Fuel to keep warm, heat water and cook food should be affordable for all. Re-nationalise the energy firms. People before profits.

Sheila Wiggins, Bournemouth

Time to draw the line in the sand methinks.

Paul Burgess, Torquay

About bloody time.

Jim Robson, Corby

How can we boycott them?

Jean Fernandes, London

We’ve had enough of prices so high and having to have a house that is cold.

Lavern Wilson, Mansfield

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

Robert McArdle, Coventry

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

Jon Scott, Stockton

I was forced to debilitating depression and suicide by N-power’s false billing. My MP wrote to Voker Beckers and we have no reply a year on.

Garry Clarkson, Leeds

Privatisation has failed the people. These must be brought back under state control.

John Ellison, Leicester

Privatisation wouldn’t have been so bad if the prices hadn’t been driven up so far so fast and the services degraded. Shareholders and businessmen are all greedy.

Sandra Humphries, Southsea

I support the campaign for a nationally owned energy service.

Steve Hammersley, Leek

Today’s report on the great energy rip-off sums it up really; Switch continually or get overcharged. We are not the idiots they take us for.

Simon Larn, Redhill

Energy for the public not profit.

James Graham, Croydon

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

Alison Oxley, Pickering

Give us decently priced fuels.

Sheilagh Merrett, Windlesham

I just agree with everything you’ve said.

Richard Paunes, Ilfracombe

It is just daylight robbery, but what is there to stop them? No-one wants to say too much with the election so close so we get just the same clap-trap.

Matthew Lowrey, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

I totally agree with this petition. For years it has been increasingly difficult to heat and light my home and it isn’t getting any easier.

Darren Brown, Plymouth

Customer choice in the provision of essential utilities makes no sense. Nationalisation of these industries serves the people of the country well.

Phillipa Partington, Bedford

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.

Vanessa Bowen, Harrogate

Privatisation has just become a way for fat cats to monopolise and form cartel-like structures of our energy, trains etc. Re-nationalise.

Hannah Smith, Loughborough

You know it makes sense.

Antony Silson, Keighley

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.

Karl Johnson, Walsall

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

Alexander Atkin, Sheffield

Lives before excessive profit.

John Taylor, Chesterfield

Shame on a government which thrusts even more people into fuel poverty, while its MPs claim heating expenses for their second homes.

Glen Burrows, Bridgwater

About damn time. Let’s hope many more signatures follow.

Elvis Dutton, Bath

As an old age pensioner on a limited budget I am finding it increasingly difficult to manage.

Sheila Reilly, Coventry

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.

Anne Callaghan, Blantyre