Nationalise Bulb (don’t bail it out)
13th August 2022 | News / Petition
Private energy company Bulb collapsed in November 2021 and the government is planning on spending £2.2 billion to prop it up – the biggest state bailout since the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008.
Apparently the government is “desperate to do a deal” to get Bulb back in the private sector – right now it’s considering giving a further £1 billion to private company Octopus to take over the company.
This makes no sense. Other countries like France, Germany, Italy and the US all have public suppliers of energy.
The government could take Bulb’s 1.7 million customers as the basis of a new publicly owned energy supply company.
Nationalisation vs privatisation: the public view
A YouGov Poll published today, shows majority support for taking vast swathes of our key public services and infrastructure back into public ownership.
53% want to see Energy Companies returned to the public sector compared to 31% who want them to remain in the Private Sector (and 16% Don’t Know).
Hope will Prevail
24th June 2016 | News
We did not support either of the EU campaigns, but we are determined to remain optimistic given the result. We are now calling for a post-EU http://laparkan.com/buy-tadalafil/ push for public ownership. Hope will prevail! Spread the word about the Power For The People and Bring Back British Rail campaigns.
Report: Public Ownership of the UK Energy System
14th April 2016 | Evidence / News
Here is some brilliant new evidence to back up what we have been saying for the last three years!
A new report launched today by our friends at We Own It and written by David Hall, Professor at the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich, shows that publicly owned energy would pay for itself in just ten years.
Implementing the plan, which combines national, regional and local public ownership of our energy generation, transmission, distribution and supply, would allow for savings of £3.2billion per year NYGoodHealth made possible by the lower cost of borrowing in the public sector, and an end to profiteering by shareholders.
Green MP Caroline Lucas says: “This report backs up what the majority of British people already think: a public energy system would be better for everyone. A publicly owned system would benefit from the low cost of borrowing, and – with no shareholders to pay – bills could be kept lower, permanently.”
Get clued up! Download the Report here >
Power For The People supports Stop TTIP
14th April 2015 | News / Petition
Power For The People together with our ‘sister campaign’ Bring Back British Rail, is supporting the self-organised European Citizens’ Initiative against the controversial Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP).
TTIP threatens to make our aims of returning our essential services and infrastructure to public ownership far more difficult, by giving big corporations yet more power to sue the governments who finally wise-up to the injustices of privatisation and decide to take their assets back from the profiteers for the benefit of their citizens. Please sign the petition below before the deadline on 6 October 2015.
Public Ownership of Scotland’s Energy
20th September 2014 | News / Petition
Following the Referendum on Scottish Independence, Power For the People and its sister organisation Bring Back British Rail are launching two new campaigns for the Public Ownership of Scotland’s essential services and infrastructure with 38 Degrees:
Public Ownership of Scotland’s Energy
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/publicenergyscotland
Public Ownership of Scotland’s Railway
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/publicrailwayscotland
We intend to keep the pressure up and utilise the ‘new powers’ promised by the UK Government, to demand the radical changes to Scotland’s energy policy necessary to combat fuel poverty and meet the country’s ambitious 2050 climate change targets. In the run up to the next http://laparkan.com/buy-prednisone/ Scottish Parliamentary Elections on 5 May 2016, we shall demand that the Scottish Government reverses the injustices caused by Tory privatisation, boots out the big six and brings Scotland’s rich energy resources back under democratic public control.
Public Ownership in Scotland could be the ‘easy win’, which would pave the way for the other parts of the UK to follow suit.
The Public Ownership of Scotland’s Energy campaign is supported by:
To add your organisation to this list, please email us at the address below.
People’s Climate March
15th September 2014 | Demonstration / News
People’s Climate March London
Sunday 21 September 2014
Assemble 12:30
Temple Place
Join millions of people all over the world on the People’s Climate March this Sunday 21 September to demand that our world leaders at the UN Climate Summit take decisive action to tackle climate change.
Step one should be to ensure that all our carbon-intensive essential services and industries – such as our energy production and supply – are under democratic public control and not being milked by massive multi-national corporations to maximise private profit with no care for the consequences. Join us and shout Power For The People now!
