I’m sick of being exploited by money-grabbing companies. I hope their days are numbered.

Lorraine Martland, Milton Keynes

Charges are grossly disproportionate to costs. Stop these companies from becoming so powerful that it would become impossible to challenge them.

Marti French, Newton Abbot

Profits before people must stop.

Daniel Holt, Bournemouth

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

Whatever excuses they come up with, its a cartel and that’s illegal.

Susan Shaw, Barnsley

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

Bernadette Reid, Harrogate

Power to the little men and women.

Stuart Holden, Nottingham

This is a strong possibility if we all stick together.

Ollie Abdullah, Essex

Re-nationalise and rationalise the energy sector. As long as companies can make a profit exploiting natural resources they will continue to do so.

Julia Callow, Bournemouth

Utilities should be in public hands and not those of profit-seeking, and often foreign, owners.

Geoffrey Telfer, Baildon, Shipley

The increases over the last few years show that this government is only interested in big business as usual. Disgraceful.

William Ryan, Manchester

Time to draw the line in the sand methinks.

Paul Burgess, Torquay

All profit to be re-invested in the service.

Brian Billingham, Leeds

Everybody needs it, it’s essential and should not be run by firms from outside the UK who are only interested in making money.

Sheila Harrison, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

It’s a disgrace – pure greed. We need to have energy re-nationalised.

Vi Dunning, Thornton Cleveleys

With this bunch of bully-boys in power, the campaign for re-nationalisation based on cold hard numbers, highlighting how we’ve lost out is needed more than ever.

Peter Burns, Newport

Energy should never have been privatised. We want it back.

Kevin Brown

Re-nationalisation is the only rational path to follow. Our power is going to capitalists abroad.

Rose Kay, Berwick-on-Tweed

Free market capitalism is not the best way for everything and is certainly not the optimal philosophy for providing essential services to a country’s population.

Cristian Gurran, Rotherham

Privatisation of power is a broken concept. Re-nationalisation would literally bring power back to the people.

Anthony Phillips, Leeds

End this farce. Too long the Big Six have worked together to increase prices.

Ryan Mercer, London

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

Gill Page, Richmond

We need a power company that the country owns not companies run by profiteers.

Mark Marriott, Nottingham

Time to get rid of the energy racketeers.

Karen Johnson, Princes Risborough

The reason we are annually held to ransom is to feed the grotesque profits of organisations that were taken away from us. They were ours, give them back.

Sara Smith-Petersen, Kettering

The time is right to have our power back.

John Scholes, Maryburgh

People who have a physical disability or learning disability and the elderly are most at risk with all the high charges.

Dorcas Munday, Wellingborough

The power companies’ directors and shareholders are just vultures feasting on the misery of people with no choice.

Richard Walthew, Duns

The essential infrastructure of a country shouldn’t be in the hands of money-making private enterprises. They should be run for the good of the people of the country.

Paul Britton, Stevenage

Privatization of energy resources and transport is a disgrace.

Lia Martinucci, Richmond, North Yorkshire