Gavin writes Energy & Industrial, Treasury, Transport,Tech -Ai policy & legislation. 45 years of consulting worldwide on Business & Regulatory Affairs.

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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
Dexit, Frexit, Nexit, Spexit, Irexit……is the EU on the point of crumbling….it has not been on the agenda for ages but talk of actually leaving is happening in many countries. Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland all have political upheaval on the agenda, and are all deeply unhappy with immigration and being forced to accept EU mandates over their borders and economies. The upcoming elections in Spain and France and mounting pressure in the other 3 nations may change things drastically. If you live in any of those countries please comment, we’d love to hear your views.
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May I add, A big "thank you" to @benhabib6 & all the members of our AdvanceUK College who created the Framework for policies & principles that can offer a benchmark for other parties of the right when choosing where to lend their support. That template of holistic operational plans for Government, mark out the path of repealing legislation the country needs to return Sovereignty to Parliament & the people. I would urge @KemiBadenoch to engage with @GreatBritishPAC & our former College members & secure that her superb words today in Birmingham can be reflected in action. This is NOT a time to gamble with brinkmanship.
Replying to @Nigel_Farage
I'm afraid you are wrong again Nigel. As a former Reform member & AdvanceUK College member I can honestly say @KemiBadenoch & her team are in my filter & providing I can confirm that her speech is backed by detailed policies & Repeal bills, I will be rejoining the Conservative & Unionist party of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. @benhabib6 @RupertLowe10 @KathrynPorter26 @MarkJLittlewood @Iromg @DRhodes65 @HowardCoxFFUK
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The edifice of corruption manifest in their attempts to distract from reality with an artful dodge. @POTUS @elonmusk
First thought this was a poor joke, but this is in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg. Putting a mockery of the President of the USA or any democratic country there is juvenile, provocative and moronic. It reveals just how far the EU establishment has sunk.
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
🚨🇪🇺EU chief Ursula von der Leyen announced sending €1.24 billion for drones and missiles to Ukraine. This woman, who was never elected by the people to lead the EU, takes taxpayers' money and sends it to a war that is not theirs. Just as she takes your money, tomorrow she will take your children and send them to war.
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
Look at the rogues gallery that support the IRA occupation of Garvaghy.....
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
In the literal back row at the @Conservatives conference after being delayed at the hotel so I could be on @Iromg's show to talk all things energy It's been a busy month, speaking at Fringe events at @reformparty_uk last month and @UKLabour last week before coming here Energy is, rightly, a hot topic. How we provide affordable, secure and clean energy is a critical question Too many businesses are closing due to high energy prices. Too many industries are being lost overseas, offshoring emissions to places with dirtier energy And too many families are struggling to afford basic heating We need a rational energy policy that doesn't prefer virtue signalling over doing the right thing Offshoring emissions is NOT the right thing. It's bad for the environment, bad for the UK economy, bad for British jobs and bad for the communities where these industries go, which are too often in countries that not only have dirty energy, but weak environmental controls, poor worker safety standards and even child and forced labour Polluting other people's environments is not virtuous. Pretending we're reducing emissions when we're actually increasing them is dishonest and unethical Energy policy needs to be based on accurate data and evidence. Not ideology. Not wishful thinking. Not some dream of a green utopia that has no foundation in reality Ministers need to clearly articulate the tradeoffs and ensure public consent for their policies Don't ask if people care about the environment and then take this as permission to turn the electricity grid into an expensive unreliable monster that creaks when it's not windy or sunny Explain how much renewables cost, what levels of energy security may have to be sacrificed, whether people will be allowed to cool as well as heat their homes, whether they will be forced to travel less whether by car or plane Don't slip huge reductions in mobility into carbon budgets nobody reads Don't pretend a grid NESO cannot model properly (because it can't see or control the huge amounts of solar and batteries connected to low voltage grids) is robust and will remain so Don't lie about the costs and accuse then anyone challenging them of climate denial Don't pretend moving emissions to a poorer country is good for the planet and definitely don't pretend it's ethical to assist in the exploitation of people who are forced to work in unsafe conditions or that we can build a "just transition" on the backs of literal slaves #EnergySecurity #CheapEnergy #TrueSustainability @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @harrietc @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattotele @jonathan_leake @afneil @ofgem @energygovuk @neso_energy
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
ALL MAJOR IPCC CLIMATE LIES DEMOLISHED Coming soon in ten new papers. Climate craziness abolished.
