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
Jan Donnelly
Nicola Earle
Thomas Watters
Venancio Casal
Thomas Gore
Stewart Gammon
Ken Pickup
Tammi Nutting
Muhammad Ilyas
Charlene Dobson
Denise Blair
Peter Williams
Clare Hobson
Francis Meynell
Fluer Seaton
Christopher R Cannon
Hall Joyce
Emma Reeves
Jean Charnock
Syed Niese
Debbie Aki
Anthony Delaney
Richard Carless
Ryelle Chapman
Md Musaddik Ahmed
Alex Mattson
Helen Clare Dixon
Karen Ablett
Stewart
Pauline Brewer
Victoria Hoskins
M Lawson
Aneta Stranc
Anne Gavin
Dee
Olivert Keen
Linda Allway
Wendy Abdelkader
Fran Brough
Daryl Oakes
Kay Saxton
Clare Louise Jones
Andrea Sidebottom
Nina Moody
Janet Paice
Sonia B
Linda Jeal
Robert Staveley
Linda Colback
Lorraine Mulligan
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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?
