I have three kids and cannot afford to heat the house for them. It’s ridiculous that these power companies think it’s acceptable to charge the amount they do.

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.

End the corruption of the energy cartel.

Needs to be joined together to give a combined, united service.

One of the evil things the Tories did was privatisation.

Re-nationalise energy now.

It is about time it was re-nationalised.

I love this campaign. It’s time to smash the myth that privatisation is good for consumers.

Everything should be publicly owned. The government has no say in the matter.

Dear British Gas, stop ripping me off.

Power to the many in the hands of the many.

Re-nationalised power could act as a flywheel for the economy. Nationalised power could provide jobs, training, economical energy for business and private individuals.

I totally agree with this petition. For years it has been increasingly difficult to heat and light my home and it isn’t getting any easier.

Allowing vital national infrastructure like this to be monopolised by a small number of multinational corporations is just madness. It always was.

We need services run for citizens, not private profiteers.

As Midnight said: The time has come. A fact’s a fact – It belongs to them. Let’s give it back.

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

We need cheaper fuel.

We need to get back to a uniform fair price with profits going into improvements, not shareholders’ pockets.

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.

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.

I just agree with everything you’ve said.

Clearly nothing fundamental to life should be owned for profit.

Something must be done. They are all raking in extreme profits from us poorer people.

Bring back the CEGB and area boards and not the private companies, mainly from abroad, fleecing the British taxpayers.

People not profits.

This issue is far too important to be left to multinationals who put profit before people and don’t care about driving customers into poverty and despair.

Let private investment take the risk for HS2 and use the capital to re-create a national energy network.

Light and heat are basic human needs and profits should not be made from their provision.

Making profit from essential public services shouldn’t be allowed.