It is obscene for anyone (including the government with VAT) and especially foreigners to make money from the sale of domestic fuel. Privatisation is essential.

Ian Grant, Sunderland

In the interest of the people re-nationalise now.

Kevin Ritter, Ebbw Vale.

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

All utilities should be publicly owned and run for the benefit of the public not shareholders, with profits ploughed back in for everyone’s benefit.

Anne Callaghan, Blantyre

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

Public utilities should never be in private hands. Simple.

Alec Rivers, Folkestone

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

Stephen Munton, Birmingham

No-one should be profiting out of the essentials of life; any surplus should be going back into the public purse.

Julia Hector, Stirling

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.

Steve Brady, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

The government could be making all the profit and then reduce taxes and improve public services.

Graham Smith, Barnard Castle

Re-nationalise energy and let’s have it work for the public once again and not the greedy shareholders and energy companies.

Kenneth Muschamp

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

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

Nationalisation is essential for all public services which, because of their nature, do not have true competition. Energy nationalisation also provides forward planning.

Philip Anderson, St Albans

I’m fed up chasing better deals.

John Podger, Ware

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

Tom Organ, Bristol

I hate being held to ransom.

Diane Hibbert, Rainworth

There are some services and utilities that are too important to be in private hands, energy, health, education amongst them.

Roger Payne, Harpenden

I’m sick to death of stupid and corrupt politicians making rubbish decisions. We must have independence.

John Lynch, Pudsey.

I couldn’t agree more with this agenda. Power to the voiceless.

Bryan White, Derby

Let us return to a fair sharing of wealth and freedom.

Peter Canham, Hitchin

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

Sheila Johnson, Rushden

Great campaign. How to achieve it needs to be thought through carefully, but there has to be a better way of doing these things than we have at present. More imagination.

John Lee, Cupar

Shame on a government which thrusts even more people into fuel poverty, while its MPs claim heating expenses for their second homes.

Glen Burrows, Bridgwater

All the fuel companies are rogues.

Maria Nelson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

It is worth trying, despite the hopelessness we all feel on these issues. See recent reports on how Iceland has resisted the power of banks and multinational corporations.

Dorothy Nelson, St Austell

It’s time to acknowledge that some industries should be run for the benefit of people, not profit.

Denis Keenan, Ossett

The energy industry is a public service and should be run as such, not for profit.

Eileen Dale, York

Energy generation should not be subject to the profit motive.

Kate Martinson, Southampton

Not everyone has the ability to access information on cheaper deals. The result is, as in so many other areas, that those least able to afford it end up paying most.

Valerie Bartleet, Wolverhampton