Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

Blackhall Joined April 2016

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Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC

2 days ago

Régis Le Bris and Noah Sadiki will preview tomorrow’s game against Lech Poznań shortly, live from Poland 🎙️🇵🇱 📺 youtube.com/@SunderlandAFC…

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Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677

8 months ago

When the United States launched strikes on Iran, Britain's response was one of the most embarrassing performances by a Western government in living memory. John Healy refused six times to say whether Britain supported the action. Keir Starmer hedged, equivocated, and retreated into legal language while every comparable ally, Canada, Australia, Ukraine, stated their position clearly and without apology. It took Iranian missiles hitting a British base in Cyprus and a second day of bombardment before Starmer would even grant the US permission to use British overseas bases. That is not caution. That is paralysis. The official explanation is international law. Lord Hermer's legal opinion concluded the strikes had no clear basis in law. That explanation does not hold. The same legal framework did not stop Canada or Australia. It did not stop successive British governments acting alongside the United States in circumstances where legality was equally contested. And it does not explain why Starmer refused to even characterise the Iranian threat, despite sitting on classified intelligence his own security services describe as a tier-one national security concern. The real explanation is not legal. It is political. And it has been building for over twenty-five years. Britain is no longer a country whose government can make foreign policy decisions in isolation from domestic demography. In city after city, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford, Leicester, there are large and concentrated populations whose political loyalties, when it comes to conflicts in the Middle East, do not align with the British national interest. Elections have been won and lost on bloc votes organised around overseas conflicts. MPs sit in Parliament who owe their seats to communities for whom the Iran question is not abstract foreign policy but a matter of immediate and passionate concern. Starmer knows this. The calculation is not difficult to reverse-engineer. When Iranian clerics declared jihad following Khamenei's death and protests spread from Pakistan to Iraq, the question for any British Prime Minister was not only what happens in the Gulf. It was what happens in Tower Hamlets, in Sparkbrook, in Burnley. The threat of domestic unrest and political blowback within his own electoral coalition shaped the response the public saw. The legal opinion was the excuse. The demographic arithmetic was the reason. This did not happen by accident. It is the consequence of a border policy pursued by governments from Blair to Starmer that prioritised electoral calculation over national cohesion. Mass immigration without integration, without enforceable conditions, without honest public debate, has produced something no one in government will say plainly: a country that has lost the political freedom to act decisively when its interests require it. MI5 has confirmed twenty Iran-backed plots on British soil in two years. The parliamentary intelligence committee is expected to classify Iran as a threat on par with Russia and China. And yet the government cannot proscribe the IRGC, cannot state clearly whose side it is on, and cannot grant an ally access to a military base without waiting for missiles to land first. In 2006, Muammar Gaddafi predicted that Europe's fifty million Muslims would deliver Islam victory on the continent within a few decades, without swords, without conquest. He framed it as a prophecy. It reads now more like an operational assessment. Britain has not been conquered. It has been rendered impotent, by its own political choices, now visible in the body language of a Prime Minister who cannot say the obvious thing because too many of his voters do not want to hear it. That is the real answer to why Britain hesitated. Not Hermer. Not international law. Not principle. A governing party held hostage to the consequences of a demographic transformation it helped engineer and now dare not upset.

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Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC

a year ago

Fresh from signing new contracts, Luke O’Nien and Trai Hume relive some of their best moments in red & white ❤️🎬

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

3 years ago

@SAFCFANSVIEW Scum of the earth

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

3 years ago

@branalvere @swfc Try seeing this after you have lost your child, then we can talk. Absolutely disgusting behaviour

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

3 years ago

@Sunderland_GM This you @littlekev27

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

3 years ago

@ALS_Fanzine Lyle Taylor

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

3 years ago

@afowler06 @supreme_cbd Doesn’t give me the opportunity to put a code in mate, am I doing something wrong?

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

4 years ago

@EVRi_Delivery The bastards are getting away with murder, honestly it’s not to deliver parcels. They should be boycotted and put out of business😡😡😡

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

4 years ago

@EVRi_Delivery

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Roy @RoyOfTheRokers

4 years ago

Alex Neil signed a revised contract with Sunderland AFC 4 weeks ago. And then he's had a further offer yesterday. But people will still choose to blame the club, of course....

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

4 years ago

@charliersmith1 Same here pal

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Charlie Smith @charliersmith1

4 years ago

Been struggling a bit recently & for various reasons, I’ve felt ashamed of that fact. Every time I’ve tried to tweet, I’ve ended up deleting it. But, that changes today. So, here I am, being open & finally admitting that things are a little tough right now, but I’ll be okay ☺️

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

5 years ago

Neil Lennon should be nowhere near the Sunderland job the Celtic twat #SAFC

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

6 years ago

@EddieHearn This would be massive this fight, it’s a must see. Come on @Tyson_Fury get it on👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

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Chris @CWeatherspoon_

6 years ago

Ferran Soriano is CEO of Manchester City, a club which has over £600m of accumulated losses and has only remained 'sustainable' because its mega-rich owners have poured £1.3bn into the coffers in just 10 years Football does need a restructure but this is shameless self-interest

Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL

6 years ago

🤔🔄 Ferran Soriano says the EFL was not a sustainable business even before the coronavirus crisis and suggests now is the time to restructure, including the introduction of B teams...

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Paul Cunningham @cunninghampaul

7 years ago

@GeorgeCaulkin @Mo_Farah @carras16 @Tanni_GT @JillScottJS8 @alydixon262 @DeadManRunning1 @Lowery_83 @Great_Run @SimonCampbell11 @SBRFoundation Brilliant, George. Buzzing for Sunday now...in mind if not in body!

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Bradley Lowery Foundation @Bradleysfight

8 years ago

Bradley’s dad - Carl, is now completing the Fire walk on Tuesday as Gemma is unable to do so! Please sponsor him here - justgiving.com/campaign/gemma… #firewalk 🔥 more information below 💙

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Carl Lowery @Lowery_83

8 years ago

@SleevesElliott I think @robbeckettcomic jobs safe😷

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Craig Russell @craigruss

8 years ago

Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 stood on the pitch hearing & seeing that will live with me forever. I must admit I had a tear in my eye & lump in my throat 🔴⚪️ #SAFC

Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL

6 years ago

🤔🔄 Ferran Soriano says the EFL was not a sustainable business even before the coronavirus crisis and suggests now is the time to restructure, including the introduction of B teams...