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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

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.

 

[RGK5H]

You're not trying to discuss or hold an opinion, you're just repeating a mantra and cannot handle that people disagree with you or hold different opinions to your own. So like I said, if you're going to throw a strop if you see dissenting opinions and can't handle them without resorting to "I hope you get murdered", go hang out on /pol/.

I hear /pol/ is more left leaning these days. Maybe you should go there

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I hear /pol/ is more left leaning these days. Maybe you should go there

It's full to the brim of interracial porn. Seems like the sort of thing she'd be like.

Do you think she's self aware enough to see a black man kidnapped a young white girl in the article just posted? And that white girl would still be alive and not raped right now if she could give up her turkish super markets?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

You're not trying to discuss or hold an opinion, you're just repeating a mantra and cannot handle that people disagree with you or hold different opinions to your own. So like I said, if you're going to throw a strop if you see dissenting opinions and can't handle them without resorting to "I hope you get murdered", go hang out on /pol/.

"I think the country should allow in the brown hordes because I like Turkish food! " Is your position, and we have seen your position put to the test in real life. You are some rootless, city dwelling insect person, childless and with no stake in the society that you are happy to pour social acid all over. All that you think, and say should be spat out like the fetid bile it is. Not thought of as equal to other ideas. The reason I pray to Allah that he will send one of his retards to turn you into kebab meat, is because you are a societal cancer. It is not because I cannot handle your disagreement, or have a frank discussion with you; it is because you are not worth having a frank discussion with, your starting point is to accept in foreigners because you like their food. It's societal suicide you're pushing. You should die. I mean this with all sincerity, you dying would be a form of social healthcare. Like lancing a boil.

It's not a freedom of speech issue, or a debate bro issue. It's the fact that you, and everyone that thinks as you do, is a direct cause of all the problems we now face and a boulder in the way of fixing them. When Orwell described a boot stepping on the gormless mass of humanity distilled down into a face, you'd be the one tonguing the boot so long as you got a Samosa out of it.

Do you think she's self aware enough to see a black man kidnapped a young white girl in the article she posted?

Of course not. This country has always had this undercurrent of spoilt, vacant people with a love of the foreign. They crow about how they want to be citizens of the world, they fetishise and love anything that isn't us; while at the same time clucking their tongues at the idea of fixing any problem we face. No disruption to their lives is all they crave and want. An entire caste of nagging, vapid cunts.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I am willing to have an open and honest debate on immigration in this country. But if you argue for even a single breeding pair of any non-white here, you are arguing for slavery, rape gangs and murders. Even if there are just 2 of them, their kids do not consider incest to be a problem. They are not intelligent enough to use birth control. The population will grow and spiral out of control creating the same problems we have now.

So if you want to debate bro me on immigration. You have to defend your position on our children being raped and murdered because anything less is dishonest. And I don't think "I want a kebab" is a fair argument for rape gangs being allowed to exist.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I'm fucking breaking out the model trains to try eat if you want to fucking argue like my parents.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'm fucking breaking out the model trains to try eat if you want to fucking argue like my parents.

I'm gonna get drunk and beat you.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

I'm gonna get drunk and beat you.

Threatens to consume alcohol and fight someone
Is in the Army

checks out tbh.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Threatens to consume alcohol and fight someone
Is in the Army

checks out tbh.

You can't see it, but I've just slapped my stomach and said "This bad boy can fit so many jeagerbombs in it." and it can, and it will!

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Rumours are when Salsa gets really drunk he goes midget bashing. If he finds a paki midget and gives it a slap, he buys himself a lucky dip on the way home to make the most of his luck.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Rumours are when Salsa gets really drunk he goes midget bashing. If he finds a paki midget and gives it a slap, he buys himself a lucky dip on the way home to make the most of his luck.

Could be worse to be honest.

He could go after redheads called Martha...

 

[BongoMongo]

Rumours are when Salsa gets really drunk he goes midget bashing. If he finds a paki midget and gives it a slap, he buys himself a lucky dip on the way home to make the most of his luck.

Do you remember Rusty The Bouncing Weather Midget on Live TV? Wasn't he a ginger and all? Quelle Horreur.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Could be worse to be honest.

He could go after redheads called Martha...

I always thought redheads were rather tasty. But in this weather they look like a salami the moment they leave the house.

 

[teriyakiburns]

One in six young people will not be in work or training in five years without action, report warns (live)

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One in six young people will not be in education, employment or training within five years unless "urgent" action is taken, a major review has warned.

The education, health and welfare systems are "no longer fit for purpose" in preparing young people for adult life, said its author former minister Alan Milburn.

"We are at risk of a lost generation," he warned, with the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work, education or training set to rise to 1.25 million by 2031.

