Power for the people.

Leah Etteridge, Chatham

It’s time that the people had control of these companies and paid fair prices, instead of being ripped off for huge profits and making poorer people suffer.

Lynda Rea, Ware

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

Tim McDowall, Livingston

Re-nationalise energy now.

Gary Smith, Milton Keynes

Energy companies are too greedy. Our sick, elderly and working-class can’t afford to heat their homes. Re-nationalise as soon as possible and keep us out of debt.

Glenda Ratcliffe, Tunbridge Wells

I used to work in the power generation industry when it was privatised by the Tory government and we said then it would not work. How right we were.

Peter Wooldridge, Pontefract

We’ve had enough of prices so high and having to have a house that is cold.

Lavern Wilson, Mansfield

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

Alexander Atkin, Sheffield

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’m fed up with the fat cat chairman making a mint while my bills still go up and up.

Michael Oram, Dorchester

I have been saying we should re-nationalise the industry for years.

Richard Smith, Devizes

Privatisation wouldn’t have been so bad if the prices hadn’t been driven up so far so fast and the services degraded. Shareholders and businessmen are all greedy.

Sandra Humphries, Southsea

I’m fed up chasing better deals.

John Podger, Ware

Long overdue.

Sue Basker, Derby

Lives before excessive profit.

John Taylor, Chesterfield

Nationalisation is best with no dividends to pay.

Margaret Evans, Sheffield

Rip-off utilities companies need sorting out. People before profit.

Tony Wathen, Sutton

This is pure Conservative ideology that has driven this incorrect policy, which no other country of note agrees with.

Bill Hunter, Hartlepool

I believe in a free market economy. But remove the exceptions to the rule that are the utilities and mass transport systems.

Dave James, Tavistock

Run utilities for the people and the environment

Steve Black, Southampton

The Big Six are corporate thieves.

Geoff Lange, Gosport

All utilities should be publicly owned and run for the benefit of the public not shareholders, with profits ploughed back in for everyone’s benefit.

Anne Callaghan, Blantyre

Another privatisation for the benefit of the City and funders of the Conservative Party.

Malcolm Grant, Plungar

Re–nationalise now.

Darrin Armstrong, Stevenage

I prefer the country’s energy supply in the hands of politicians and not capitalists, but the margin is very slight.

Maggie Lewis, Waltham on the Wolds

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

Geoffrey Telfer, Baildon, Shipley

Return to public ownership for the people’s benefit.

Paul Geraghty, Warrington

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

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

Stella Haynes, Market Harborough

The companies were sold off cheaply and no investment has been made by them since privatisation. They now want to make the consumers pay for under-investment.

John Bramhall, Newbury