Utilities should be in public hands and not those of profit-seeking, and often foreign, owners.

Energy prices are way too high. We are in debt already and next year will be worse. They are bleeding us dry.

At last. Well done you people and may your good work continue.

Public ownership is the only viable basis on which energy and public transport can be planned and developed in an integrated way, to combat climate change.

We need water, gas, electric and the banks – back in public ownership and get this country back on track!

I have been saying we should re-nationalise the industry for years.

Market forces have left this country with the prospect of being unable to meet our energy requirements in the next few years.

We need to get back to a point where basics such as heat and light are affordable to all. People before profit.

People die of cold every year while profiteers pocket bonuses.

Re-nationalise and rationalise the energy sector. As long as companies can make a profit exploiting natural resources they will continue to do so.

We don’t want more choice. We just want better service, of benefit to both individuals and companies, serving the economy as a whole, not just shareholders.

Heating and lighting are essential commodities in the UK. They should not be profit-based industries. They should be run by society for society.

This petition should highlight the need for more social responsibility to be shown by this selfish and one-eyed government.

How can something so vital for human life be used to make a few richer?

This government is selling UK down the river good and proper. I have to work two days to pay for one week’s energy and I’m not wallowing in centrally heated bliss.

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

I used to work in the power generation industry when it was privatised by the Tory government and we said then it would not work. How right we were.

Re-nationalise it all. It should all be owned by and run for all the people – not thieves and shareholders.

stop private companies profiting at the people’s expense when so many are in ‘fuel poverty’

More money for the rich and the poor suffer.

Utilities should always be in the hands of the people that use them. For these companies it is like writing a blank cheque.

Don’t they think we pay enough? The government gave the nurses 1% and then the power companies put their prices up by 10%.

Enough is enough with no pay rises and the energy companies just milking us. It’s time that fuel came back into public ownership.

When the Tory government privatised utilities, they did not plan it out. It is a failed experiment which has only succeeded in making the man in the street suffer.

Big Six energy companies are a definite cartel. Let’s have a proper investigation into them. Ever since the utility companies were put in private hands prices have risen.

The aim to privatise our natural emerging monopolies would only end in disaster. There is no competition on energy provision and it’s a huge waste of resources.

The attempt to create an artificial market in energy supply has demonstrably failed. It is broke so let’s fix it.

Why should someone else control our energy supply?

Lives before excessive profit.

Enough of these cartels. They do nothing for our country.