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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.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Right the funniest part of all this online security shit is that it's the same sort of shit that happens with security cameras and those police cutouts you see in shops from time to time, it's to give the illusion that the government can track every single thing you do. I know they can't, you know they can't, a good portion of the UK knows they can't, but if it stops a retard from committing a crime it's going to push crime down.

Like honestly, a guy could get stabbed to death in broad daylight with about 40 cameras looking directly at the incident but the police won't be able to do shit because 1) A good half of all cameras straight up do not work, they're either disabled, fake or broken. 2) Even if it DOES work, there's a strong chance that it's the wrong type of camera or the sort installed 20 years ago which will show a pixelated mess which could very easily be disputed. 3) Good luck getting private businesses to cooperate with the police, it's not even a case of they're actively roadblocking a police investigation (although some absolutely will) but by the time someone phones someone who has the password for the CCTV system, chances are it'll have been overwritten as you're not going to get businesses having a 144TB server rack for 4K footage they're never ever going to look at.

Like put it this way, you're an assistant manager at NEXT, you've been there for like 5 years and the CCTV system was installed 20 years ago. Who the fuck even is responsible for operating it? The guy who installed it will have left 15 years ago. His replacement will have gone a few years afterwards. The password has probably been lost to time. You file a ticket with the security cam company (which might have gone out of business) to see if they have any records in their archives. A guy pops around a week later after driving 120 miles to your business to try and enter the bypass master password to find the USB ports are fucked and you can't even type the password if you tried. The average 'security camera server' is operated by complete fucking retards.

But back to my original point, if this is a complete retard who is actively trying to chat to 13 year olds to get them to self harm etc. then they might be persuaded to not do it. This is pretty much the only thing this will ever ever solve: low IQ retards from the UK. If you're based in Thailand you don't give a fuck, what are the UK going to do? Extradite you? If you're another child encouraging the child to self harm then the police can't do shit other than give you a telling off.

And of course the ultimate issue: What happens when Treyton wants to view porn but can't because he has a child account? He begs his mum to sort some verification out and boom, he's now a single mum on the internet who can view porn and bad videos and show them to kids at school, bypassing this entire thing in one fucking go.

The scheme is devised by retards FOR retards because they can't babysit retards.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Camera found in Whitehall ceiling panel (X)

UK spying fears after secret camera found in Whitehall ceiling panel​

Security officials discovered the hidden device in a sensitive UK Government building

A secret camera has been discovered in a sensitive Whitehall building, sparking fears of espionage, The i Paper has learned.
Security officials working at Marsham Street in Victoria, central London – a vast suite of offices that houses the Home Office and the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) – found a hidden camera in a ceiling panel, ministers have been informed.
The discovery sparked alarm because officials in the building had been involved in the controversial planning application for China’s proposed new mega-embassy in London.

