog."
 
Made In Wales dijo:
Strange, but then again YT has been weird recently - either not loading videos, or demanding to know your age or 'you must have an account to view the video... and you're not allowed to not see the ads.'
Presiona para expandir...
That's how it's been for a while. They've demanded to see ID for years now if you're trying to watch age restricted content. They also hate vpns and all proxies and fucking everything. They're not trying to comply with the osa or anything like that, they just want to know your location and be able to track you easier. You know, youtube, the company owned by google which tracks your wifi strength to roughly determine the shape and layout of your house so that it knows when you are on the toilet (lacking any other form of stimulation and more likely to sit through ads/pay more attention to them) or when you're in bed (more likely to make regrettable purchases while half asleep). Adblock still works fine for me though, ublock lite on chrome, they slow the video down and force it to buffer but I would much rather have a short patch of silence than fill it with an ad.

Also if you want to archive a video you probably want to use PreserveTube. A lot of archive sites will simply archive everything around the video itself. Here's the video you linked but on pt.
Sensitive Young Man dijo:
You guys are getting a color revolution aren't you
Presiona para expandir...
God no. I'm not dying in a fucking color revolution. Now a colour revolution, now we're talking. Tommy going to israel is just because he's also jewish and they probably want to still have that foot in the door with reform. That or he just wanted yet another holiday.
 
Amin Yasister dijo:
Even if my MP is a Tory, and is against Digital ID and illegal immigration?
Presiona para expandir...
Yes.

Red and blue are both different sides of the same shitty coin.

Illegal immigration and distribution of benefits to illegals flourished under the blue party. They had nearly a decade and a half to sort this shit out and the failed,completely and intentionally.

What your MP wants and stands for is irrelevant. At the end of the day they'll do what they're told to do by those above them.
 
You know if the Tories wanted to claw some votes back from Reform they should make the re-introduction of capital punishment part of their manifesto. Little would signal they mean business the way that would and I reckon the country is about ready for it.
 
I agree with Dear Sneeder's advice that you should tell politicians when they do something good and that you will continue to vote for them for anti-immigration views or whatever. They are soulless husks who thrive off attention, give it them when they are good.

Anyway does anyone give a fuck about the Tory party anymore...? here's what she's announcing (god i hate how they pre-announce things to test the waters, be a (wo)man and just go on stage and announce ur deporting everyone)
47bn in savings overall.
1. Welfare: Benefits restricted to UK citizens, tighter rules on sickness and disability support (especially for mild mental health conditions), changes to housing benefit and job-seeking rules, limits on Motability VAT relief, and keeping the two-child benefit cap
2. Civil Service: Cut around 132,000 jobs - about a quarter of the workforce - to return staffing to 2016 levels
3. Social housing: Only UK nationals would be eligible, cutting demand and spending on the Affordable Homes Programme
4. Asylum and borders: End hotel use by deporting everyone who arrives illegally under new Borders plan announced on Sunday. Want to deport 750,000 migrants.
5. Green schemes: Scrap parts of Great British Energy, heat pump and EV grants, and Labour’s Warm Homes Scheme
6. Overseas aid: Cut foreign aid from 0.5% to 0.1% of national income

It's all too little too late- the Tories caused this problem, let us not forget, who the fuck thinks they are gonna fix it? And why no benefits for non-citizens (agree with) but UK nationals can get social housing? Why not only citizens for both?
Anyway, part of me hopes that with the Tories 'catching up' to Reforms policies, Reform will go even harder on their immigration policies. Meanwhile that fluffer Polanski is being praised as 'a reasonable guy with reasonable policies' everywhere I look on the flailing left wing, like he isn't a walking statistic. Packs of drink cover stickers are on ebay ladies, stay safe.
 
My kang never misses.
fsbdxsdrgv - Copy.PNG

Made In Wales dijo:
Sinn Féin 'will not be intimidated' after pipe bomb left outside office:
Presiona para expandir...
I open the link and the first thing I see is some fucking downie woman. Female beavo. The only thing I wanted to know was 'a viable explosive device'. Eh oh. Someone's trying to boog. Guess I have to change all the bets now since the fucking paddies have apparently decided to start pipebombing alongside firebombing. You can say what you want about not being intimidated, you'd be saying something else if they decided to actually light it. There is one thing you can say about the Irish and that's that they're very good at intimidating politicians.
 
femboy fart huffer dijo:
My kang never misses.
Ver archivo adjunto 8004201

I open the link and the first thing I see is some fucking downie woman. Female beavo. The only thing I wanted to know was 'a viable explosive device'. Eh oh. Someone's trying to boog. Guess I have to change all the bets now since the fucking paddies have apparently decided to start pipebombing alongside firebombing. You can say what you want about not being intimidated, you'd be saying something else if they decided to actually light it. There is one thing you can say about the Irish and that's that they're very good at intimidating politicians.
Presiona para expandir...

Are the IRA are back, with Kneecap providing the music this time?

Way things are going, more than a few MP's offices will likely go up in flames.
 
