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

You know it makes sense.

Antony Silson, Keighley

I’m sick of these rip-off companies fleecing us.

Eddie Griffin, Borehamwood

This needs to happen. The greedy capitalists have taken the rug from under us and left fellow members of our nation with the difficult choice of heating or eating.

Chris Yates, Northwich

I just agree with everything you’ve said.

Richard Paunes, Ilfracombe

The recent price increases by the major energy companies prey on the most vulnerable members of society solely to boost already record high profits.

Gerald Halligan, Edinburgh

The bullies at the Big Six must be stood up to.

Gavin Sibthorpe, London

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

Mag McNally, London

I’m fed up chasing better deals.

John Podger, Ware

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

Christine & Vic Taylor, Keyworth

It’s about time we stopped foreign countries buying into us and ripping out our roots.

Elaine Whybrow, Dartford

I’m tired of being overcharged and paying more for ever decreasing benefit. Nationalise now.

Julia Clarke, Croydon

I want public utilities in state hands, not those of corporations.

Dennis Pearce, Hampton

I despair when we have sold off our national assets, from rail to energy to water to money.

Alistair Ligertwood, Liverpool

Basic needs should not be in the hands of big business.

Brendan Dolan, Manchester

Stop the rip-off.

Howard Badder, Ilkeston

Public utilities should be in public hands. It’s as simple as that.

Nick Jordan, Rickmansworth

Our natural resources should never have been privatised in the first place.

John Faviell Taylor, Ripon

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

Tom Conway, Derby

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

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

Brian Stephens, Sunderland

About damn time. Let’s hope many more signatures follow.

Elvis Dutton, Bath

It’s about time these companies were punished. They’re absolutely disgusting, the lot of them.

Garry Boyle, Brentwood

All the utility privatisations were a complete disaster for the consumer and the generating industry itself. It’s time to admit it. Get rid of these boards of directors.

John Withill, Leeds

Re-nationalise. Control of the supply of power should be on a non-profit basis. These services should be run for citizens not for profit.

Vanessa Bowen, Harrogate

Everyone who remembers the privatisation of utilities foresaw this happening. Re-nationalise now without compensation.

Tom Organ, Bristol

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

David Robinson, Sheffield

Basic utilities that underpin the infrastructure of a nation should never be in the hands of private, often foreign, businesses.

Tim McDowall, Livingston

We need government-run, not-for-profit energy supplies.

Michaela Tiernan, Peterlee

Whatever excuses they come up with, its a cartel and that’s illegal.

Susan Shaw, Barnsley