Utility companies are cash cows for foreign equity funds. Frankly, it’s mad.

Gary Brooke, Manchester

Either re-nationalise or be run as social enterprise which reinvests any excess into better infrastructure or gives to community projects.

Martin Mills

Honesty and firmness please.

Christine Ager, Rayleigh

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

The huge growth in profit taken by the Big Six over the last four years – from

Jane Lowry, Falmouth

The bullies at the Big Six must be stood up to.

Gavin Sibthorpe, London

Power to and for the people. Let’s move society forward.

Martin Catchpole, Ipswich

Renationalise the energy utilities please.

Gaby Weiner, Lewes East Sussex

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.

Hugh Terry, Reading

What’s the point of disrupting a well run system for the sake of political ideology? Save the money for the councils that are having to make budget cuts.

Philip Cheung, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

All utilities should be publicly owned and run for the benefit of the public not shareholders, with profits ploughed back in for everyone’s benefit.

Anne Callaghan, Blantyre

Privatisation of public industries is a proven failure.

John Dunkley, Sheffield

Power to the people to eradicate poverty caused by big power companies and big businesses making huge profits of millions of pounds by selling energy at high prices.

Peter Burns, Holyhead

This and every other essential utility should be returned to public ownership.

G E, Beckenham

It is time we all said enough is enough. Thank you for organising this petition.

Robert Gordon, Nottingham

Energy is now an essential for normal living, and thus shouldn’t be run for private profits.

Tony Douglas, Lanark

When a company is nationalised, any profits can come back to the people.

Penny Lomas, Leeds

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

Shan Oakes, Beverley

With this bunch of bully-boys in power, the campaign for re-nationalisation based on cold hard numbers, highlighting how we’ve lost out is needed more than ever.

Peter Burns, Newport

Let’s get back to how it was – a more fair society.

Hazel Willmer, Barnsley

Utilities belong to the people.

Jerry Scales, Aylesbury

Energy for the public not profit.

James Graham, Croydon

Prices are too high.

John Taylor, Guisborough

These industries should never have been privatised in the first place.

Douglas Linaker, Penzance

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

Robert Webster, Cambridge

There needs to be a common policy, approach and pay structure which realistically focuses on the end consumer.

Lesley Downes, Exmouth

I support the campaign for a nationally owned energy service.

Steve Hammersley, Leek

Our broad intervention strategies are: 1. Poverty eradication. 2. Food security and nutrition. 3. Health and population dynamics. 4. Education. 5. Gender Equality.

Professor Okullu-Ayor Vincent, Kampala, Uganda

Re-nationalise all the stuff that once belonged to us now.

Noel Smith, Fareham

I never thought I would be living in fuel poverty.

Jenny Dimond, Ware