Having just six energy companies, the market place is madness and allowing them to make huge profits from working-class families should not be allowed.

Frederick Johnson, Barry

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

Malcolm Duckworth, Preston

I really wish you good luck in this campaign, because everything in the UK is being privatised.

Matthew Saunders, Barnet

I’d rather subsidise my fellow citizens than a bunch of fat cats.

John Hann, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Power to the many in the hands of the many.

Bernie Lally, Northampton

Of all the public services this has the strongest link between modern day human needs and climate change. We cannot leave it to the greedy pigs to manage.

David Lyons, Aylesbury

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

William Ryan, Manchester

Don’t expect any help from left wing politicians.

Roy Koerner, Wylam

This government is selling UK down the river good and proper. I have to work two days to pay for one week’s energy and I’m not wallowing in centrally heated bliss.

Eileen Watts, Swansea

Re-nationalisation of all utilities.

Dennis Wood, Clacton-on-Sea

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

Mark Marriott, Nottingham

We are being ripped off, have been for ages and we need to put it right once and for all.

Alison Oxley, Pickering

Privatisation equals prices up, service down, profits to investment bankers.

Pete Heskett, London

This has ripped off the ordinary people long enough.

Pauline Hacker, Preston

The Big Six are corporate thieves.

Geoff Lange, Gosport

Bring the power back to the people.

Alex Burnell, Ipswich

Rip-off Britain.

S Leach, Essex

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

Geoffrey Telfer, Baildon, Shipley

Governments have failed to correct this. We must.

Shirley Tunley, Aberystwyth

No-one should be profiting out of the essentials of life; any surplus should be going back into the public purse.

Julia Hector, Stirling

The cost of energy is going to be of increasing significance. People must make themselves heard.

John Butler, Strabane

obviously privatisation has been a disaster. All the evidence is there. Thatcher was wrong. We need a proper left wing spokesman to highlight this.

Michael Lawson, Borehamwood

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

Richard Smith, Devizes

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

Alexander Atkin, Sheffield

It’s plain common sense.

Roger Dickings, Peterborough

Big business has had too much power for too long. Its time to return it back to the people.

Dennis Exley, Barnsley

Give us back our power.

Jes Fernie, Colchester

All the main utilities should be under public ownership. Rich individuals should not be able to profit from them.

Joyce McCarthy, Bradford

It’s time for action. People need heat and light to survive.

Paul Clarke, Glasgow