The shameless boss of energy giant SSE is set to walk away with £15million as a golden goodbye, after his company was fined £4.5million for ripping off customers.

I’m sick of being robbed.

Utilities (power and water etc.) should be owned by the taxpayers who, after all, are subsidising private companies.

A publicly owned energy provider will show up the lie that competition has been good for consumers, just as East Coast has on the railways.

Our natural resources should never have been privatised in the first place.

This is a strong possibility if we all stick together.

Give back something I used to own, which was sold without my permission.

It should never have happened in the first place. It just cost us all a lot of money. And for what?

This will inevitably happen. In the future there will be wars over energy and we will all no doubt suffer.

All the utility privatisations were a complete disaster for the consumer and the generating industry itself. It’s time to admit it. Get rid of these boards of directors.

All so called profits can be re-invested back into energy generation to meet people’s need rather than corporate greed.

Only public ownership will deliver a service for the people, not profits for shareholders.

Energy is crucial to a country and its population, so why let foreign companies make a profit out of it and aid their economies to compete unfairly with the UK?

Nationalisation is essential for all public services which, because of their nature, do not have true competition. Energy nationalisation also provides forward planning.

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

They should never have been split up.

Services for the people, not private profit.

I too support the re-nationalisation of energy supply in the UK.

Something as essential as power generation should not be in the hands of people whose only interest is in short term shareholder gain.

Privatisation has not worked.

Privatisation has just become a way for fat cats to monopolise and form cartel-like structures of our energy, trains etc. Re-nationalise.

Basic needs should not be in the hands of big business.

Maggie Sold off the taxpayers’ property without their permission, leading to the chaos and profiteering, substandard maintenance and horrendous price Increases.

Please take note of this petition.

We need water, gas, electric and the banks – back in public ownership and get this country back on track!

Our energy needs to be renewable and prices need to be fairer for all.

It’s time to stop rich friends of the government ripping us off. Rail, water, gas, electricity and now the mail too.

Act now. We have to stick together to stop the fat cats getting fatter.

Another example of capitalism running amok with no restraints.

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