A source familiar with the incident, which occurred in the last two months, said the Security Services had been informed.
How the camera came to be placed in such a sensitive location, and how long it was there, remain unknown. Subsequent enquiries have sought to establish who placed the device.
The electronic device had been discovered in a communal area of a shared building used by multiple civil servants, rather than in or near ministerial offices.
One of the most high-profile decisions taken in the Marsham Street building in recent months was the approval of China’s plans for a huge new embassy in central London – despite opponents warning that the site could be used as a base for spying and posed security risks.
The revelation will renew concerns about the security of UK Government buildings.
Hackers linked to China and Russia have been connected with a series of cyber operations against UK Government systems in recent years, aimed at gathering political intelligence and accessing sensitive information. The threat posed by cyber attacks can be severe.
The presence of a covert device in a Whitehall building, in proximity to key officials and ministers responsible for sensitive policy matters, will heighten fears over espionage tactics.
There is no suggestion that Russia- or China-linked actors are responsible for the device.
The discovery left staff shocked, fearing that they were being watched or listened to – and speculating about how and why the camera had been placed there.
The context was very different, but several civil servants said the discovery reminded them of the 2021 scandal when CCTV footage was leaked of former health secretary Matt Hancock kissing his mistress Gina Coladangelo in his office. The subsequent public outrage focused on Hancock’s hypocrisy, but in Whitehall there was also alarm that sensitive department meetings and conversations might be being monitored.
Tory shadow minister Alex Burghart said: “This is an extremely serious incident that demands an urgent investigation.
“The discovery of a hidden camera inside a building that occupies the Home Office and other departments raises serious questions about the security of government departments and the actions of those seeking to undermine them.”
Burghart, the Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster, added: “We urgently need to know who was responsible, how long this device was in place, and whether any sensitive or classified information has been compromised.”
An MHCLG spokesperson said: “We do not comment on security matters.”
The Home Office and MHCLG were involved in the controversial planning decision to approve the new Chinese embassy earlier this year. The i Paper revealed in January 2025 that the Royal Mint Court site sits close to fibre-optic cables carrying vast quantities of highly sensitive data from the City of London. The proximity sparked concern among Britain’s intelligence services that the cables could be vulnerable to attack, and used by Beijing to infiltrate the UK’s financial system.
In its final decision letter in January 2026, however, MHCLG said there was no suggestion the use of the site as an embassy would interfere with the cables. It added that no bodies with responsibility for national security – including the Home Office and the Foreign Office – had raised concerns or objected on the basis of the cables’ proximity.
The MI5 director general Sir Ken McCallum and GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler said in a joint letter at the time that a “proportionate” package of national security mitigations had now been developed for the site.
Last autumn, Sir Ken used his annual speech to warn that state threats from China, Russia and Iran were escalating, with MI5 seeing a 35 per cent increase in the number of individuals it is investigating over the past year. Chinese state actors in particular, he said, present a daily national security threat to the UK, and he revealed that MI5 had recently intervened operationally to disrupt Chinese activity of national security concern.
Only last week, the Five Eyes alliance – made up of agencies from the UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand – warned that Chinese spies are posing as recruitment agents to trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets. This included using legitimate websites such as LinkedIn to advertise fake analyst jobs.
The i Paper has previously exposed how a hidden Chinese tracking device was found in a UK government car after intelligence officials stripped back vehicles in response to growing concerns over spyware.
This newspaper also revealed how the Ministry of Defence banned electric vehicles with Chinese components from sensitive sites and military training bases, after senior officials raised concerns that the vehicles could be tracked and that sensors in the cars could be used to gather intelligence and send it back to Beijing.
Other high-profile security breaches include the alleged hacking of Liz Truss’s phone by agents suspected of working for the Kremlin when she was foreign secretary. Cyber-spies are believed to have gained access to top-secret exchanges with key international partners, as well as private conversations with her leading political ally, Kwasi Kwarteng.
The phone was so heavily compromised, it was placed in a locked safe at a secure government location, according to reports.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

it's to give the illusion that the government can track every single thing you do.

Our school had cameras, back when the threat was kids escaping not nonces breaking in, and we would always fuck around and obviously be pushing the boundaries in front of it to see how much we could get away with and we always got away with it, no one ever said anything to us at all ever. Then one day someone tried climbing up to it to turn it around so we could jump the fence and do idk something. And it just fell off. It was literally just a plastic shell with nothing inside. I know for a fact that is far from just a funny childhood story. That is a massive amount of cctv cameras.

Camera found in Whitehall ceiling panel (X)

Spy or jeet watching women shit? Hard to tell in this timeline.

 

[Snekposter]

I don't see the UK surviving, when I see Brits fighting they are fighting as English, Scottish, Welsh,Irish.

When a two-party system starts breaking down into four, that's a clear sign of irreconcilable political differences.

Thankfully such a hypothetical English civil war would be far less bloody, simply because the most dangerous weapons most people could acquire on short notice would be sharpened kitchen knives, and thanks to deindustrialization there's little ability to scale up firearms production to meet demand. Three guys in a shed can only make so many, no matter the quality.

 

[Mister Fister]

When a two-party system starts breaking down into four, that's a clear sign of irreconcilable political differences.
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Thankfully such a hypothetical English civil war would be far less bloody, simply because the most dangerous weapons most people could acquire on short notice would be sharpened kitchen knives, and thanks to deindustrialization there's little ability to scale up firearms production to meet demand. Three guys in a shed can only make so many, no matter the quality.

You’re assuming that there wouldn’t be firearms brought in.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Spy or jeet watching women shit? Hard to tell in this timeline.

I think its spying, but why do they bother? They're just gonna get to watch meetings on making the state-funded rape-machine more diverse.

