William Lucas

@JMC_1973 @SalopianLyne

@SalopianLyne @WJLucas In 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on the 4th, had a run off 413 on the 5th April 1988 though!:-

York Station 4th April 1988 British Rail Class 47413 heads north with a Liverpool-Newcastle service. The large logo generator hauling a smart rake of Trans-Pennine Mark 2 Coaches #BritishRail #York #Newcastle #Liverpool #trainspotting #Class47 #diesels #TransPennine 🤓

@SteveWhiteRail Unit has 5 min turnaround at Sudbury & 3 min connection back at Marks Tey to London, so holding 7 mins means prob misses connection to London. But obviously many more inconvenienced by missed connection on down in evening

@greateranglia why didn’t you hold the Sudbury train at Marks Tey for the booked connection off the 18.02 from Liverpool Street?

Week 6. Day 1. Blackwood. Latham. Mirvis. It’s a long post. But I had a lot to say. My observations, my opinions, but I truly believe they are all valid. I’d be very open and interested to hear views from others in the world of Psychiatry. I don’t want to be closed minded. But what I witnessed today was weak, defensive, calculating and little more than reputation preservation. #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

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@mtpennycook - you’ve been community noted.

‼️BROKEN BRITAIN‼️ A wounded, scared British woman who had just been ganged raped, phoned @nottspolice pleading for help. They eventually turn up to the victims flat and arrest her, mock her and eventually make this poor lady walk home alone. This isn't a joke. Link below: 👇 share.google/KkZaYtfKhbkLDx…

I’ve been asked to share my statement from our evidence at the Inquiry yesterday. So here it is. Thank you to all who listened, and continue to listen. 🫶 #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

Ministers who default to risk aversion and slip into analysis paralysis are unlikely to deliver radical programmes against hugely powerful vested interests. Matthew Pennycook was closely engaged with the detail as the 2024 Act progressed through Parliament under the previous government. It is also worth noting that the Act would not have passed without Labour’s support during the wash-up process, which required cross-party agreement. However, ultimately ending residential leasehold requires political will, and HM Treasury appears to be a key constraint. Pennycook continues to claim a small number of defects in the 2024 Act, the details of which both he and the government have been notably cagey about, as justification for delaying commencement. This increasingly looks like political positioning rather than a substantive barrier. The government has had nearly 2 years now to address any technical deficiencies through other legislative vehicles, including the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 and the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025, both MHCLG-led packages. They have chosen not to. I think your perspective significantly understates the influence of deep-pocketed vested interests. They benefit from delay, running down the clock on reform, and exert considerable influence within the political system, including a receptive audience in HM Treasury. They also have the resources to outmatch far less organised and underfunded leaseholders. In this context, complexity serves as a convenient justification for what amounts to corporate capture. It is also worth pointing out that much of the policy groundwork was undertaken by the Law Commission across four substantial reports published in 2020. That we are still being told the issue is “complex” is disturbing, particularly given that the government was elected with a democratic mandate to end the leasehold system. If we set aside the corporate capture argument, this government’s foot-dragging and excuse-making on leasehold and commonhold is just another example of the failure of the British state to deliver for the people. Going beyond the lobbying from vested interests who argue that ending an entirely unnecessary rent extraction industry shaking down people in their homes would destroy economic growth or pension funds, there is also a European Convention on Human Rights and judicial review dimension. This government appears petrified of litigation risk, to the point that the threat of special interests suing the government is dictating policy outcomes. In effect, the tail is wagging the dog. Look up Lord Hermer KC. His Attorney General’s Guidance on Legal Risk places emphasis on avoiding policies that could invite judicial review. The freeholder lobby is highly litigious and will sue the government if Ministers send them a thank you card. The result of Lord Hermer’s changes is impoverishing policymaking in the leasehold space at precisely the moment when systems thinking and some imagination is required. It’s not like Lord Hermer wasn’t warned. In January 2025, Labour MP Sarah Russell told him at the Justice Select Committee that his changes risk having a “chilling effect” on leasehold reform. Don’t fall for the government spin on this!

THAT'S WHY HE'S THE FUCKING GOAT! 🚀

The High Court proceedings against me have been discontinued in full for both claims (defamation and an injunction) effective immediately. I am therefore entitled to my costs amounting to a substantial sum. Please follow @CharlesTerf for future updates on this matter.

This video is getting a lot of attention. Notice: the @Law_Commission has untagged itself from the post. The government doesn’t want people to know the truth about its betrayal of leaseholders. Fun fact: the Law Commission is headed by the housing minister’s wife!

This Thursday will mark 500 days since the 1st test train through Winslow Station yet there’s still no sign of the station opening - some driver testing has even been paused. Chiltern Railways & the unions continue to bicker & the Government continues to fail to step in to resolve the deadlock. Meanwhile us taxpayers are paying £1m a year in security costs for an unused station. Chiltern, the unions & the Government are all to blame but none are in any hurry to resolve this. Some even say the station will open next year. Who knows if it will even be open in another 500 days time.

