It should never have been privatised in the first place.

Lorna Bramley, Penicuik

Returning power ownership and production to the British people is the only way to guarantee cost and infrastructure control. Give power back to the people.

Tim Armstrong-Taylor, Kimpton

The current political concern about energy provision consistently ignores the obvious – that the problems are the consequence of privatisation.

Simon Archer, York

Let’s get the utilities out of the hands of these greedy bastards. They should belong to the community at large.

Andy Wilkinson, Norwich

Stop the robbery. Give us back our power.

Keith Mitchell, Dunfermline

Honesty and firmness please.

Christine Ager, Rayleigh

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

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

Juliet Chard, London

Everybody needs it, it’s essential and should not be run by firms from outside the UK who are only interested in making money.

Sheila Harrison, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Privatisation has been bad for everybody apart from the very rich. The country has gone to the dogs since things were privatised.

Ken Horn, Swadlincote

I want to own what belongs to me, and what has been stolen from me.

Stella Haynes, Market Harborough

It’s time to stop the greed.

Michaela Armstrong, Manchester

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

Kevin Sefton, Oxford

Heating and lighting are essential commodities in the UK. They should not be profit-based industries. They should be run by society for society.

Lindy Furby, Edinburgh

Big Six energy companies are a definite cartel. Let’s have a proper investigation into them. Ever since the utility companies were put in private hands prices have risen.

Mark Laidler, Doncaster

This issue is far too important to be left to multinationals who put profit before people and don’t care about driving customers into poverty and despair.

Richard Bunting, Dover

It should never have been privatised in the first place.

Hywel Morgan, London

This government is selling UK down the river good and proper. I have to work two days to pay for one week’s energy and I’m not wallowing in centrally heated bliss.

Eileen Watts, Swansea

Either re-nationalise or be run as social enterprise which reinvests any excess into better infrastructure or gives to community projects.

Martin Mills

Give us back our freedom that our parents fought for and stop ripping us off.

Susan Aldrich, Filey

It makes sense for ‘natural monopoly’ industries, providing necessities like energy, to be in public hands. Profits directly invested into insulating homes.

Rosie Leach, Machynlleth

People die of cold every year while profiteers pocket bonuses.

Peter Greenwood, Darlington

Our energy supply is fundamental to our society and should be owned by our society.

John Hoyle, Kettering

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

Malcolm Palfrey, Uckfield

There needs to be a common policy, approach and pay structure which realistically focuses on the end consumer.

Lesley Downes, Exmouth

Why do people not shift away from the Big Six? If everyone did they’d soon think again about their prices.

Sheila Taylor, Sheffield

We need a power company that the country owns not companies run by profiteers.

Mark Marriott, Nottingham

All vital public services such as energy, water, transport, postal services, education and health have no place being run for profit by tax-dodging multinationals.

Ken Brodigan

Put this resource back in the hands of the British taxpayer instead of foreign shareholders who do not care about people.

Joyce Watchorn, Chester-le-Street