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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.

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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The idea the country needs more devolution and middle managers is fundamentally fucking retarded, and getting more retarded as I think about it. We are an island smaller than most US states. MPs in Westminster already represent a constituency, now cities are run by Mayors, Lord Mayors, councillors, MPs, metro mayors, combined authorities, and god knows who else. There's no single decision maker or person who can be held accountable, 'that's not our jurisdiction', more fucking employees of the state. MPs and councillors need to be held accountable for their failures in the Norf, particularly how they have let the female population be raped by browns and get away with it, they can't invest in anything that isn't a blatant scam, and HS2 is spaffed. They can't even get a tram system going in Leeds.
No one had the ability to do anything (see McSweeney whining about how Labour was unprepared for how odious the civil service is) and no one has passion, vision, or drive, or even a love for their community and nation. Manchester is 'doing alright' compared to Newcastle, or Leeds, or Pennine farmers, or anywhere in Scotland. The only reason why Manchester is relevant is because a terrorist blew up little girls at an arena, and the nudge unit had to scramble to give Manchester its bee logo and its quirky identity so people didn't take to the streets. 'No man we're Manchester we're cooool we're artsy we're not racist.' Manchesterism was a pressure value, and so is No10 North.
This Rochdale groomer is gonna be a fucking headache for the government if they do not deport him.
There's outrage in Glasgow because the police were filmed protecting one of the kiddy diddler browns up there from an angry mob. If it happens in Rochdale (and he's allegedly already threatening women there to stay in their houses), Burnham will not be inheriting a laid-back North that is ready to accept a King.
 
Here is the linked video:
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Strange how it’s only Big Mo who’s untouchable with hurty words here. I’d wager you could happily insult the royal family and the PM in public and not get arrested. You can slander the Pope and the various Christian religions all day and night with no police problems.

There’s no two tier policing though, this is all sensitivity and diversity. Apparently.
 
Strange how it’s only Big Mo who’s untouchable with hurty words here. I’d wager you could happily insult the royal family and the PM in public and not get arrested. You can slander the Pope and the various Christian religions all day and night with no police problems.

There’s no two tier policing though, this is all sensitivity and diversity. Apparently.
During the coronation republicans were spread across the parade route and police were confiscating signs and deliberating if they were "offensive" or not. This is shit they do in Thailand FFS!!!
 
I'm working on a thread for this character.
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What is the context of this? The person recording/speaking also has dirty, brown hands so?
Strange how it’s only Big Mo who’s untouchable with hurty words here. I’d wager you could happily insult the royal family and the PM in public and not get arrested. You can slander the Pope and the various Christian religions all day and night with no police problems.

There’s no two tier policing though, this is all sensitivity and diversity. Apparently.
Yeah, the laws here are weird, technically there are no blasphemy laws, we have "freedom of speech". But this all goes out the window if you wanna talk about the Public Order Act 1986, where you can commit and offense if your words are in anyway threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended to cause harassment, distress or alarm.

So for example, in this video, TECHNICALLY the police are allowed to do this because this man is deliberately being provocative in a public setting and towards the pro-palestine march/whatever it is. Though, we all bloody know, if this was flipped the other way round, none of the police would dare lay a finger on any muzzie or brown, and instead try to "keep the peace" by speaking respectfully to them, but when it's your regular whitey, just smash their head against the wall and spit on them.

In reality, the police will do whatever the fuck they want, when they want and are extremely selective and subjective. If anyone says there is no two-tier policing/two-tier justice system, they are most likely a green party/lib dem voter (NIMBY) who will never have to come across any muslim/brown and if they do, they most likely guzzle muslim cock down their throats anyway.
 
The Public Order Act is willfully and intentionally misused.

Mohammed was a pedophile; the Koran explicitly tells muslims to always side with other muslims,even when they break the law; islam is evil; muslims are pedophile worshipping cunts who despise you.

This is all fact and the reality that stating facts can get you arrested is appalling

Islam is NOT a race, despise that fat spastic of a police "man" claiming it's a "racialist issue". Islam is a nonce worshipping death cult.
 
The Public Order Act is willfully and intentionally misused.

Mohammed was a pedophile; the Koran explicitly tells muslims to always side with other muslims,even when they break the law; islam is evil; muslims are pedophile worshipping cunts who despise you.

This is all fact and the reality that stating facts can get you arrested is appalling

Islam is NOT a race, despise that fat spastic of a police "man" claiming it's a "racialist issue". Islam is a nonce worshipping death cult.
It's so backwards. All you have to do to silence another person is chimp out at what they say. If you do that, they have disturbed the peace. So then they can't say that thing, even if it is factual and reasonable. Just chimp out ("HE INSULTED MUH PROPHET, REEEE") and the police must stop them from saying it.