The "first rung of the career ladder has thinned" and that for "too many young people it is now simply out of reach", Milburn is set to say in a speech later.

"That places them in a hopeless catch-22 where employers ask for work experience but the opportunities for young people to gain it have narrowed or gone," he will say.

There are growing concerns over the number of young people not working. Latest figures show the unemployment rate for 16 to 24-year-olds is 16.2%, the highest since 2014, and more than three times the broader unemployment rate of 5%.

Milburn was tasked with investigating why so many young people are not in employment, education or training - known by the acronym Neets.

According to the latest official UK figures, there were 957,000 young people classed as Neet from October to December 2025, equivalent to one in eight people in that age category.

More than half of those were deemed to be not looking for work.

Milburn warned that number could rise to 1.25 million, or one in six young people, in the next five years unless action was taken.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said he commissioned the report to save a generation of young people from unemployment, welcoming its findings.

"We are already taking action," he said, highlighting the government's plans to pay companies to hire young people and its moves to create more apprenticeships.

McFadden also said the government is focusing on "early intervention" measures such as special educational needs support and the removal of the two-child cap on benefits. "But we know there is more to do," he added.

The findings from the former Labour health secretary's review have been heavily trailed. He told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that the government spends 25 times as much on benefits for young people than it does on supporting them into work.

However, in his interim report, he challenged the narrative that young people do not want to work, saying that 84% of Neets surveyed said they want a job or training.

He argues young people are not to blame for the youth unemployment crisis.

"This is not a failure of young people. It is a failure of a system stuck in the past. Whether it is education or health or welfare, that system fails to enable their participation in the labour market," he is expected to say in a speech later.

"Instead, all too often it ends up putting young people on a path to a life not in jobs but on benefits. This should be the priority for the government. It should be the priority for all of us."



Zaynah, 24, has suffered from physical ill health and has not had a job since leaving college. Over the past year, she has applied for more than 200 jobs but said she never heard back from any of the employers.

"Getting a job is very hard because with my issues, I haven't got that much experience, I've never worked before," she added.

"So I feel like it's restricting me and I'm not getting jobs.'' She said she was planning to start doing some volunteering so she can improve her CV.

Luke, who studied product design at the prestigious Central St Martin's University, cannot find a job despite trying hard.

The 23-year-old has applied for more than 400 positions and has only ever had one interview as a cleaner which he did not get.

''It's humiliating," he said. "You think 'okay I've got all the knowledge, I've got all the skills, all I'm waiting for is a job to put it in practice'.

"It makes you depressed especially the amount of rejections." He said he had no choice but to claim benefits.



Meanwhile Rocky had been out of work for a year before he joined Nando's as a waiter. Three years on he is now an assistant manager.

Written off at school, he now cannot believe how things have turned out for him.

"I'm 23 years old and I'm a manager at Nando's," he says. "I feel happy with myself. I can look back and tell my doubters that I made it.''

He said he would not have progressed without mentoring by a manager at Nando's and ongoing support from the youth charity Spear.

The report found in 2024/25, for every £1 spent on employment support for young people, around £25 was spent on benefits.

It also said the number of low-and medium-skilled jobs in the UK had fallen by 1.6 million in the past 20 years, while the number of higher-skilled positions has risen by 6.3 million.

High street retailers and hospitality businesses such as restaurants, cafes and pubs often offer the first experience of work for many young people.

But in the hospitality sector vacancies have halved in the past four years.

The boss of Next, Lord Simon Wolfson, told the BBC this week that just two years ago, the retail giant typically received 10 applications for every shop vacancy, but that number had since risen to 19.

'Tragic waste of potential'​

Rain Newton-Smith, the chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry, said the report exposed "a tragic waste of potential and sets out the key problems that must be fixed".

"Reducing the high cost of creating jobs in the UK would open up more opportunities," she claimed.

Some employers have argued it has become more difficult to hire young people due to higher minimum wages and increased taxes, such as employer National Insurance contributions.

The government has defended its decision to raise taxes on business and increasing the national minimum wage.

Last year, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer U-turned reforms to welfare spending that aimed to save £5bn a year by 2030 after facing a rebellion by his own Labour MPs.

The review does not include potential solutions to the crisis, but these will come at a later date in a final report.

The Conservative Party said Labour is too focused on its own internal leadership speculation to deal with the "generational crisis" Milburn warned of.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately said: "Every policy choice Labour has made, from their jobs tax, capping apprenticeship funding, or trapping young people on welfare, has made it harder for a young person to take their first step into work.

