8,013
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
Frances Tabbernor
Christina Connolly
Melissa Jordan
David Bainbridge
Hilary Higgins
Deborah Neath
Sarah Botting
Marianna Mignani
Deborah Varley
Michael Skidmore
Jacqueline Golden
Malcolm Wallace
Penny Muir
Matthew Brain
Ana Oxley
Valerie Tull
Kirsty Nettleton
John Willis
Lizzie Thynne
James Brookshaw
Selver Osman
Sarah Thompson
Lisa James
Ray Gibbons
Claire Manning
Anton Todorov Georgiev
Diane Norton
Rebecca Hall
Anna Thornhill
Belinda Rea
Lesley Horner
Ruth Klassen Green
Trevor Howard
Pavlina Draganova
Stephanie Prescott-Decie
Joanne Lomas
Christine Basil
Tracy Goodenough
Kathryn Summerfield
Farhiyo
Diana Trollope
Amanda Coppard
Donna Maksimovic
Pat Cunningham
Vicky Hatia
Doreen Scarles
Wendy Jackson
Robert Innes
Steven Cross
Hilary Rock-Gormley
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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?