Rupert, please change this ass-backwards law. It's ridiculous.
 
It's the burning up of all their money on cruise ships and holidays to benidorm while children starve
My parents are boomers. They don’t do this. None of their friends do this. Every single one of them lives in a modest home they paid for by leaving school at sixteen and working for decades and all of them are on their last legs and want only to pass what they have to their children without the fucking government stealing it all in tax. Boomer vs whatever is a psyop to divide communities and destroy families
As for blasphemy laws, Blair almost got his religious hatred bill through which would have put that on the books officially. Clearly it’s just snuck in via SOP.
 
So for example, in this video, TECHNICALLY the police are allowed to do this because this man is deliberately being provocative in a public setting and towards the pro-palestine march/whatever it is. Though, we all bloody know, if this was flipped the other way round, none of the police would dare lay a finger on any muzzie or brown, and instead try to "keep the peace" by speaking respectfully to them, but when it's your regular whitey, just smash their head against the wall and spit on them.
I suspect given how quickly they reacted to the mention of mohammed and trotted out their rehearsed "you're under arrest for a racial aggravation offense (from what I could hear in the scuffle and shit audio one of the cops said what you said about mohammed is a racist....)" that it's part of their training to just go after any non-browns who bring up the sacred muslim cow in any negative capacity. I wonder if they get pavloved into it and start salivating when they hear his name, ready to bump up their arrest quotas for naughty speech.
Also insane how the country that was notorious for being a nation of hecklers has decided provocative speech is not allowed.
It's so backwards. All you have to do to silence another person is chimp out at what they say. If you do that, they have disturbed the peace. So then they can't say that thing, even if it is factual and reasonable. Just chimp out ("HE INSULTED MUH PROPHET, REEEE") and the police must stop them from saying it.
The most maddening part of it is they don't even need to have anyone point a finger and waah about what you said anymore. So long as the cops have a reason to believe someone might get offended with the cut of your jib, then that's all the rationale they need to make the arrest. Look at the video above, the cops move in to arrest the guy before anyone he's heckling even reacts. It sails right past the notion of "pre-crime intervention" and just goes straight into the territory of effectively vigilantism, where the foot patrol police become arbiters given how even if you aren't convicted in a trial for the "offense" you can still be handed a citation and have a black mark put on your record which fucks up the remainder of your working life.
 
I'm genuinely surprised the government didn't just waive the licensing times between Sunday and Monday because IF the game gets delayed then it's going to be one hell of a funny situation when 5am comes along and the game is still going on but everyone has to get booted out of the pubs.

It's one thing if the game was scheduled at 11pm on a Saturday night because you'd have regular punters in anyway, but these folk are going out of their way to watch the match at a stupid time and if it turns out they could have just stayed at home to watch the end of the game then you're going to see a LOT of pissed off drunk people fighting with the police at 5am.
 
As much as I despise boat vermin and want them all drowned, I'm glad "nice" places are having this foisted upon them.

For far too fucking long, those of us who have experienced reality level interactions with immigrants, have seen them for what they are. And it's turned out tolerance to extreme hatred, because it's impossible not to hate nearly all of them. And the whole fucking time, the middle classes who have no fucking idea what sort of hell it is, have been lecturing us to "be kind".

Tell you what, let's see how fucking long their reserves of kindness last. Let's see how they like it when they have to deal with bulb-headed, dysgeninc, mystery meat niggers, following them and being aggressive. Let's see how they like it when one of their own is raped, or worse, and they can't hide behind their mental block of, "well this only happens to working class slags who come from broken homes". How will they feel when there's no social housing at all in their area from people born and raised there, but it's handed on a goddamn platter to Achmed, who by the way, is a criminal but can't be shipped back to his shithole of origin.


This whole thing is, in my mind, like rubbing a cat's nose in the dirty great shit on your lovely carpet.

The state of the country, our country, is a sloppy, fetid shit; it has happened because people who have no lived experience of the problems caused by it have refused to listen to those of us who do, and I say, force them,nose first into that ginormous turd and force them to face up to it.

I only hope and pray that, by the time the penny fucking drops, the resulting shift in voting behavior isn't too late.
I remember reading some quotes from this extreme upper-class Oxford dinner a while ago, and thinking the past 15 years suddenly make a lot more sense if some of the people who make decisions truly believe things like this.

“This is also about a gulf in political instinct [between most voters and many members of the policy elite] . I was struck by this two years ago dining at an Oxford college. When I said to my neighbour, one of the country’s most senior civil servants, that I wanted to write a book about why liberals should be more sceptical about large-scale immigration, he frowned and said, ‘I disagree. When I was at the Treasury I argued for the most open door possible to immigration … I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare not national welfare.’ I was surprised to hear this from such a senior figure in a very national institution and asked the man sitting next to the civil servant, one of the most powerful television executives in the country, whether he believed global welfare should be put before national welfare, if the two should conflict. He said he believed global welfare was paramount and that therefore he had a greater obligation to someone in Burundi than to someone in Birmingham."


