We need to maintain a core of public services which create a sense of shared ownership and shared benefit. Water, energy, health, education cannot be open to profiteers.

Re-nationalise now.

I never thought I would be living in fuel poverty.

Certain commodities should be owned by the people, for the people. Energy, public transport, water.

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.

People should not have to choose heating over eating.

We may as well bring it back into public ownership as taxpayers are paying for it anyway.

Privatisation of public industries is a proven failure.

Energy to serve the sustainable needs of the many, not the short-term profit of the elite few.

To be warm is a basic human right, like a roof over your head – and education and health care.

Gas and electricity were once in public ownership and ran without problems of profit making. They should be returned to public ownership.

Utilities need to return to public ownership. We’re being ripped off.

Let’s get back to pre-Thatcher era when we the people owned and reaped the benefits of public ownership. It’s only right.

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.

Life is too short.

Honesty and firmness please.

these are necessities not luxuries, so the price needs to be reasonable

Only public ownership will deliver a service for the people, not profits for shareholders.

The sooner this happens the better.

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

Privatisation has been bad for everybody apart from the very rich. The country has gone to the dogs since things were privatised.

They should never have been split up.

I am awake. For too long now have my eyes been shut to the abuses and corruption that is an endemic rot through the very fabric of society. I say viva la revolution.

We are being ripped off, have been for ages and we need to put it right once and for all.

Re-nationalise. Control of the supply of power should be on a non-profit basis. These services should be run for citizens not for profit.

Right on.

Bring the power back to the people.

I just want a reliable, fair, publicly-owned utility, not a never-ending cycle of chasing different suppliers to get good value.

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.

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