8,011
of 20,000 signatures
To The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy companies are making huge profits and Shell has just announced three monthly profits of more than £8 billion. It is despicable that these companies then set their domestic energy prices at levels we, ordinary people, just cannot afford. It is ridiculous that our government does not do something to stop this.
If they kept our electricity and gas prices low, energy companies could still make great profits. The gap between our incomes and their profits is mind blowing. The hard and sad reality is that children really are suffering now and it will get worse as the weather gets colder. Imagine being a parent who really and truly has to choose between having the heating on and buying basic food for your family. Imagine knowing that if you don't pay, the bailiffs could come and take away your furniture. This is not a horror story. It's happening all over our country.
If they kept our electricity and gas prices low, energy companies could still make great profits. The gap between our incomes and their profits is mind blowing. The hard and sad reality is that children really are suffering now and it will get worse as the weather gets colder. Imagine being a parent who really and truly has to choose between having the heating on and buying basic food for your family. Imagine knowing that if you don't pay, the bailiffs could come and take away your furniture. This is not a horror story. It's happening all over our country.
Open letter text
The government must act to force energy companies to lower and keep domestic prices at an affordable level. They could do so much, but choose to do so little. They could easily pass a law to protect families, old people - all of us - from fuel poverty. It is immoral to allow energy companies to make such indecent profits while children suffer.
Signers list
Kerrie Duggan
Harvey Morgan Case
Julie Record
Peter Riley
Elspeth Maguire
Clare Robson
Laura Richardson
Nigel Warren
Julie Allen Keogh
Myles Cook
Janet Mcnulty
Dmitrij Agapov
Evelyn Carr
Keith Boswell
Terence Calvert
Lisa Elliott
Sheila Maguire
Tracey Taylor
Scott Elwick
Carrie de Carteret
Marie-Jose Loncelle-Burris
Pauline Lovat
Kay Armstrong
Joanne Mcallister
James
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Mai Ramsay
Carole Pearce
Annette Evans
Sally Clay
Ian Leonard
Arron Lambert
Ajmal Ali
Nusrat Begum
Hayley Scott
Susan Childs
Brian Reid
Manoj.Rawal Rawal
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Tristram Wyatt
Eric Worrall
Keith Gotts
Carl Lowrie
Patricia Valerie Almond
David Kingsbury
Gary Gibson
Barbara Hosken Johns
Claire Bernard
How Jones
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The choices Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps make in the Autumn Budget could make or break things for millions of people this winter. Can you help this petition win by chipping in £8?
