Utilities are too important to the public to be run at their expense for private profit.

Anthony Peter, Todmorden

Let the voices of the people be heard.

Julian Bell, West Molesey

Vote these Tory swine out of office as soon as possible.

Karen Nadin, Newark

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

Andrew Duncan, Exeter

Supporting social ideals with collective responsibility.

Mark Atkinson, Hastings

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

Richard Desjardins, Ashby de la Zouch

Utilities are basic necessities and should be run for the benefit of the public, not shareholders.

John Evans, Billericay

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

Nigel Penn, Buxton

You can see the Big Six are cheating. There never was such an obvious cartel.

Bernard Harrison, London

Clearly nothing fundamental to life should be owned for profit.

Mike Bird, Llandudno

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

Martyn Wilson, Farnborough

Services for the people, not private profit.

Terry Down, Milton Keynes

21st-century government has a duty to provide all its citizens with heat and light at a fair price. Ability to pay should make no difference to this basic human right.

Hugh Terry, Reading

Let’s get the utilities out of the hands of these greedy bastards. They should belong to the community at large.

Andy Wilkinson, Norwich

Let’s take back what was stolen from us.

Rob Hamilton, Rotherham

This country should by now be secure in the provision of clean, renewable, affordable energy. It is the shame of recent governments that we are not.

Christine De-Pulford, Frome

Fuel should be a nationalised industry, to ensure that there are certain controls in place so that everyone can stay warm.

Tracey Purnell, Edinburgh

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

Utilities should not be for profit but for the people.

Marylyn Edwards, Hastings

Common sense over greed, please.

Miranda Hartwell

Re-nationalise all the stuff that once belonged to us now.

Noel Smith, Fareham

All makes sense to me. Do it now.

Matt Haskins, London

Stop robbing your customers. How dare you raise the cost of your customers’ ordinary living expenses. You are making millions, if not billions, out of us. Shame.

Valerie Tucker, Ebbw Vale

Utility companies are cash cows for foreign equity funds. Frankly, it’s mad.

Gary Brooke, Manchester

Energy generation should not be subject to the profit motive.

Kate Martinson, Southampton

Can we trust politicians to run anything? Heaven help us.

Kevin Guyatt, Stockport

Power for the people and to the people – people power. as John Lennon put it – Love and Peace.

Pete & Nikki Perry, Stevenage

I transferred to the Co-op from British Gas and Immediately cut my energy costs by a third.

Phillip Walton, Basildon

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

Michael Henson, Pickering

Tory MPs are only concerned with making the rich richer at the expense of the poor. Equality? No.

Brian Stephens, Sunderland