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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.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

I mean look at what's happening in New York, the muzzie commie mayor, them winning the local elections with all commie retards. Look at Pro-Palestine, and others, they're all communist retards.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

>Rejoin with UK-only carve outs to ensure all unwanted migrants go to the UK

There's a joke going around that 'the UK has a plan to send all asylum seekers to Rwanda, France just sends them to the UK'. I think the current EU plan is to try give all the illegals to the Taliban, and if they use them for forced labour, we simply look away.

It’s ripe for bribery, coercion and slavery. Absolute recipe for it. The government couldn’t have thought of a worse plan if they’d tried. Idiots.

3rd worlders will sponsor and bring in their 'maids' and 'staff' to use and abuse and it will be a slavery epidemic that, somehow, native Brits will have to atone for. It's like Ghana demanding slavery reparations from us, and then happily handing slaves over to the Middle East.

Worcester

it's always those pear eating inbred cunts isn't it? I hope the next flood wipes them out. MP Tom Collins is an 'anti-slavery' advocate, but turns a blind eye to the genuine slavery going on in the Worcestershire 'care' system. I get MATI thinking about it.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

I think It's also important to say that if you have a partner/wife/husband/retard athen try to educatre them, I know there are a lot of veteran members here who have admitted their spouses are left-wing/or speak in anger when talking about politics. If you have kids, I get it, but if not, then man the fuck up and stop being a giant retarded pussy, because you are also the problem.

"I'm right-wing, believe in this, but my girlfriend is a member of the green party". I hope her pussy is green and gives you some deformed fungus cock. I guess it';s the WIMBY issue, "I agree with this, but not in my garden".

It's the end of the heatwave (hopefully) and people in the shops still fighting and charging for shit, no one has manners, even white pure people-because they have to adapt to their wildlife (I don't blame them).

I think this may fall under MATI, but It's still true, a lot of cunts here moan and express themelsves yet have partners, friends, social groups who all vote against their beleifs.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Mahmood said "But this system only survives if the public trusts that it is fair,  controlled, and not open to abuse."

Well done-you played yourself. No one trusts your government.

How about instead of the UK following Canada's hopeless system (and Canada is 1000's of miles away), Mahmood looks closer to home and follows the Polish system of dealing with immigration, both illegal and legal?

 

[Eekum Bokum]

I think It's also important to say that if you have a partner/wife/husband/retard athen try to educatre them, I know there are a lot of veteran members here who have admitted their spouses are left-wing/or speak in anger when talking about politics. If you have kids, I get it, but if not, then man the fuck up and stop being a giant retarded pussy, because you are also the problem.

"I'm right-wing, believe in this, but my girlfriend is a member of the green party". I hope her pussy is green and gives you some deformed fungus cock. I guess it';s the WIMBY issue, "I agree with this, but not in my garden".

It's the end of the heatwave (hopefully) and people in the shops still fighting and charging for shit, no one has manners, even white pure people-because they have to adapt to their wildlife (I don't blame them).

I think this may fall under MATI, but It's still true, a lot of cunts here moan and express themelsves yet have partners, friends, social groups who all vote against their beleifs.

Dude fuck off I'm not going to ruin my marriage because me and the wife have a disagreement on politics.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

What part of we don’t want you to keep importing infinity niggers and shitskins do these clowns not understand?

(Preaching to the choir I know, just had to say it)

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

So, universities might bring in more people, but they destroy cities’ housing, culture, history and economy for the locals

Swansea is a classic example.
Whole streets with only 2 houses occupied outside term time and alarms going off with no students home to switch them off.
Dead town.

 

[teriyakiburns]

How about instead of the UK following Canada's hopeless system (and Canada is 1000's of miles away), Mahmood looks closer to home and follows the Polish system of dealing with immigration, both illegal and legal?

I do wonder how many of these policies will survive the Burnham coronation. The successor cabinet will want to establish a clear distinction from Starmer's cabinet, so I expect to see sacrifices and a lot of broken promises in the next few months.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

Dude fuck off I'm not going to ruin my marriage because me and the wife have a disagreement on politics.

She already despises you. Have some fun.

 

[Surprised Pikachu]

Can I share with you all a rather optimistic story from this sun-blighted corner of our once green and peaceful land? I had to get emergency dental treatment today - due in large part to my failing to (and giving up trying to) get an NHS Dentist. I live outside a fairly large city and the area I was sent to is like another planet, full of mosques, women in head scarves and vape shops. I had resigned myself to being seen by a ‘foreigner’ as every other place I attend seems to be Muslim owned or run, my Doctors surgery, the Chemist, even Specsavers!

Imagine my surprise therefore at an all white, all FEMALE waiting room, with a couple of nice old ladies and a young Mum. Checked in with a white British receptionist and was seen by a lovely female Dentist from Essex and an older Nurse who were cracking jokes and making me laugh despite the pain. Was one of the best dental experiences I’ve had.

I think when we are feeling vulnerable and needing help it’s important to be able to communicate effectively and feel at ease with people. My Pharmacist probably knows his stuff but it doesn’t help when he phones up and I can’t understand him. Nor do you feel comfortable sitting in a waiting room for an exam with people speaking a foreign language all around you - only for one of them to look at you, call your name and realise they are about to see you without your underwear on. What were they saying before they switched to English?

I’m glad today worked out as it did. I’m sure a foreign dentist would have been just as efficient but probably wouldn’t have made me feel as comfortable. I loved my Essex lady and loved feeling at home in my own bloody country. Does that make me a racist? Probably. Do I care? Not anymore.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Nor do you feel comfortable sitting in a waiting room for an exam with people speaking a foreign language all around you - only for one of them to look at you, call your name and realise they are about to see you without your underwear on. What were they saying before they switched to English?

