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

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

Everyone needs to stand together and join us in rolling back the control of market forces.

How can the Government have an ‘energy policy’ when the country is being held to ransom by privately-run, often not British, energy firms?

Stop privatisation now.

Re-nationalise without delay. Privatisation has failed miserably.

All infrastructure should be in public control – power and water, transport and telecommunications.

All so called profits can be re-invested back into energy generation to meet people’s need rather than corporate greed.

Private profit should never have been put before public service.

It’s about time we stopped foreign countries buying into us and ripping out our roots.

It should be back under one ownership, like it used to be. British gas is now owned by the French.

Why employ all these different salespeople trying to give me a different price for the same product? Have one nationalised provider and keep prices low for everybody.

Our utilities should not be in private hands.

We would be able to transition to a low carbon economy in a cheaper more intelligent way if we were in control of our power generation and distribution.

This has been waiting to be done, so many thanks for starting this petition. Energy and water have to be in the hands of the people, not profit-making companies.

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

If you see Sid, tell him we messed it up.

Re-nationalise and invest profits instead of paying out to shareholders.

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

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

An efficiently run and publicly accountable energy provider must be better than a pure profit model.

Why don’t they learn?

Profits before people must stop.

Return energy to public ownership.

Investment in power is woeful. The profits are intolerable.

Let’s take utilities back. They’re not for making a few people wealthy.

The cost of energy is going to be of increasing significance. People must make themselves heard.

The fact that the privatised energy companies can threaten the UK with blackouts has made the need for nationalisation more urgent.

It’s about time the many stopped suffering, to line the pockets of the elite few.

These energy companies are like a mafia, using the consumer as a cash cow. The Government doesn’t want to do anything to stop it because half the MPs are shareholders.