People dying due to profiteering and government indifference is nothing short of corporate manslaughter.

Malcolm Palfrey, Uckfield

This is very important – do not ignore the voices of your people.

Simon Roberts, London

Give back something I used to own, which was sold without my permission.

Ken Cooke, St Austell

Give the power back to the people.

Susan Warren, St Leonards-on-Sea

In the interest of the people re-nationalise now.

Kevin Ritter, Ebbw Vale.

I’m sick of being robbed.

Arthur Griffiths, Skelmersdale

The Big Six are corporate thieves.

Geoff Lange, Gosport

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

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

It should never have been sold off in the first place.

Michael Rutland, Stockton-on-Tees

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

Karen Nadin, Newark

Power we need and it’s only by sticking together that maybe something can be done. This is not what I and millions like me paid into. Please continue with your message.

Elaine Stonelake, Altrincham

I hate being held to ransom.

Diane Hibbert, Rainworth

It’s crazy. We have the skills and the unemployed so we should use them.

Jennifer Andrew, Oxford

Money from our electricity bills should be for infrastructure replacement and not for lining bosses’ and shareholders’ pockets. Re-nationalise as soon as possible.

Dennis Pocock, Woking

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

Water and power services should be run by national authorities. Extra money needed for investment could be borrowed at fixed rates. This petition really needs to go big.

Ian Kane, Portsmouth

This petition should highlight the need for more social responsibility to be shown by this selfish and one-eyed government.

Roger Jackson, York

All profit to be re-invested in the service.

Brian Billingham, Leeds

Act now. We have to stick together to stop the fat cats getting fatter.

Margaret Kearns, Ashton-under-Lyne

Our energy infrastructure is a vital national asset. It is too important to be left in private hands and run for private profit.

Martin Findell, Nottingham

Why do we need the money-grabbing middle men? Give us back our energy industry and plough the profits back into the infrastructure, not into the pockets of shareholders.

Jim Peters, Denham

Power is too important to be left to private business.

Toby Ray, London

Clearly nothing fundamental to life should be owned for profit.

Mike Bird, Llandudno

Heating and hot water should not be for commercial gain.

Pam Robinson, London

End the corruption of the energy cartel.

David Berriman, St Leonards on Sea

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

Richard Desjardins, Ashby de la Zouch

I am not against privatisation but am sick of people making so much profit from the public.

Sheila Johnson, Rushden

I’m fed up with profits going to companies. They should go back into our hands.

Andy Walker, Brighton

Excellent cause. Well done. When the government washes its hands of its responsibility to the people, the people must take action to protect themselves.

Graham Coulson, Cambridge