"Their only answer has been a flurry of piecemeal work programmes – an approach this report rubbishes."

tl;dr young people are being excluded from the job market because there's far more people applying than positions available. This is illustrated by a sob story about paki on sick benefits and an uplifting story about paki working in nandos. The cause of mass youth unemployment is never addressed in even the most abstract way.

 

[diroama]

I'd like to deport Zaynah and Rocky.

And Luke needs to grow the fuck up and realise he isn't going to be a "product designer".

 

[only shallow]

McFadden also said the government is focusing on "early intervention" measures such as special educational needs support

This is part of the issue. Some kids need help yes but far too many are labelled as having extra needs when they’re just standard lazy and/or naughty kids. Treating them as having a ‘need’ establishes in them that it’s the world that needs to change and not them. Certainly life is hard but all the more reason to build your resilience and deal with life as it is and not how you want it to be

 

[BongoMongo]

I'd like to deport Zaynah and Rocky.

And Luke needs to grow the fuck up and realise he isn't going to be a "product designer".

But some of the migrants are nice! And the food is good! That makes it worth it, right????

Never mind that low skill jobs which should be entry to working life for young people are now going to nbugu and his pals. Stop being racist.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

But some of the migrants are nice! And the food is good! That makes it worth it, right????

Never mind that low skill jobs which should be entry to working life for young people are now going to nbugu and his pals. Stop being racist.

They come and take the low skill jobs. Are too dumb to use protection, so end up shitting out kids who end up on benefits because low jobs and minor disabilities are easy to fake. So they create this problem. And Labour will say "we need to get rid of the welfare state. People are not working and sitting on benefits". And then they'll take a hatchet to disabled benefits while running media witch hunts for white fraudsters. Until disabled benefits are fucked (they're already hard to live on with the cost of living). But abdul in the hotel will get his entire life paid for and still work uber eats on an unlicensed scooter.

Another issue with the job market is it's all on websites now. So literally any job in the UK will have hundreds of foreigners applying for it. A lot of the times it's the same person multiple times. Lets say it's a basic IT thing, you need to hire a HTML designer or whatever the fuck they use these days. An indian company with 10 employees will do the ghost kitchen thing where they run multiple businesses out of the same building. So they will submit 50 different applications using different company names. But it's all the same 10 people in the same office. And often the office will be some empty office being rented by someone in the UK related to them. He gets his cut for acting as the front while all the work is done poorly by ghost kitchen companies in India.

The later obviously doesn't apply to manual labour stuff. But I bet they're trying the same thing where all the foreigners apply and then move in with their "family" if they get hired.

 

[EddyRooney]

Meanwhile Rocky had been out of work for a year before he joined Nando's as a waiter. Three years on he is now an assistant manager.

Written off at school, he now cannot believe how things have turned out for him.

"I'm 23 years old and I'm a manager at Nando's," he says. "I feel happy with myself. I can look back and tell my doubters that I made it.''

0:26

and that's when the big bucks start rolling in !

Rocky doesn't work at Nando's, he works at McDowell's.

 

[SaltyFanta]

And yeah, we knew the National Front "Keep Britain White" cunts back then. Decent people scorned them.

It's a shame it was not kept White, there'd be less rapes, less murder, drugs, and less terrorism. It's almost like maybe they were on to something.

But I think keeping Britain White is not a good long term goal. The long, long, long term goal should be to have almost entirely British homeland, but also a growing British diaspora that acts in our interests. To be living bridges, creating political pressure to align nations behind us. Until you see a British mayor of Karachi, Brits owning the majority of New Delhi properties, foreign police forces decrying anti-British racism. With anyone opposing that called a racist and scorned by "decent people".

We should not only oppose the erasure of our people, but promote strength and power, lest we become an irrelevant global minority that can simply be crushed or stepped over.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

It's a shame it was not kept White, there'd be less rapes, less murder, drugs, and less terrorism. It's almost like maybe they were on to something.

But I think keeping Britain White is not a good long term goal. The long, long, long term goal should be to have almost entirely British homeland, but also a growing British diaspora that acts in our interests. To be living bridges, creating political pressure to align nations behind us. Until you see a British mayor of Karachi, Brits owning the majority of New Delhi properties, foreign police forces decrying anti-British racism. With anyone opposing that called a racist and scorned by "decent people".

We should not only oppose the erasure of our people, but promote strength and power, lest we become an irrelevant global minority that can simply be crushed or stepped over.

This is what China and India do. They actively teach their citizens to move to other countries and promote their national interests. They fund and encourage it. Indian is especially bad about it where their politicians will give marching orders on social media. Will tell people where to apply pressure, who to write to and complain about road blocks in the way of Indian interests.

People are really really naive to how nasty this all in. It's organized, intentional and funded. No one is coming here for a good life, they're coming here to subvert the country for their own national interests.