Everyone needs energy and at a cost that protects and enhances life, rather than simply unearned dividend payments which are used to make rich people even richer.

Our energy needs to be renewable and prices need to be fairer for all.

The fact that the privatised energy companies can threaten the UK with blackouts has made the need for nationalisation more urgent.

An efficiently run and publicly accountable energy provider must be better than a pure profit model.

We have been ripped off far too long by corrupt government after corrupt government. It’s time the public voice was heard.

Things that everyone needs to survive should not be subject to profits for a few.

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

This cartel of foreign-owned utilities should be more accountable.

Can we trust politicians to run anything? Heaven help us.

Don’t expect any help from left wing politicians.

It’s about time this issue was brought to the fore.

As Midnight said: The time has come. A fact’s a fact – It belongs to them. Let’s give it back.

Honesty and integrity. Be the first with these values.

There is no real choice with the Big Six cartel we have currently. We are sick of being ripped off. It is time for progressive change in energy provision.

I’ve worked all my life, contributing to our state systems, to find that now, aged 73 and living alone, I sit wrapped in a blanket, trying to keep warm. What life is this?

It makes sense for ‘natural monopoly’ industries, providing necessities like energy, to be in public hands. Profits directly invested into insulating homes.

I have worked all my life and receive no benefits. At 64, I am sitting at home wearing three sweaters as I type this. Fuel supplies should never have been privatised.

Putting food on the table is hard enough without worrying about the cost of cooking it.

Trusting energy companies to run their businesses for the benefit of customers is naive. Privatisation means profits first and last.

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

Power for the people and to the people – people power. as John Lennon put it – Love and Peace.

It is impossible to have a fair utility supply in the private sector – let’s take it back.

Fuel should be at cost and not be for profit.

Privatisation has seen us ripped off left and right, not least by the energy companies. This needs to be rectified.

I have photo-voltaics and have done a lot to make my home energy efficient. It would be good if the government allowed us to do the same with national energy provision.

Monopoly may be a popular game but in real life it’s no fun for the customer. It’s just a cartel in disguise.

You’ve had your time fat cats.

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

Good idea. As it would cost, why not set up a publicly owned company, cut the other’s prices and they will soon cease trading?

It’s about time we stopped foreign countries buying into us and ripping out our roots.