Heinrich Maneuver dijo:
It's all too little too late- the Tories caused this problem, let us not forget, who the fuck thinks they are gonna fix it? And why no benefits for non-citizens (agree with) but UK nationals can get social housing? Why not only citizens for both?
Anyway, part of me hopes that with the Tories 'catching up' to Reforms policies, Reform will go even harder on their immigration policies. Meanwhile that fluffer Polanski is being praised as 'a reasonable guy with reasonable policies' everywhere I look on the flailing left wing, like he isn't a walking statistic. Packs of drink cover stickers are on ebay ladies, stay safe.
Presiona para expandir...
There is a bit of optimism to be had here though I think. I still believe that no matter how well Reform are polling, come the GE all parties left of Reform will work together to form a coalition that can't agree on anything, but ensures Reform can't form a government. If the Conservatives are significantly hardening their policies like this to align more with Reform, it's helpful to have in the back pocket. Nobody wants them back in power, they fucked up enough already, but I could just about tolerate them as a junior party in a coalition so long as they agree their job is to STFU and vote according to the Reform whip.
 
Made In Wales dijo:
Are the IRA are back, with Kneecap providing the music this time?
Presiona para expandir...
They never really left. After the provos disbanded on good friday it splintered into two groups that never stopped, those are the ones that did the london bombings in the 00s. They're still there it's just the only thing they do is sell ket now. Or well, they did until recently I guess.
 
Made In Wales dijo:
Sinn Féin 'will not be intimidated' after pipe bomb left outside office:



People are getting angry.
Presiona para expandir...
> tfw people start issuing bomb threats to the IRA.

>IMPLYING dijo:
Impossible without one of those parties getting more seats than Reform in the GE, which in itself is also probably impossible given polling.
Presiona para expandir...
Pretty much. Not only are Reform so far ahead that if they can keep this up until the time of a General Election no groups will have the seats to oppose them whatever coalition they form, but also the non-Reform parties don't have the political closeness to do it anyway. Who could the Tories form an alliance against Reform with? Reform are the closest party to them politically. Labour and the Lib Dems? I guess maybe. But they wont have the numbers. The only reason I demur from your "Impossible" at all is because there's a long time still before now and the GE (unless Starmer explodes) and a lot can happen between then and now. But yeah, pretty much.

It's not like France where Far Left party X come to an understanding with Not As Far Left party Y to oppose RN (Le Penn). And we don't have their funky two-round election process to enable dynamic re-aligning of parties mid-election when things aren't going the right way by fiddling candidates.

Heinrich Maneuver dijo:
It's all too little too late- the Tories caused this problem, let us not forget, who the fuck thinks they are gonna fix it?
Presiona para expandir...
There is some mitigation there in that Labour introduced a bunch of laws that made it much harder to carry out their announced policy and Blair created the Supreme Court that also is a roadblock to action. Reform will need to have the majority to roll back these laws that the Tories (I think) didn't manage to. Badenoch has announced it's now Tory policy to leave the ECHR.

Not removing blame from Tories, but saying they caused it is leaving out a lot of Labour's share of the blame.
:story:
 
Última edición:
Made In Wales dijo:
more than a few MP's offices will likely go up in flames.
Presiona para expandir...
Sadly i agree. I did wonder if the 'hushhush' around the Gateshead MP's office was to prevent any sort of copycat attacks. I do think there's a real fear of growing violence in the air, left- and right-wing, and lunatics. Starmer has all but admitted that the police are completely unprepared to deal with any sort of large scale protesting, and a lot of the dialogue around the unfortunate deaths at the synagogue make the coppers sound even more incompetent; he is arresting pensioners protesting seeing kids starve and autists on twitter to seem like he's cracking down on 'extremism', not realising that is only inflaming both sides. I'll repeat myself, this winter has potential to be really nasty with how things are heating up.
What could the Sinn Fein pipebomb motivation be? They did reverse on their immigration views recently iirc, or is this just another day in Ireland?
Nopenopenope dijo:
There is a bit of optimism to be had here though I think.
Presiona para expandir...
I could see a Tory-Reform coalition or unspoken support agreement forming; not sure on a leftwing coalition tho as others have mentioned, the tranny rights issue and Israel (LFI and others) will tear apart any left wing group even with the threat of Reform, Diversity Politics is ingrained into modern day/young peoples leftism who will be very loud about siding with Tranny Killer Tories. Your Party is dead in the water. Green has skeletons in the attic that will come back to haunt them. Lib Dem is also there.
 
Part of me kind of wants an 'every party coalition' just to see the complete shitstorm that would occur. Even better if it was a Labour/Conservative/Greens/Lib Dem one because that'd be the ultimate palette cleanser for it'd last less than a week.

However it's looking increasingly likely that even voting pacts are going to fall apart. They make sense when Labour is 90% likely to win if Lib Dems are to stand down and vice versa, but what happens when both Labour and Lib Dems are polling similarly? Both can't dictate that the other should stand down so both will run, it'll split the vote and a vote for Lib Dems becomes a vote for Reform.
 
Destacado
Debes iniciar sesión o registrarte para responder aquí.
Atrás
Top Abajo