Hi
You do realise these modern watches have auto translate?

 

[Gregis]

I’m sure a foreign dentist would have been just as efficient

If you’re getting a cortisol spike from having to look at someone’s ugly, brown skin, it’s going to negatively impact the health intervention they supply, implying a reduced efficiency.

 

[PandaChai]

Floridian: Oh, so [PandaChai] is complaining about normal weather again?
Perhaps it has something to do with me being 20+ degrees of latitude higher north than you, you gator-raping swamp creature?! I saw both elderly & toddler family this week and both were deeply unwell from the heat. I'm sick of Americans living in their plywood houses with AC set low enough to leave an eskimo chilly telling me to stop complaining in my all brick construction with the stupid bloody safety windows that barely open. Ooh I'm so cross.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Ooh I'm so cross.

Have a calypo m8. Simmer down.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Floridian: Oh, so [PandaChai] is complaining about normal weather again?
Perhaps it has something to do with me being 20+ degrees of latitude higher north than you, you gator-raping swamp creature?! I saw both elderly & toddler family this week and both were deeply unwell from the heat. I'm sick of Americans living in their plywood houses with AC set low enough to leave an eskimo chilly telling me to stop complaining in my all brick construction with the stupid bloody safety windows that barely open. Ooh I'm so cross.

If it’s that bad.

Cool box, 2 computer fans and a usb power cable to a battery bank.

 

[James X Maxwell]

https://www.thejusticegap.com/juror-who-collapsed-a-murder-trial-by-researching-joint-enterprise-jailed-for-four-months/

A juror who collapsed a murder trial by reading up on the highly contested law of ‘joint enterprise’ has been jailed for four months. Paul Richards, undertaking jury service in a trial of three people relating to a man’s murder in South Wales, had discovered an article online on the Guardian.

The jury had been given directions by the trial judge not to carry out their own research into the case. According to BBC News, about a week into the trial ‘Richards, while in the jury room, was overheard by an usher telling other jurors about joint enterprise murder’. ‘As a result, the jury had to be discharged and new jurors selected,’ it said.

The man’s phone was seized and he subsequently admitted that reading Guardian article. The case concerned Kieran Carter, from Birmingham, who was found guilty of murdering Daniel Rae over a drug debt after a new jury was selected for a trial at Cardiff Crown Court. Two other people received suspended sentences for offences in connection with the case.

Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke accepted that Richard was not motivated by malice and that the responsibility of being a Dura weighed heavily, but also described his actions as a ‘flagrant disobedience of the court’s directions’. ‘Had the usher not inadvertently happened upon you, it may be that this would never have come to light, and the verdicts of the jury of which you were a member could have been returned on the basis of a misunderstanding of the law on joint enterprise, or other improper considerations,’ she said.

Jan Cunliffe, co-founder of the campaign group JENGbA, pointed out ‘Paul Richard’s isn’t alone when it comes to struggling with the concept of joint enterprise’. ‘Defendants struggle too,’ she told the Justice Gap. ‘When my son was charged with joint enterprise murder a simple google search left me with nothing. Let’s not forget how judges misinterpreted the law for 32 years and how legal commentators describe JE as a complex area of law. Mr Richards is now being punished for wanting to understand a legal doctrine even our judiciary failed to understand for three decades.’

Richard’s lawyer Ruth Smith said her client had taken his civic duty ‘very seriously’ and struggled with some of the legal concepts in the case. ‘He is deeply ashamed of his behaviour,’ she said. ‘It is a very sad set of circumstances that sees a 65-year-old man before the court who has previously led an exemplary life.’

Can the big brains in the thread tell me why a judge put a man in jail for looking up Joint Enterprise law

 

[GratsTheat783]

Linton-On-Ouse, a small village of just 800 people in North Yorkshire is set to receive 3,750 illegal migrants, outnumbering the population by over 4 to 1 (X).

Is this some sort of test for pushback? It really feels like it.

I bring tidings of worse news.

Turns out those changes to migration are this;
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yz952dm74o (https://archive.ph/qFm2x)

We are beyond fucked now.

Voluntary and community groups will be permitted to sponsor refugees to come to the UK from the autumn

I think that since Labour's in a weird in-between state right now, we're going to see a bunch of really controversial laws try to pass in the next few weeks before Burnham takes over. Starmer's leaving so getting upset at him for it would be pointless, while Burnham's not even in yet so getting upset at him would also be pointless.

I've seen some leftists say that to stop illegal immigrants, we need more legal routes into the UK I think with the idea that genuine refugees will take the legal routes and it will be more inconvenient to take the illegal routes in. It sounds like shit to me, but I think that's the logic they're going with for this bill. Hopefully it doesn't pass.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

I think It's also important to say that if you have a partner/wife/husband/retard athen try to educatre them, I know there are a lot of veteran members here who have admitted their spouses are left-wing/or speak in anger when talking about politics. If you have kids, I get it, but if not, then man the fuck up and stop being a giant retarded pussy, because you are also the problem.

"I'm right-wing, believe in this, but my girlfriend is a member of the green party". I hope her pussy is green and gives you some deformed fungus cock. I guess it';s the WIMBY issue, "I agree with this, but not in my garden".

Trying to find a woman that isn't some flavour of shitlib is like trying to find a needle in a haystack - we're talking about the gender that'll complain that it's not safe to go outside at night and then proceed to vote for the "import infinity rapists" party (also known as the Greens) because someone sent them an image of a crying brown child. You have to take what you can get.

 

[EddyRooney]

You have to take what you can get.

No, no you don't. The juice is defintely not worth the squeeze.

 

[Liechtenstein]

You have to take what you can get.

and this mentality is why we aren't seeing certian VILLAGER heads on pikes, complimenting the scene of a burning MINECRAFT mosque