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David Cunliffe, St Helens

20th November 2013 | Your Views

Certain commodities should be owned by the people, for the people. Energy, public transport, water.

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  • It should never have happened in the first place. It just cost us all a lot of money. And for what?

    Brian Cann, Yeovil
  • Of all the public services this has the strongest link between modern day human needs and climate change. We cannot leave it to the greedy pigs to manage.

    David Lyons, Aylesbury
  • All the utility privatisations were a complete disaster for the consumer and the generating industry itself. It’s time to admit it. Get rid of these boards of directors.

    John Withill, Leeds
  • Before the sell-off there were 60million shareholders, each with one equal share and equal rights. Now the many pay the few, with no say, rights or choice. Our time has come.

    Jon Crinks, Liskeard
  • When people are having to decide between heating and eating what does that say about modern day Britain? The more shareholders get the more they want. Greedy people.

    Anita Hambly, Northamptonshire

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Keep politicians' hands off it, especially tories' and keith's !!!!

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    • Citizens [must] take back control over electricity generation so that the switch to renewables can be made without delay, while any profits generated go not to shareholders but back into supporting hungry public services.

      Naomi Klein, writer
    • For people it’s self-evident that goods on which everybody is dependent should belong to the public.

      Wiebke Hansen, Our Hamburg-Our Grid
    • An active role for government and public sector utilities is thus a far more important condition for developing renewable energy than any expensive system of public subsidies for markets or private investors.

      Professor David Hall, University of Greenwich
    • For-profit energy doesn’t work: thousands of people die every winter whilst companies make billions. We need affordable, sustainable and public and community owned energy now.

      Clare Welton, Fuel Poverty Action
    • In the screwy logic of Britain’s privatised energy sector, the public assumes the risk while the corporations get to scoop the profits.

      Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
    • At its heart privatisation in Britain was never about selling public networks but about selling the rights to tax those who are obliged to use them.

      James Meek, writer
    • We all need to reduce our energy consumption, and there will never be a true incentive for this to happen as long as big business is allowed to continue to profit from selling it to us.

      Ellie Harrison, campaign founder
    • There is a clear and compelling relationship between public ownership and the ability of communities to get off dirty energy.

      Naomi Klein, writer
    • Energy connects us to communities all over the world. We share a common climate, and to safeguard it, we need to re-common what’s ours – water, air, land, food, our time and labour and freedom of movement.

      Ewa Jasiewicz, Reclaim the Power
    • Energy supply and environmental issues should not be left in the hands of private for-profit interests.

      Ralf Gauger, anti-nuclear activist
    • Privatisation has delivered… a system in which train operators and energy firms compete not on service – but on how many tariffs they can bamboozle customers with.

      Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
    • A publicly owned energy sector would be far cheaper than the existing privatised regime, because governments can borrow at much lower interest rates. Revenues from energy would then go to the public purse rather than private profit.

      Professor Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow
    • 68% of the public want the energy companies to be publicly run. Whether we need local renewable energy or a national drive to reduce fuel poverty, it doesn’t make sense for our future to be dictated by Big Six profits

      Cat Hobbs, We Own It
    • We can’t just fight fires and win incremental gains, we need systemic change. The energy we use, its source, its ownership and its distribution needs to come under democratic control, and it needs to be clean and renewable.

      Ewa Jasiewicz, Reclaim the Power
    • Rather than letting us be held to ransom by the Big Six bullies, let’s take energy under the democratic control of the British people and make sure it works for the interests of all of us, not the money-grabbing shareholders.

      Owen Jones, writer

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