No. I don’t. Not anymore. Not since our LGB movement was hijacked by the likes of you. But I was there before you, doing my bit since the late 80’s. Watching my friends die one by one. Being truly marginalised & despised. You wouldn’t know anything about that. Because you just don’t care about anyone but yourselves. And do you know what? Not ONCE did we ever ask for ANYTHING but EQUALITY. Unlike you lot, who turned up late, trashed & ruined the party for everyone & act like you’re entitled to other people’s spaces. So spare me your dramatics. It’s extremely tiresome.

Propaganda Im afraid @MayorofGM ... as you know, I came to you. As did trusted colleagues. With indisputable evidence of gross neglect at the top of GMP. You dismissed us. It took HMIC to act. Not you. You failed in your duty as PCC and can’t be trusted. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

47311 at Derby with 1E69 1058 Weymouth to Leeds on the 20th June 1981.

As 20,000 innocent Iranians are murdered in the streets, Iranians are shocked to see that neither the disgraceful UN Secretary General nor many of the West's famous news organizations nor virtually all the 'humanitarian' NGOs nor the international 'human rights' courts and their lawyers have supported them, exposing much about who controls who in the hierarchy of grievances and the degradation of the entire NGOsphere and the rules-based supranational infrastructure. For 40 years, Iranian dissidents nicknamed the British broadcaster “BBC Ayatollah” and in the last three weeks, the BBC and Sky initially avoided the protests. Ironically the comedian Omid Djalili was providing better coverage than the BBC whose coverage was embarrasing. The UN, long protecting Iran, abetted by its allies Russia and China, ignored it altogether and its secretary-general was revealed as a patspaw for vicious tyrannies. Only on Thursday did the security council hold a session at which the dissident Masih Alinejad, whom the regime had tried to assassinate, reprimanded António Guterres, the compromised secretary-general: “the Secretary-general has not spoken publicly against the massacre … Secretary-general why are you afraid of the Islamic Republic?” Iranian protesters chanted 'Neither Gaza nor Lebanon My Life for Iran' and in favour of the Shah and his son. Western activists have resisted backing this new anti-Islamic revolution, long seeing radical Iran as an authentic popular bulwark against US and Israeli power and Western imperialism - a shameful now unveiled view long espoused by many prominent TV anchors, newsrooms as well as the 'humanitarian' and international law NGOsphere and the 'peace' pro-Palestine activists. Iranians are outraged by his brazen ammoral humbug: “Where is the left now? Where are the ‘pro-Palestinian’ and ‘anti-war’ activists when the Islamic Republic is killing innocent Iranians?” asks Alinejad. The Iranian Yale lecturer Arash Azizi reflects: “You would have thought leftists would understand the killing of Iranians on the streets fighting against a brutal capitalist regime. But unfortunately they don’t. The western leftist movements hate the West. They hate their own societies.” Unlike the Islamists, the shah refused to slaughter Iranians, as did Louis XVI, Charles X, Louis Philippe, Napoleon III and Nicholas II who hesitated to unleash violence so as not to taint the succession of their sons. Now almost to the day since his father left Iran 47 years ago, Prince Reza is the leading opposition symbol. Critics question whether he has real support and we know little of who Iranians would really support after a revolution. But inconvenient and embarrassing as it is to the West's 'anti-imperalists' he obviously has spport as a symbol if not a future king. He will never represent that the 20% of Iranians who support the Islamist dictatorship nor probably the far left but it is now up to Prince Reza to assemble a wider coalition of other parties and attitudes if he really wishes to become a future leader around whom most Iranians can rally. But it is little wonder Iranians see the shah’s reign as golden: their royalism, says the journalist Roohola Ramezani, who escaped Iran days ago, is “not a return to absolute autocracy but a symbolic bulwark against the failure of clerical republicanism … the throne reimagined as a secular shield” and he adds that the funding of faraway Islamist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah, have outraged Iranians who see billions of their money wasted on murderous paramilitaries. Some have chanted for Israel and waved Israeli flags.... thetimes.com/comment/column…

Not a word about the rights of women. Shameful.

47374 at Cardiff with V92 1423 Manchester Picc - Cardiff 25th June 1981, 374 between New Street - Cardiff

I am a committed trade unionist of 35 years standing. I am proud of everything the trade union movement has achieved throughout history. But its abandonment of women fighting to defend their sex-based rights makes me ashamed. Whenever there is a successful tribunal or court result for women - such as today, with the Darlington nurses - mainstream unions are nowhere to be seen. And invariably they lament the outcome. Women are being forced to rely on the Free Speech Union and Christian groups to fight their corner. It’s an utter disgrace.