The Polish Foreign Ministry, and Dominik Tarczyński MEP, have confirmed that Henry Nowak was a dual citizen (X) and held citizenship in Poland. This does not change the fact that he was treated how he was because he was white. I hope the Poles summon the ambassador Melinda Simmons over the murder and the removal of tributes at the Embassy.

Thankfully such a hypothetical English civil war would be far less bloody, simply because the most dangerous weapons most people could acquire on short notice would be sharpened kitchen knives, and thanks to deindustrialization there's little ability to scale up firearms production to meet demand. Three guys in a shed can only make so many, no matter the quality.

Everyone and their mums is packin' 'round 'ere.

 

[Snekposter]

You’re assuming that there wouldn’t be firearms brought in.

True. Ironically less than you'd expect from the USA given the distance, but I can see the French supplying all sides simply to maximize the body count. Not even the two world wars was enough to get them to forgive the UK for what they did to Napoleon.

Everyone and their mums is packin' 'round 'ere.

Only in a few places, unfortunately.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I hope the Poles summon the ambassador Melinda Simmons over the murder and the removal of tributes at the Embassy.

Poland still has a 'we will literally shoot to kill' policy on illegal immigration right?

Only in a few places, unfortunately.

IMAGINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fucking americans I swear. Next he'll be asking if Postman Pat works for Royal Mail or Evri.

Also the bigger issue in the uk wouldn't be firearms it'd be ammunition anyway. We have pretty low capacity to manufacture. We can set up factories to produce weapons but you can't just summon the raw materials to produce ammo from nowhere.

 

[Snekposter]

We can set up factories to produce weapons but you can't just summon the raw materials to produce ammo from nowhere.

Hey, if you run out of brass you can just use steel instead if you're really desperate.

You uh... do have steel foundries still, right?

Right?

 

[Mister Fister]

True. Ironically less than you'd expect from the USA given the distance, but I can see the French supplying all sides simply to maximize the body count. Not even the two world wars was enough to get them to forgive the UK for what they did to Napoleon

There’s a good correlation between owning a semi auto rifle and hating the British government.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Hey, if you run out of brass you can just use steel instead if you're really desperate.

You uh... do have steel foundries still, right?

Right?

The casing and bullets aren't the issue. We have factories that can be turned on to produce that sort of stuff. It's the powder and primers that we can't just summon from nowhere.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

There’s a good correlation between owning a semi auto rifle anything and hating the British government.

Fixed it for you.

 

[Snekposter]

The casing and bullets aren't the issue. We have factories that can be turned on to produce that sort of stuff. It's the powder and primers that we can't just summon from nowhere.

Man, if only a certain orange someone had been yelling at Europe since 2016 to unfuck their arms industries or something like that...

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Poland still has a 'we will literally shoot to kill' policy on illegal immigration right?

Yes, the soldier who was recently in court for shooting border hoppers turned up in a nationalist shirt as well iirc.

Only in a few places, unfortunately.

Dark days when a Hot Fuzz reference goes unnoticed. Crikey I thought this was the Bri'ish thread

 

[Snekposter]

Dark days when a Hot Fuzz reference goes unnoticed. Crikey I thought this was the Bri'ish thread

Oh no, I was aware, but your average city dweller, even one of the larcenous disposition, considers a semi-auto shotgun to be bleedin' anti-aircraft artillery.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Oh no, I was aware, but your average city dweller, even one of the larcenous disposition, considers a semi-auto shotgun to be bleedin' anti-aircraft artillery.

You load it with bubbas special shells and it sure as fuck is. Yeeeeeeeehaw!

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Hey, if you run out of brass you can just use steel instead if you're really desperate.

You uh... do have steel foundries still, right?

Right?

Sadly, Newport is just newp now, and Scunthorpe is solely cunt.

Sheffield? Is full of whiny students and forruns. The foundries are now housing no-one can afford, and wasteland also no-one can afford.

We can probably fashion you something out of American sweets and vapes though. Just ask a Turkish barber.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

vapes

You don't need to fashion anything from a vape. They're already incendiaries and explosives just as they are.

 

[Decapitated Nigger Baby]

You know what this means, right? No more red meat or milk in the Worst Country On The Planet(tm)

 

[femboy fart huffer]

You know what this means, right? No more red meat or milk in the Worst Country On The Planet(tm)

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How old is blair and is that more or less than the average lifespan of a human -10 years? I know massive on him being human though.