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Rebecca Lush Blum, Southampton

11th November 2013 | Your Views

Nothing good ever came from privatisation.

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  • Where is the competition? Even Cameron called it a cartel.

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  • All energy companies should be re-nationalised and green energy supported.

    Allen Lane, Brighton

  • Return our gas and electricity to public ownership now.

    Keith Davies, Pentre

  • The bullies at the Big Six must be stood up to.

    Gavin Sibthorpe, London

  • It is just daylight robbery, but what is there to stop them? No-one wants to say too much with the election so close so we get just the same clap-trap.

    Matthew Lowrey, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Privatisation has delivered… a system in which train operators and energy firms compete not on service โ€“ 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

    • 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

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

      Ralf Gauger, anti-nuclear activist

    • 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-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

    • 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

    • 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 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

    • 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

    • In the screwy logic of Britainโ€™s privatised energy sector, the public assumes the risk while the corporations get to scoop the profits.

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