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

If we are all in this together then why aren’t the profits to shareholders falling?

Current events. Enough said.

Private profit should never have been put before public service.

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

Energy is too important to be a wealth provider for shareholders of private companies.

I’ve made the first step by ditching the big companies. I’ve moved my account to Co-operative energy, the first step to bring excessive profits back to members.

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.

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?

It’s plain common sense.

Profiteering based on the sale of a commodity which is essential to life and basic human comfort is outrageous. Nationalisation would end this.

Profiteering on this scale should be illegal. It’s the unacceptable face of capitalism and must be stopped.

Essential services should be nationalised services. If they want businesses to make money from private investors, they should issue bonds in the business.

We need to re-think how our power is produced, by developing local power production rather than the out-dated transportation of power across the country by pylons.

Let’s unite against these fat cats and make them reduce their profits.

About bloody time.

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

Vote these Tory swine out of office as soon as possible.

This isn’t just about energy prices. Look at the scandals surrounding G4S, Serco and Atos. Some things should not be privatised.

21st-century government has a duty to provide all its citizens with heat and light at a fair price. Ability to pay should make no difference to this basic human right.

Privatisation has become a nightmare from which we would like to wake up.

Why has it taken so long to get started? The Tories are always fast enough pushing their privatisation schemes through parliament without asking for anyone’s opinions.

I fully support the re-nationalisation of our energy.

We are the majority, ordinary working people reduced to living hand to mouth. This is the reality.

This has been waiting to be done, so many thanks for starting this petition. Energy and water have to be in the hands of the people, not profit-making companies.

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

We only demand back what was once ours.

I’m sick of being robbed.

I never thought I would be living in fuel poverty.

Dear British Gas, stop ripping me off.