Great campaign. How to achieve it needs to be thought through carefully, but there has to be a better way of doing these things than we have at present. More imagination.

We need government-run, not-for-profit energy supplies.

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

Give us our utilities back now.

We need a power company that the country owns not companies run by profiteers.

Lives before excessive profit.

Let’s take back what was stolen from us.

The government could be making all the profit and then reduce taxes and improve public services.

Power for the people and to the people – people power. as John Lennon put it – Love and Peace.

Time to repair the damage the last Tory government did. I wonder if they are brave enough?

Public utilities should never be in private hands. Simple.

Our utilities should not be in private hands.

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

We are being ripped off by these companies. Let’s disband them now and take back ownership.

We need to empower communities. People do have power. If we want to achieve something, we the people can be the agent of change and do it ourselves.

Give us our power back and allow us the means to produce our own energy on a community basis without the political constraints of large corporations.

Another example of capitalism running amok with no restraints.

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

No profit should be taken from providing people with essential services.

It’s a disgrace – pure greed. We need to have energy re-nationalised.

Power we need and it’s only by sticking together that maybe something can be done. This is not what I and millions like me paid into. Please continue with your message.

Water and power services should be run by national authorities. Extra money needed for investment could be borrowed at fixed rates. This petition really needs to go big.

Public ownership can be local and democratic. It does not have to be 1940s style state bureaucracy.

There are too many companies offering lots of deals. The consumer can’t work out what is best for them. Often changing suppliers makes it worse. We need clarification.

It’s time to return to sanity. No utility should be for private profit.

Our privatised utilities are a joke. The very nature of this fragmented system has the effect of pushing up costs and the evidence of anti-competitive pricing is obvious.

All in it together, again.

Tell Sid he’s a thief.

I hate being held to ransom.

I challenge the powers that be to demonstrate so much as a single benefit to consumers from Thatcher’s privatisation of the energy utilities. Just one?