Renationalise the energy utilities please.

Gaby Weiner, Lewes East Sussex

They should belong to the people.

Anthony Curtis, Scarborough

Re-nationalise it all. It should all be owned by and run for all the people – not thieves and shareholders.

Simon Williams, Sutton

Energy to serve the sustainable needs of the many, not the short-term profit of the elite few.

Andrew Duncan, Exeter

Basic utilities that underpin the infrastructure of a nation should never be in the hands of private, often foreign, businesses.

Tim McDowall, Livingston

All public utilities should be in public (not private) hands.

Stephen Foster, Leicester

Profits before people must stop.

Daniel Holt, Bournemouth

Tory MPs are only concerned with making the rich richer at the expense of the poor. Equality? No.

Brian Stephens, Sunderland

Maggie Sold off the taxpayers’ property without their permission, leading to the chaos and profiteering, substandard maintenance and horrendous price Increases.

John Price, Oakham

Crooks every one of them.

Glen Gibb, Dunbar

Let’s take utilities back. They’re not for making a few people wealthy.

Sue Rowies, St Ives

How long before the market can stand no more?

Colin Todd, Redcar

Not everyone has the ability to access information on cheaper deals. The result is, as in so many other areas, that those least able to afford it end up paying most.

Valerie Bartleet, Wolverhampton

Water and power services should be run by national authorities. Extra money needed for investment could be borrowed at fixed rates. This petition really needs to go big.

Ian Kane, Portsmouth

Re-nationalise all energy.

Jennifer Gray, Bristol

One of the evil things the Tories did was privatisation.

Martin Webb, Goole

Sounds good to me.

Jane Taylor, Doncaster

Energy is clearly not safe in private hands.

Caroline Charles, London

Nationalisation is best with no dividends to pay.

Margaret Evans, Sheffield

Big Six energy companies are a definite cartel. Let’s have a proper investigation into them. Ever since the utility companies were put in private hands prices have risen.

Mark Laidler, Doncaster

these are necessities not luxuries, so the price needs to be reasonable

Asiya Ali, Slough

The attempt to create an artificial market in energy supply has demonstrably failed. It is broke so let’s fix it.

Rik Alewijnse, Feering

Too much attention to profits when we should be concentrating on improving life chances.

Ann Scott, Birmingham

Time to repair the damage the last Tory government did. I wonder if they are brave enough?

Jon Scott, Stockton

Power to the many in the hands of the many.

Bernie Lally, Northampton

Why don’t they learn?

Daniel Rolles, Dartford

The sooner this happens the better.

Mark Jordan, Ripley, Surrey

All makes sense to me. Do it now.

Matt Haskins, London

All the main utilities should be under public ownership. Rich individuals should not be able to profit from them.

Joyce McCarthy, Bradford

Privatisation drives up prices and drives down quality.

Jennie Cummings-Knight, Cromer