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  • You’ve had your time fat cats.

    William Hunt, Southport
  • I’m 100% behind you on this. It’s time to favour people rather than profits. We need to re-nationalise all utilities and public transport.

    Philip Joyce, Dundee
  • I’m sat in a cold freezing room writing this with my feet in the cat box, just to keep some warmth and circulation going.

    Bob Green, Sheffield
  • Power for the people and to the people – people power. as John Lennon put it – Love and Peace.

    Pete & Nikki Perry, Stevenage
  • I agree with the sentiments on the power Bill of Rights. Power to cook and keep warm is a human right, not a means to destroy the environment and make massive profits.

    L Simpson, Stafford

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3 months ago
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5 months ago
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Bring energy into public ownership now! Please sign our friends We Own It's petition 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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Bring energy into public ownership now

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Bring energy into public ownership now Dear Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, You're allowing our energy bills to rise by nearly £700 in April, putting over 6 million hous...
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No chance now without Corbyn!

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9 months ago
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"State-owned enterprises would protect us from the crisis tearing private energy firms apart" ⚡️ Even The Times and The Sunday Times is now recommending we renationalise energy ✊ ... See MoreSee Less

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Power to the people: let us run the utilities

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The collapse of UK energy companies in the face of soaring wholesale gas prices isn’t just a headache for the consumer, the regulator and the government; it als
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Utilities should have never been privatised to begin with.

Pay wall on the Times story!

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9 months ago
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How do we avoid an expensive winter? Take energy back into public ownership! Brilliant article from our friends at We Own It ... See MoreSee Less

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How do we avoid an expensive winter? Take energy back into public ownership | Cat Hobbs

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Pressing ahead with a green new deal that reverses decades of privatisation is the key to better utilities, says Cat Hobbs, the founder of We Own It
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National bank and Super Market too.

Thick rubber soled shoes, two very sturdy lengths of insulated cable, preferably at least 10mm² copper, 4 large very heavy duty crocodile clips, insulted gloves and pliers ... sorry, it gets illegal beyond this point so you'll have to guess or I'll get another Farcebook ban 😉👍

The shadow cabinet are all millionaires who need to suck up to the msm to get elected. The msm is the mouthpiece of big business, starmer is too much of a pussy to stand up and do whats best for the country and the people

All crises are manufactured by government in collusion with the media and corporations. Switch off the news.

Or “common ownership” if you’re Keir Starmer. 🙄

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2 years ago
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Good news for community-owned renewable energy as the Local Electricity Bill progresses through the UK Parliament, thanks to a brilliant campaign from our friends at Power for People ✊

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Peter Aldous MP gave a rousing ten-minute speech in the House of Commons on our Local Electricity Bill and it was successfully reintroduced into Parliament a...
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    • 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
    • There is a clear and compelling relationship between public ownership and the ability of communities to get off dirty energy.

      Naomi Klein, writer
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Energy supply and environmental issues should not be left in the hands of private for-profit interests.

      Ralf Gauger, anti-nuclear activist
    • 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
    • For people it’s self-evident that goods on which everybody is dependent should belong to the public.

      Wiebke Hansen, Our Hamburg-Our Grid
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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