Public services are services to the public not for private profit.

Trevor Wise, Uppingham

The provision of essentials like water, power and transport should obviously not be in private hands.

Roger Higgs, Bude

Competition is supposed to drive down prices among competitors but this is obviously not the case.

Jon Evans, Cardiff

It’s time to call a halt to the massive failings of the privatised rail network.

Alan Campbell, Balerno

Public transport needs to be public, with all profit used to maintain and improve services.

Rick Herco-Thomas, Cardiff

Just delays and people faffing around.

Ben Williams, West Sussex

Travel should not be private. Privatisation does not work for all. Rail first then Air.

Nick Anderson, Tunbridge Wells

Passengers pay twice, through subsidies to private companies from our taxes, again on ticket purchases. Ticketing system ludicrously complicated.

Sara Cooper, Whitley Bay

The current system is run for the friends of politicians, not the people.

Andrew Ridgway, Manchester

Please bring back British Rail and stop the British public being robbed by the greedy profit-obsessed train companies.

Rebecca Manley,

Rail privatisation has been an expensive disaster.

Terence Johnstone, Cleethorpes

I support your campaign.

Mashood Ahmad, Chorley

Bring back nationalisation to reduce fares and generate more revenue for the Country.

Steve Hardy, Rhyl

Please bring back British Rail.

Sarah Henningham, Urmston, Manchester

Build a coalition for nationalisation.

Michael Cole, London

And the rest of the utilities.

Philip Quaife

I welcome the chance to add my name to a campaign to return the railways to the public. Let’s run them for the good of the public, not profit for shareholders.

Steve Pilkington, Belper

I’m 100% in favour of re-nationalisation of all public transport.

Shaun Featherstone, Cardiff

Privatisation has been a total disaster, taking the public for a ride in quite the wrong way.

Neil Rhoden, Stromness

Privatisation has left us with the most expensive and worst trains in Europe.

Alex Ross, Cambridge

There is no benefit to rail users in having a privatised railway service. Please bring back a network to serve the needs of the user.

Roy Morris, Sheffield

Like roads, the railways ought to be a national resource not a private profit-making organisation.

Clive Minnican, Felixstowe

Stop pouring public money into private pockets.

Robert McCombe, Hawarden

Just another competition mess handed to speculating shareholders to make money at the expense of the commuting populace. Re-nationalise. Re-investment.

John Howard, Hemel Hempstead

The railways were run much better when British Rail ran the service and didn’t keep putting the fares up.

Sharon Baynham, London

Public transport is essential to any sensible society. A good public transport system is more efficient, cleaner and simply a better use of resources.

David Styles, London.

The number of reasons for having an efficient, clean and reliable Rail Network are vast and numerous, yet since privatisation the Network has been anything but.

Danny Elliott, Lincoln

I am a frequent traveller and believe that the fragmentation of the system causes waste and inefficiency. Blame John Major.

Tom McGuinness, Bourne

There are institutions that, even in a free market economy, function far more effectively when run nationally. Transport, along with health care and others, is one of them.

Alex Ogden, Bury