All the main utilities should be under public ownership. Rich individuals should not be able to profit from them.

Joyce McCarthy, Bradford

Let’s start putting people before profit.

Philippe Lechat, Chatham

Keep power prices down and cut down on dividends to shareholders.

Dorothy Joyce Cox, Poole

Let’s get back to how it was – a more fair society.

Hazel Willmer, Barnsley

The ridiculous greed of all energy companies and their suppliers must stop. We must also find ways of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels without it costing the earth.

H Moon, Brighton

Energy is clearly not safe in private hands.

Caroline Charles, London

I would like to put my name to this petition and I actively support the campaign to bring back our energy network into public ownership.

Oliver Steward, Norwich

All energy should be state owned.

Kenneth Miller, Leeds

Maggie Sold off the taxpayers’ property without their permission, leading to the chaos and profiteering, substandard maintenance and horrendous price Increases.

John Price, Oakham

When the Tory government privatised utilities, they did not plan it out. It is a failed experiment which has only succeeded in making the man in the street suffer.

Paul Pearson, Shrewsbury

Re-nationalise, run the power supplies as a service, not a way of making a few richer while the majority struggle to pay the bills. Any profit made is kept in the country.

David Treasurer, Canterbury

Enough is enough. Over 60% of the population didn’t vote for privatisation, so why should we have to be ripped off like this?

Alan Gale, Rochdale

Nothing good ever came from privatisation.

Rebecca Lush Blum, Southampton

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

Nationalisation without compensation. Give us back our utilities now.

John Wilson, Glasgow

Something must be done. They are all raking in extreme profits from us poorer people.

Nigel Rogers, Chester

Let’s get rid of the shareholders.

Joan Harrison, St Albans

Regulator as much good as a chocolate teapot.

Steven Hearne, Doncaster

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

Renationalise the energy utilities please.

Gaby Weiner, Lewes East Sussex

Why don’t they learn?

Daniel Rolles, Dartford

Give us our utilities back now.

Col Farrell, Liverpool

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

Brian Stephens, Sunderland

Another privatisation for the benefit of the City and funders of the Conservative Party.

Malcolm Grant, Plungar

Another example of capitalism running amok with no restraints.

Mike Sargent, Dover

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

Get it back in our hands, with proper, democratically-consulted safeguards against bad management this time.

Christine & Vic Taylor, Keyworth

It’s time to return to sanity. No utility should be for private profit.

Ruth Scriven, Marlborough

Energy generation should not be subject to the profit motive.

Kate Martinson, Southampton