Privatisation was a disaster. All it brought was private profit with the public paying more. Electricity should be re-nationalised too.

William Edmonds, Huddersfield

The buses and trains need to be run as one system with the aim of getting people from anywhere in the country to anywhere else.

Peter Sims, Basingstoke

Privatisation doesn’t work. Nationalisation does, if not interfered with by those with vested interests. Get the country moving and working properly again.

Helen Ingham, Luton

Infrastructure services should be for the national good, not shareholders’.

Graham Lester George, Nottingham

British Rail I miss you!

Ian Crockford, Birmingham

The railway network should never have been privatised in the first place.

Margaret Garland, Aylesbury

Check out the pathetic rail service in North Wales. Who cares?

Sue McCall, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

I use the train frequently and am disheartened at the decreasing levels of quality of all journeys. We need to standardise the whole network as it is a disgrace.

Lauren Hopkins, London

Comment not needed – The problems are obvious without even looking.

Dave Ayres, Milton Keynes

Privatisation was a huge mistake, just driven by political dogma. New Labour broke their promise to re-nationalise. But there is still hope! Good luck!

Michael Cockburn, Cambridge

I have always felt that it is wrong to privatise any public service and can’t wait to see the result of this petition.

John Nicholls, Tuxford

End the fraud and corruption by the City of London and the bought politicians.

Paul Hollister, Stockport

They never should have been privatised and neither should water, which, like air, should be free for all.

Jenny Almeida, London

Railways should be state-owned and a not-for-profit industry.

Pete Boor, Penzance

Keep to one company not several in competition.

Dorothy Joyce Cox, Poole

Stop propping up private firms. Let us run it from central office.

Kenneth Miller, Leeds

Unified and for the public not the shareholders.

James Haley, Leeds

Let’s have a government with common sense. Is that too much to ask for? Apparently so.

Carol Wilson, Saffron Walden

Let’s have a decent rail service back.

Christopher Smith, Penzance

Rail network is a disgrace. I work up in Glasgow and I’m fed up with trains being cancelled, overcrowding and sky-high fares for a deplorable service.

Isabelle McGoogan, Ardrossan

Joined up thinking is required to properly manage the structure of the privatised railway.

Frank Nicholas Adam

Private profits have just left us with some of the worst infrastructure in Europe. It’s time they finished.

George Gilroy, King’s Lynn

We need a single authority that will be responsible for a unified network. This is the only way that customers will be provided with the service they need and deserve.

Edward Hudson, York

Private ownership only ever lines the pockets of shareholders and never serves the public needs.

Doreen Stevenson, Portsmouth

Win votes by doing something for the people.

Lynn Lansbury, Sandown

It’s terrible. I take so many train journeys a year and it’s all Virgin Trains – so expensive.

Yasser Sheikh, High Wycombe

It will never be the same as when I worked for British Rail.

Jaymee Smith, Redhill

Please can we get things joined up again. I am fed up with a rail network using different operators and shopped out maintenance. It was better before.

Kathryn Read, Nottingham

This is a public service. Give it back to the public.

Elaine Dyson, Holywell