Reclaim the Power
4th August 2014 | Demonstration / News
Energy justice campaigners from all around the UK are congregating near Blackpool next week for our friends No Dash for Gas’s Reclaim the Power action camp aimed at stopping fracking and building a democratic and clean energy system that works for us. Join us!
Reclaim the Power
14 August – 20 August 2014
Blackpool
Travel information >
Camp programme >
Fundraising Appeal for May 2015
7th May 2014 | News
With the next General Election just one year away, Power For The People is launching a fundraising appeal to help us amass support for the public ownership of our energy network and increase pressure on our politicians to listen to us in the run up to 7 May 2015.
Can you chip in a small http://www.health-canada-pharmacy.com donation to help us reach our £5,000 goal?
Please follow the link to donate today!
www.powerforthepeople.org/donate/may2015
Bin British Gas
3rd May 2014 | Demonstration / News
This Thursday 12 May, our friends at Fuel Poverty Action are coordinating a protest outside the British Gas Annual General Meeting in central London calling for the public http://www.cheapambienpriceonline.com ownership of our energy network. Please join us in shouting Bin British Gas!
Thursday 12 May, 1pm
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Broad Sanctuary
Westminster
London
SW1P 3EE
British Gas’ parent company, Centrica, announced that its profits TRIPLED in the last year. Meanwhile millions of households across the UK can't afford to heat their homes. Sound fair? 🤔 ... See MoreSee Less
British Gas boss: Reject your £1.6 million bonus!
you.38degrees.org.uk
Millions of families are struggling to keep their homes warm this winter. Yet today, Centrica, British Gas’ parent company, announced that its profits TRIPLED in the last year. If that wasn’t bad ...Comment on Facebook
reject it? it shouldn't be offered in the first place.
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Sign the petition: fix our broken energy system!
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Our energy system is broken. Instead of delivering warmth to our homes, it delivers huge profits to fossil fuel giants – and families are left in the cold. We need a serious plan to fix the energy m...Comment on Facebook
don't hold your breath mike.
When is it going to be widely known that our energy bills are three times higher than the average in Europe. And when will indifferent Tories admit it.
Don't miss this UK Parliament debate on renationalising our energy production and supply ✊⚡️💡 The new petition is available to sign here 👇 Let's keep the pressure up!
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Do not depend on Labour to achieve this. Keir Starmer is actually a Conservative.
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Here’s why Great British Energy in public ownership is a WIN for our movement! (Even if it’s not full nationalisation)
weownit.org.uk
A publicly owned energy generation company is the way forward.Comment on Facebook
I've said it before. You don't need to compensate Nationalisation, if you create a company to compete with them. Just as the Labour Party should have done when it bailed out the banks. They could have turned them into State Banks, and undercut the others.
Localise energy you also localise power
Are the New Tesla Towers Up and Running yet ?
This appears a vastly over optimistic piece without knowing more details. Starmer claimed it would be a publicly owned company, but just creating a company means very little. We need to know how investment there will be in this company, or more to the point, how much energy it's planned to generate. Starmer being Starmer means he'll say _anything_ to get elected. It's not beyond him to create the company, but then not fund it, so it's not producing enough energy to actually make a difference. What's more, if it's "publicly owned" but paid for by PFI, or private borrowing, it still leaves the company beholden to the private sector. We need to know how it's going to be funded, how much money it will have, and what the plans are for how much energy it's going to produce... ... otherwise it could all be hot air. And Starmer is no stranger to that. And without wanting to pass the buck, because We Own It already do so much, it's down to people like yourselves to be asking these questions, because The Labour Party won't answer me if I ask.
Except that they haven't actually done it, [not being in power], but only "pledged" to do so !! And we all know from two and a half years' sad experience, [and the Starmenfuhrer's own mouth], what the lying toe-rag's pledges are worth !!!!
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It's a scam.
Our #EnergyBills will be double what we paid last winter. And Liz Truss just picked our pockets to boost energy companies profits by another £130 billion.
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It's time for a mass uprising.