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

Colin Tarrant, Derby

Services for the people, not private profit.

Terry Down, Milton Keynes

Lives before excessive profit.

John Taylor, Chesterfield

Everything has been said. I, like many others, am tired of corporate business profits being placed before the genuine need of the British people.

Stella Davies, Wrexham

Energy profits should be invested in energy re-vitalisation, not to line the pockets of company bosses and shareholders.

Stephen Swanton, Leeds

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

Tim McDowall, Livingston

We only demand back what was once ours.

Jim Granter, Alsager

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

Mike Higgins, Minsterley

The time is right to have our power back.

John Scholes, Maryburgh

It’s time we stopped treating our neighbours as competitors, and for politicians playing the electorate off against each other. Let’s come together for the common good.

Steve Jarvis, Westbury

This needs to happen. The greedy capitalists have taken the rug from under us and left fellow members of our nation with the difficult choice of heating or eating.

Chris Yates, Northwich

Privatisation drives up prices and drives down quality.

Jennie Cummings-Knight, Cromer

End this disastrous privatisation.

John Howe, Rotherham

Our energy infrastructure is a vital national asset. It is too important to be left in private hands and run for private profit.

Martin Findell, Nottingham

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

Lorraine Martland, Milton Keynes

Re-nationalisation of all utilities.

Dennis Wood, Clacton-on-Sea

People should not have to choose heating over eating.

Jimmy Murray, London

I despair when we have sold off our national assets, from rail to energy to water to money.

Alistair Ligertwood, Liverpool

The family silver has been sold. Now most of us have to suffer the consequences, apparently. Still, the front bench millionaires are happy, along with their city friends.

Lenard Hughes, Hitchin

We need services run for citizens, not private profiteers.

Thomas Dunn, York

In the interest of the people re-nationalise now.

Kevin Ritter, Ebbw Vale.

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

Bernadette Reid, Harrogate

Nothing good ever came from privatisation.

Rebecca Lush Blum, Southampton

Daylight robbery. Corporate assisted manslaughter.

Jeffrey Wong, Manchester

It’s time to end the experiment! Energy supply is too important to be left in the hands of the private sector!

Peter Whitehead, Gilberdyke, East Yorkshire

One of the best things for UK people and UK finance would be the re-nationalisation of power and railways.

Lesley Burt, Christchurch

It’s about time the many stopped suffering, to line the pockets of the elite few.

Dean Forsyth, Southend

It should never have been privatised in the first place.

Hywel Morgan, London

It is about time it was re-nationalised.

Paul Baker, Winsford

Profit is not a dirty word – all businesses need it to survive, but what we have with the energy companies is pure unvarnished greed.

David John Briggs, Southend-on-Sea