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The "Democrats" don't like voter ID or a low tax economy because they are socialists. De Niro represents them really well. @POTUS
A deranged Robert de Niro has really lost the plot. The ramblings of a madman. #TheLooneyLeft #RobertdeNiro #VoteRepublican #GodBlessPresidentTrump
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
The shape of the world's oceans that endlessly lap our shores is a direct result of an ancient, deep-Earth system—controlled by the planet’s own thermodynamic and geological engine. Oceans have never been just a featureless, static backdrop. The ocean's mood swings have always shifted over deep time, driven by the physics of changing water mass, fluid density and the evolving geometry of the ocean basins themselves. These fundamental mechanisms lie far from sight below the waves, and largely ignored. We do track surface weather, yet remain blind to deep-ocean density, tectonic shifts, and the long-term cooling of undersea crustal plates. Science has better topographical maps of the surface of Mars than of our ocean floors—or the motions of deep currents carrying planetary heat upwards from the tropics. These adjustments unfold over very long timelines, from seasonal cycles to hundreds of millions of years. Overall sea level is governed by natural variations in mass, thermal changes in the Earth's crust and regional dynamics. While the Earth's total water budget is fixed, its distribution is in constant flux. During glacial periods, water is frozen in huge ice sheets kilometres thick, directly lowering ocean levels. During warmer interglacial periods, thermal energy returns meltwater to the seas. On geological timescales, sea levels are dictated by the physical capacity of the ocean basins. At mid-ocean ridges, new crust is continuously formed by upwelling magma. When tectonic activity accelerates, these underwater mid-ocean mounts expand, swell, and displace immense volumes of water. Conversely, at deep-sea trenches, older, denser crust plunges back into the mantle. Over millions of years, the buckling of the crust builds mountain ranges while deep ocean trenches alter the basin's shape and holding capacity. As newly formed oceanic crust moves away from spreading mid-ocean ridges, it cools, grows denser and sinks—a process of thermal subsidence that continually deepens the ocean floor. The water itself expands and contracts continuously, adjusting sea levels as water density fluctuates with temperature and salinity.
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
This....
Miatta You go to real UK industries like steel, oil, gas, refineries, chemicals, cement, potteries etc & speak to those communities You will be met with rage and fury at what your Net Stupid Zero policies have done Then talk to ordinary families who cannot pay their energy bills Then talk to businesses that cannot invest and grow or survive due to high energy costs Then you will see & hear the damage you eco zealots have done
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
Very very proud that me, my wife, two sons, brother and his kids are in the strong minded 15% that kept their sanity and told them to poke their jabs up their arse!!!
Only 15% refused the Covid vaccine. This means 85% did exactly what they were told to do.. that is an amazing number of people who followed like sheep.
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
Labour have increased unemployment and caused a lot of young people to be put on the scrap heap. Youth unemployment is at the highest in a decade because of Labour’s jobs tax. Kemi and the Conservatives will reverse it.
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
We're having to rely on the kindness of foreign strangers to keep the lights on through the interconnectors. Our ~55GW of wind and solar installed capacity is generating just 1.5GW. What happened to all that cheap, clean homegrown power @Miatsf ?
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
Burnham’s shows his ignorance. He thinks UK energy prices are high because of overseas conflicts. Which affects everyone. So why does the U.K. have the highest in the World? Nut Zero. #CostofNetZero #LabourParty notalotofpeopleknowthat.word…
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
Kemi Badenoch at the Tory conference. “I don’t want lots of little ghettos of separatist communities where they are recreating the place that they came from. That will ruin the United Kingdom.” “This is our home. It is not a dormitory. It is not a hotel. Even if people come here just to work, they need to respect our culture.” The places already cited in that argument are familiar. Sparkhill and Alum Rock in Birmingham, parts of Bradford and Oldham, and pockets of Tower Hamlets and Leicester, where English is a minority language on the street and marriage, schooling and politics often run on separate lines. Rotherham and Rochdale showed what happens when authorities refuse to notice patterns for fear of the row.
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THE END. You will be cold & wave goodbye to your children as they emigrate at a scale unseen since the 1940's. @FatEmperor @RealEddieHobbs @museumsireland @JohnHann04 @elonmusk
What does he expect them to buy with this. The €5 fuel allowance wouldn’t buy a bail of briquettes. The €3 living alone allowance wouldn’t buy a pound of butter. Meanwhile he handed over €855 million for foreign aid, while Justice, Home Affairs & Migration = €2.146 Billion
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
Replying to @FT
For more details about Laboyr's EU Reset and how it will affect UK food and farming businesses and UK taxpayers (obeying EU rules is not free!) read the GBBC's new paper: Unconditional Surrender! gbbc.uk/wp-content/uploads/2…
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After 50 years at the coal face of business, innovation & technology, I can honestly say, The degree of government stupidity & peril to our nation is akin to being defeated in a world war. Economic & social negligence based on Chernobyl scale denial. @KathrynPorter26 @LiamHalligan @KemiBadenoch @benhabib6 @Iromg @MarkJLittlewood
Miatta You go to real UK industries like steel, oil, gas, refineries, chemicals, cement, potteries etc & speak to those communities You will be met with rage and fury at what your Net Stupid Zero policies have done Then talk to ordinary families who cannot pay their energy bills Then talk to businesses that cannot invest and grow or survive due to high energy costs Then you will see & hear the damage you eco zealots have done
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I raise your 100% To 1000% 1980's when we made our children & enjoyed the freedom & security to visit the pub & eat out every weekend. We drove dream cars & were proud to call Britain our paradise. If only we could realise the good times again. @UKLiveOnline
ONE MILLION PER CENT…..It’s not even vaguely arguable!!!
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Gavin Maxwell Policy & Regulatory Advisor retweeted
“When we win the next election,” Kemi Badenoch told her party conference on Sunday, adding after a pause: “And we will win the next election.” The Conservative leader’s confidence drew relieved applause from activists in Birmingham who just 12 months ago feared they were doomed ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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