I support the dream but has anyone any idea of the cost of re-nationalising?

Rob Seed, Worcester

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.

Peter Moss, Birmingham

Basic utilities that underpin the infrastructure of a nation should never be in the hands of private, often foreign, businesses.

Tim McDowall, Livingston

We are the majority, ordinary working people reduced to living hand to mouth. This is the reality.

Andrew Rogers, Grimsby

Why do people not shift away from the Big Six? If everyone did they’d soon think again about their prices.

Sheila Taylor, Sheffield

De-rail the current gravy train. Too many bosses and not enough productive staff.

Robert Nolan, Liverpool

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

Robert Gordon, Nottingham

Public utilities should never have been privatised. The Big Six are becoming more expensive because they are not exploiting renewables.

Louis Loizou, Brighton

Give us decently priced fuels.

Sheilagh Merrett, Windlesham

Why don’t they learn?

Daniel Rolles, Dartford

No compensation for the shareholders who got the shares at a bargain price.

David Robinson, Sheffield

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

Graham Smith, Barnard Castle

No-one should be profiting out of the essentials of life; any surplus should be going back into the public purse.

Julia Hector, Stirling

Energy and energy policy should be owned and controlled by the people, not the energy companies. We need a renewable revolution, a fossil-free energy system now.

Steve Jenkins, Lancaster

I prefer the country’s energy supply in the hands of politicians and not capitalists, but the margin is very slight.

Maggie Lewis, Waltham on the Wolds

You know it makes sense.

Antony Silson, Keighley

Energy, rail and health are strategic resources that should be government controlled. We’ve already got health, so there are two to go.

Jim Roche, Leeds

Our natural resources should never have been privatised in the first place.

John Faviell Taylor, Ripon

Energy companies should be brought to task.

Rita Thirsk, Beverley

More money for the rich and the poor suffer.

Lennard James-Tall, Llanelli

Even the Victorians had the sense to understand that utilities so vital should not be private.

Hilary Lowson, Bathgate

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.

Paul Britton, Stevenage

Utilities belong to the people.

Jerry Scales, Aylesbury

There are those that can and those that cannot heat their homes. I’m for supporting and speaking up for those that can’t.

Mitch James, Bristol

Not everyone has the ability to access information on cheaper deals. The result is, as in so many other areas, that those least able to afford it end up paying most.

Valerie Bartleet, Wolverhampton

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

Martin Cummins, Edinburgh

About bloody time.

Jim Robson, Corby

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

Sue Underwood, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Making profit from essential public services shouldn’t be allowed.

Ian Johncock, Gravesend