Essential services must be state-owned. Power for the people, by the people.

Socialism was defeated from 1979 onwards. I was born in 1936 and it is time to restore it because of present day poverty and inequality.

these are necessities not luxuries, so the price needs to be reasonable

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

Why do we need to be held to ransom by the power companies? Price increases mean more shareholder dividends. Return them to public ownership.

I’m fed up with being milked to pay for energy bosses’ bonuses. After being caught price fixing too. It’s about time the profits were re-invested in the system.

Bring back the CEGB. They would have solved the reduction of CO2 problem, got nuclear generation, got safe generation margins etc.

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

More money for the rich and the poor suffer.

The huge growth in profit taken by the Big Six over the last four years – from

Return energy to public ownership.

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

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.

With this bunch of bully-boys in power, the campaign for re-nationalisation based on cold hard numbers, highlighting how we’ve lost out is needed more than ever.

It’s about time this issue was brought to the fore.

All have the right to have access to essentials for life, which includes an energy supply, regardless of ability to pay.

It’s time to stop rich friends of the government ripping us off. Rail, water, gas, electricity and now the mail too.

Honesty and firmness please.

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

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

It should not have been sold off in the first place. It only lined the pockets of Tories’ friends and masters.

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.

Good idea. As it would cost, why not set up a publicly owned company, cut the other’s prices and they will soon cease trading?

Energy is too important to be a wealth provider for shareholders of private companies.

The energy rip-off needs to end now.

Give the people their utilities back. They’re too important for the privateers to own.

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.

I support the campaign for a nationally owned energy service.

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

It’s high time we stood together for the good of the majority.