Where consumer essentials are concerned, profit adds to the cost. Re-nationalisation of power is necessary.

Public services for people not profit.

The only way to stop the profiteering rip-off that is perpetrated by the private utility companies is to bring back all of them under the public wing.

If electricity supply can be run at a profit, that profit should go directly to improving the country not to shareholders. I would have thought that was obvious.

Privatisation has just become a way for fat cats to monopolise and form cartel-like structures of our energy, trains etc. Re-nationalise.

This country should by now be secure in the provision of clean, renewable, affordable energy. It is the shame of recent governments that we are not.

If shareholders’ profit was reallocated to fund development of sustainable sources of power it would vastly reduce the cost of living for many poor families.

Another area for re-nationalisation without compensation.

That’s it. We’ve had enough. You can push the people so far. Now we are taking our power back.

These industries should never have been privatised in the first place.

We have been ripped off far too long by corrupt government after corrupt government. It’s time the public voice was heard.

Get back to sanity.

I’ve worked all my life, contributing to our state systems, to find that now, aged 73 and living alone, I sit wrapped in a blanket, trying to keep warm. What life is this?

It should never have been privatised.

Everything has been said. I, like many others, am tired of corporate business profits being placed before the genuine need of the British people.

The family silver has been sold. Now most of us have to suffer the consequences, apparently. Still, the front bench millionaires are happy, along with their city friends.

The sooner this happens the better.

Life is too short.

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.

How can something so vital for human life be used to make a few richer?

About bloody time.

The attempt to create an artificial market in energy supply has demonstrably failed. It is broke so let’s fix it.

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

Right on.

Re-nationalisation is the only answer.

I would hate to be old in this country, and have to choose between food or heating.

Play fair.

Regulator as much good as a chocolate teapot.

We, the people, should benefit from the basic right of fuel supply at a cheap price, not line the pockets of the already rich while others freeze to death.

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