‘We’re like heroin addicts!’ Furious row erupts as GB News guests clash over Britain’s energy crisis

Marcus Donaldson
Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:33:18 +0000

GB News guests have clashed after it was claimed Britain was compared to a “heroin addict” hooked on fossil fuels.

Ed Gemmell, leader of the Climate Party, rowed with historian Philip Kiszely over opening up new oil fields in the North Sea.

Mr Gemmel began by furiously slamming Mr Kiszely’s point about “climate cultism” as a “total load of drivel”.

“The reason we're in this problem at the moment is that we're still relying completely on oil and gas, and they're not providing security. It's not doing anything for us at all,” he claimed.

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“This drivel about going back to the old stuff polluting again, but also just making us not secure.

“We're like heroin addicts at the moment. We're chasing the dragon for our next fix, and it's getting more expensive and less easy to get hold of,” the environmentalist added.

Mr Kiszely shot back, accusing his opponent of “doing exactly what the children I taught do, which is worry about 200 years' time”.

“We really need to think about how people are going to eat, how people are going to heat their homes. We need to think about the short term and do anything reasonable.

“It is reasonable to frack, and it is reasonable to think about our gas and our oil. It is reasonable to do that and then think about other things in the long term,” the historian declared.

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