When people are having to decide between heating and eating what does that say about modern day Britain? The more shareholders get the more they want. Greedy people.

Anita Hambly, Northamptonshire

It’s about time. I’m sick of getting robbed every winter.

Stephen Cooper, Peterborough

The time is right to take back the industries into public hands for benefit of the public.

George Hill, Corby

Daylight robbery. Corporate assisted manslaughter.

Jeffrey Wong, Manchester

It’s time we stopped treating our neighbours as competitors, and for politicians playing the electorate off against each other. Let’s come together for the common good.

Steve Jarvis, Westbury

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

All essential services should be community assets, managed to benefit the people and not financially punish them.

Graham Towler, Northampton

It is about time it was re-nationalised.

Paul Baker, Winsford

When I was a teenager I watched Thatcher’s privatisation of UK assets and knew it was bad for citizens and then labour betrayed us. Time to return to rightful owners.

Michael Tanner, Port Talbot

Too many million-pound salaries for energy company CEOs while the elderly and others choose between heating and lighting and eating.

Juliet Chard, London

Our privatised utilities are a joke. The very nature of this fragmented system has the effect of pushing up costs and the evidence of anti-competitive pricing is obvious.

Guy Falkenau, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Give the power back to the people.

Susan Warren, St Leonards-on-Sea

Regulators are captured by their industries and this makes the commercial model act against its consumers if pursuit of profits paid to foreign owners.

Blair Breton, Portsmouth

Privatisation of Britain’s public services has been a disaster for consumers, the environment and the economy.

Jim Dignan, Sheffield

Energy should never have been privatised. We want it back.

Kevin Brown

Profits from utility, bus and rail companies should be ploughed back into infrastructure, not shareholders” pockets.

Jeremy Hoyte, Oswestry

I am tired of the energy companies making profits from the poorest in society.

Mag McNally, London

Rip-off Britain.

S Leach, Essex

I love this campaign. It’s time to smash the myth that privatisation is good for consumers.

Damien Clarkson, London

It’s just common sense to run basic essentials in the public sphere and for the public good.

Chris Speedy, Leeds

Time for re-nationalisation of the energy industry. Consumers should come first, not a bunch of faceless shareholders who put their own profit first.

John Reilly, Glasgow

As Midnight said: The time has come. A fact’s a fact – It belongs to them. Let’s give it back.

Tom Conway, Derby

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

Phillip Walton, Basildon

Return energy to public ownership.

Jennifer Gorrod, Tayport

Our broad intervention strategies are: 1. Poverty eradication. 2. Food security and nutrition. 3. Health and population dynamics. 4. Education. 5. Gender Equality.

Professor Okullu-Ayor Vincent, Kampala, Uganda

All utilities should be in the hands of the public.

William Morton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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

Ken Cooke, St Austell

Please return the gas and electricity industry to the same great institution which it used to be.

Stephen Munton, Birmingham

We are being ripped off, have been for ages and we need to put it right once and for all.

Alison Oxley, Pickering

Utilities should not be for profit but for the people.

Marylyn Edwards, Hastings