 
I suspect given how quickly they reacted to the mention of mohammed and trotted out their rehearsed "you're under arrest for a racial aggravation offense (from what I could hear in the scuffle and shit audio one of the cops said what you said about mohammed is a racist....)" that it's part of their training to just go after any non-browns who bring up the sacred muslim cow in any negative capacity. I wonder if they get pavloved into it and start salivating when they hear his name, ready to bump up their arrest quotas for naughty speech.
Also insane how the country that was notorious for being a nation of hecklers has decided provocative speech is not allowed.
Is the problem that the guy is shouting it at a load of people of that faith ? I mean that is pretty provocative....not to mention dangerous as a crowd of that ilk will have very low impulse control. That could be interrpreted as inciteful.

Was the law applied more fairly in 2011 ?

I can remember thinking back then that the filthy scum protestors got off rather lightly in my eyes. I don't know how they didn't get lynched. I suppose that's the bar for incitement.
 
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Not much will focus your desire for the future to improve more than having some children. I say go for it, and be the change you want to see.
Otterly with all due respect you're a woman and that means something entirely different to me. I know what you're saying, I know what being the change you want to see means but to me that's a 'go partake in the whitest passtime of maintenance', you're a medical person, I don't need to tell you the importance of sharpness in surgical settings. I cannot think of a way to change this country for the better that would not result in any future children being culturally enlightened to the african american way of parenting. Last time I checked being racist didn't give you the ability to phase through metal bars unfortunately.

I just needed to take a break and just fucking go meditate in a bog in the highlands for a month. I've said pretty clearly the rough area I grew up in. I fucking wish that I was not able to say this. I wish that I would be too scared of being doxxed but no it doesn't even fucking narrow down where I live even remotely to say that I fucking grew up in a place named in Lowe's report. But no this fucking abominable country it's so widespread that it's fucking meaningless. I wish that I was not able to say that. I would prefer to not have every school memory recontextualised. Here I was thinking that it was just chavs being chavs as to why they were talking about sex and alcohol and drugs as early teenagers. Maybe it was, maybe they were just chavs, but I would still rather not have the thought of 'oh shit were all of the people I went to school with actually being mass raped by fucking pakis' as a credible and genuine possibility. Also kier's fucking dead or some shit. The tyrant is dead long live the tyrant. Where's that Warwick thread midget boy?
 
Is the problem that the guy is shouting it at a load of people of that faith ? I mean that is pretty provocative....not to mention dangerous as a crowd of that ilk will have very low impulse control. That could be interrpreted as inciteful.

Was the law applied more fairly in 2011 ?

I can remember thinking back then that the filthy scum protestors got off rather lightly in my eyes. I don't know how they didn't get lynched. I suppose that's the bar for incitement.
Personally think any sort of speech laws which draw the line at perceived incitement (e.g. calling soldiers murderers like the people in that article vs. actual incitement where they actively call for the soldiers to be killed in retaliation) is pathetic. It just leads to neutered freedom of expression where you can only express sentiments which do not buck the status quo.

My contention is the concept that the provocative nature of the speech is in of itself the arrestable offense is ludicrous. If you call (former) Prince Andrew a disgusting nonce that could be perceived as provocative even if it's not an untrue statement, so the onus on whether or not to make an arrest is at the discretion of the low-IQ troglodytes that make up the British police force and as you touched on yourself, their "interpretation" of the conduct. If they were worried the bloke calling mohammed and islam evil was going to result in the crowd chimping out and attacking him, then why the fuck are they even there at the protest if not to keep the sides apart. It's telling that their reaction to a potential for escalation wasn't "right let's make sure no one from either side of the street gets close enough to throw fists" but instead was to immediately arrest him, speaks volumes about their purpose which is to detain any naysayers and uphold the protected class.

I'm not happy with any situation where the limit to my freedom of expression is not whether or not I'm making knowingly untrue statements or if I'm calling for violence, but instead is whether some fucking degenerate is going to get upset with something I said that hurt their feelings. How the laws are written right now it leaves it so intentionally vague and open-ended as to whether something is provocative or upsetting to the public order that it can be basically applied carte blanche to any situation the governing bodies feel like.
 
I will not be surprised if the government/establishment start pushing to ban/limit X, especially as the next general election approaches. X is the only place currently where people have seen proper evidence of the two-tier policing/justice system and they will certainly want to stop that.
 
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