They should never have been sold off in the first place.

Too much attention to profits when we should be concentrating on improving life chances.

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

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

The current political concern about energy provision consistently ignores the obvious – that the problems are the consequence of privatisation.

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

Stop extortionate bills. Also stop extortionate estimates that neither reflect the consumption of energy or make clear that they are only estimates.

Privatisation has become a nightmare from which we would like to wake up.

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.

It’s time to take back what’s ours.

It is about time it was re-nationalised.

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

Can we trust politicians to run anything? Heaven help us.

There are some services and utilities that are too important to be in private hands, energy, health, education amongst them.

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

This isn’t just about energy prices. Look at the scandals surrounding G4S, Serco and Atos. Some things should not be privatised.

The companies were sold off cheaply and no investment has been made by them since privatisation. They now want to make the consumers pay for under-investment.

Privatised energy is not serving the consumer; only the energy companies and their shareholders. Nationalise energy now.

For profit’ is always likely to place profit before social considerations.

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

Energy sales need to be under state ownership again. It’s time to stop the daylight robbery we are subjected to by the Big Six energy companies. Enough is enough.

People not profits.

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.

Public utilities should never have been privatised. The Big Six are becoming more expensive because they are not exploiting renewables.

Full nationalisation of all the utilities is the only way to end the rip-off.

Returning power ownership and production to the British people is the only way to guarantee cost and infrastructure control. Give power back to the people.

Nationalisation without compensation. Give us back our utilities now.

Let’s bring an end to the extortion racket that is operated by the power companies.

All vital public services such as energy, water, transport, postal services, education and health have no place being run for profit by tax-dodging multinationals.

Prices are too high.