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
Astra Parsons
Sheena Mc Cafferty
Sybil Worsley
Rosemary Bowers
Mohamed Abdulle
Graham Warwick
Rosemary Fallows
Lisa Higginson
Dennis Gound
Salma Sidat
Elaine Wilkinson
Vincent Clohessy
Steven Flucker
Sue Allpress
Wayne Saunders
Nan Edwards
Joshua Sadler
Juliet Beavis
Heather Bignold
Lizzie Woodman
Delwyn Hugh Williams
Adam Holloway
Mushtaq Hafejee
Tracey Hancox
Zoe Cox
June Wigfall
Marianne Parker
Stephen Mclaren
Patricia Henderson
Ian Lindley
Arifa Parkar
Patricia Cooper
Heather Aggoun
Ann Barker
Rodney Walker
Gordon Walter Keitch
Gareth Robson
Esther Joan Norris
Stephen Deeley
Sam
David Scott
Arthur Steward
Andrew Cain
S Javid
Melanie Jones
Pankhurst Christopher
Linda Mcfarlane
Scott Hamilton
Barbara Platts
Joanna Brown
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