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Skip to main content. Power For The People. 47; Make a Donation. Amount ( £ ). Power For The People is run by a small network of volunteers. We rely entirely on donations and proceeds from merchandise. Sales to fund campaign materials and activities – so we can continue to popularise the commonsense idea of re-nationalising the UK’s energy production and supply. If you believe in the campaign’s aims, then making a donation is a great way of showing your support for what we are doing and helping us to grow.

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. 47; Utility Card T-Shirt. New to mark the launch of the Power For The People campaign in autumn 2013, we are proud to present our first campaign t-shirt! Designed by Ellie Harrison. Riffing on the look of Monopoly Utility Card to incorporate the clenched fist of solidarity and resistance. Available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large and XX-Large. 8211; 100% white cotton t-shirt. 8211; Two colour screen print on front. To stay in touch or follow us on Facebook.

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Our Supporters | Power For The People

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. We can’t just fight fires and win incremental gains, we need systemic change. The energy we use, its source, its ownership and its distribution needs to come under democratic control, and it needs to be clean and renewable. Ewa Jasiewicz, Reclaim the Power. For-profit energy doesn’t work: thousands of people die every winter whilst companies make billions. We need affordable, sustainable and public and community owned energy now. Ewa Jasiewicz, Reclaim the Power.

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Owen Jones, writer | Power For The People

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. Rather than letting us be held to ransom by the Big Six bullies, let’s take energy under the democratic control of the British people and make sure it works for the interests of all of us, not the money-grabbing shareholders. Owen Jones, writer. Yes, nationalisation would be great. The prices are crazy at the moment. Becky Sherwood, Totnes. Professor Okullu-Ayor Vincent, Kampala, Uganda. Alex Casale, London. David Callahan, London. Annalise Richter, Swansea.

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Ellie Harrison, campaign founder | Power For The People

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. We all need to reduce our energy consumption, and there will never be a true incentive for this to happen as long as big business is allowed to continue to profit from selling it to us. Ellie Harrison, campaign founder. It’s time to acknowledge that some industries should be run for the benefit of people, not profit. Denis Keenan, Ossett. They should never have been split up. Susan Reineck, York. Eileen Watts, Swansea. Jason Fawley, Doncaster. To invest in, bui...

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Professor Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow | Power For The People

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. A publicly owned energy sector would be far cheaper than the existing privatised regime, because governments can borrow at much lower interest rates. Revenues from energy would then go to the public purse rather than private profit. Professor Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow. The Big Six are corporate thieves. Geoff Lange, Gosport. No compensation for the shareholders who got the shares at a bargain price. David Robinson, Sheffield. Anthony Peter, Todmorden.

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Clare Welton, Fuel Poverty Action | Power For The People

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. For-profit energy doesn’t work: thousands of people die every winter whilst companies make billions. We need affordable, sustainable and public and community owned energy now. Clare Welton, Fuel Poverty Action. Prices are too high. John Taylor, Guisborough. We don’t want more choice. We just want better service, of benefit to both individuals and companies, serving the economy as a whole, not just shareholders. Peter Moss, Birmingham. Brian Smith, Stockton Brook.

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Cat Hobbs, We Own It | Power For The People

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. 68% of the public want the energy companies to be publicly run. Whether we need local renewable energy or a national drive to reduce fuel poverty, it doesn’t make sense for our future to be dictated by Big Six profits. Cat Hobbs, We Own It. I’m sick of these rip-off companies fleecing us. Eddie Griffin, Borehamwood. Socialism was defeated from 1979 onwards. I was born in 1936 and it is time to restore it because of present day poverty and inequality. Now's the ...

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Your Views | Power For The People

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Skip to main content. Power For The People. The time has come for the downfall of the greedy Big Six, who are more than content to leave pensioners to freeze to death in their homes should they dare to eat vs heat. Jamie Bolam Scott, Nottingham. Above inflation price rises year on year is simply not sustainable. This is sheer profiteering. The companies can see that their days are numbered. Matthew Allen, Portsmouth. Time to get rid of the energy racketeers. Karen Johnson, Princes Risborough. Utility com...