8,012
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
Rowena Hardwick
Louise Smith
Paddy Hepplewhite
Christine Travis
Amanda Ford
Barbara C Welford
Ruairí Corr
Mary South
John Wright
Joanne Scurfield
Katy Madeley
Victor Hudson Foulds
Mal John
Lorna Riley
David John
Christine Knott
Jan Warwick
Gerard Carey
Paul Cordara
David Wright
Rajan Naidu
Dmitrij Agapov
Sandra Bonner
Amie Ceesay Sowe
Jamie Shred
Christian Leslie Carlton
Graham Diggle
Evrard Missakidi
Ann Knight
John Malone
Jane Tagg
Andrew Fellows
Jonathan Polkest
Antoinette Sym
Alice Crystal
Anthony Joynt
Denise Guthrie
Hermela Tesfaye
James Gill
John Langstaff
Jacky Puzey
Anne Mcgregor
Mary Scholes
Robert Helson
Caz Mchenry
Maria Papadimitriou
Heather Taylor
Muhammad Anwer
Amy Todd
Ian Farrow
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