I couldn’t agree more with this agenda. Power to the voiceless.

Bryan White, Derby

Why do we need to be held to ransom by the power companies? Price increases mean more shareholder dividends. Return them to public ownership.

Brian Bailey, Manchester

Essential services must be state-owned. Power for the people, by the people.

Mark Garner, Leicester

I challenge the powers that be to demonstrate so much as a single benefit to consumers from Thatcher’s privatisation of the energy utilities. Just one?

Richard Trotman, Penistone

I am fed up with being ripped off by these companies.

Terence Dare, Mansfield

No need to feed the greed. Plant the seed.

Bryan Burrow, Kendal

We need services run for citizens, not private profiteers.

Thomas Dunn, York

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

It is about time it was re-nationalised.

Paul Baker, Winsford

Bring back the CEGB and area boards and not the private companies, mainly from abroad, fleecing the British taxpayers.

Alan Newstead, Eastleigh

No argument. Power is an essential, not a profit-making commodity.

Sarah Patton, Haslemere

I want to own what belongs to me, and what has been stolen from me.

Stella Haynes, Market Harborough

Energy sales need to be under state ownership again. It’s time to stop the daylight robbery we are subjected to by the Big Six energy companies. Enough is enough.

Marie Priest, Brighton

I campaigned against electricity privatisation when I worked in the industry and served on the NEC of the Electrical Power Engineers’ Association. I am vindicated.

Ken Keable, Stoke-sub-Hamdon

This issue is far too important to be left to multinationals who put profit before people and don’t care about driving customers into poverty and despair.

Richard Bunting, Dover

Power to and for the people. Let’s move society forward.

Martin Catchpole, Ipswich

There are too many companies offering lots of deals. The consumer can’t work out what is best for them. Often changing suppliers makes it worse. We need clarification.

Jean Coates, Harrogate

Life is too short.

Sara Hall, London

Re-nationalise the energy industry. Energy is a public good and therefore should be available to all, not just those who can afford it.

Tom Willis, Portsmouth

Public ownership can be local and democratic. It does not have to be 1940s style state bureaucracy.

John Tilley, Kingston upon Thames

Power supplies are too important to leave privateers in control.

Fred Torr, Truro

When the Tory government privatised utilities, they did not plan it out. It is a failed experiment which has only succeeded in making the man in the street suffer.

Paul Pearson, Shrewsbury

The energy companies are ripping us off in order to make fat profits. This is wrong.

Colin Anderson, Dunstable

Gas and electricity were once in public ownership and ran without problems of profit making. They should be returned to public ownership.

Anthony Hook, Chesterfield

Stop the rip-off.

Howard Badder, Ilkeston

I am not against privatisation but am sick of people making so much profit from the public.

Sheila Johnson, Rushden

Returning power ownership and production to the British people is the only way to guarantee cost and infrastructure control. Give power back to the people.

Tim Armstrong-Taylor, Kimpton

It should never have been privatised in the first place.

Lorna Bramley, Penicuik

The family silver has been sold. Now most of us have to suffer the consequences, apparently. Still, the front bench millionaires are happy, along with their city friends.

Lenard Hughes, Hitchin

We need to empower communities. People do have power. If we want to achieve something, we the people can be the agent of change and do it ourselves.

Greg Hewitt, Nottingham