Carole Williamson, DurhamEssentials like travel and public services and utilities should be run by us, for us.
Sharon Jenner, TelfordPrivatisation does not work.
Bradley Sansom, BradfordThe government has just privatised East Coast, which will inevitably end in disaster like the other failed attempts before. It was making a massive profit in public hands.
Kathryn Devney, HastingsGive the people who use the trains a fair deal rather than the private companies who put prices up and up. The government don’t do bad out of it either.
Kaissa TaitIt is cheaper to rent a car for a week than buy tickets from Birmingham to Brighton. We should be encouraging people to use green transport not pricing them out.
Mark McQuillan, LondonEast Coast is doing well under national ownership, It would be good to see more of it.
Susan Golden, BridgwaterYes please. Let’s guard our rail assets.
Ian Buckley, Castle DouglasCould we get BR as good as SNCF?
Anthony Brigg, IlkleyWe were promised an integrated transport system by Labour in 1997 but what we got were more private franchises ripping out excessive profits to pay greedy shareholders.
Henry Sanders, OxfordIt is a key national asset, fundamental to the economy and currently is being run for profit not for purpose.
Steven Hands, NottinghamBR was created because the private railways were a shambles, as they are now. A properly run service will benefit the country and the economy, rather than a greedy few.
Susan Bell, LondonBring back British Rail.
Hannah Bloom, LeedsThe publicly owned East Coast railway is making money for the country. Let them all do that.
Otto Linden, LydneyIt’s just getting ridiculous.
John Cornell Cornell, SheffieldWe need a not-for-profit, user-centred service with efficiency and effectiveness at its heart.
Antonios Bakouris, BrightonI have been commuting to work to London for 18 years. The train service is getting more expensive and worse to an unacceptable level.
Robin Carr, BirminghamSome things are better in public hands. British rail is one of them.
Carolyn Scott, LeicesterIt worked well in my past. I want it to be part of my future.
Godfrey Nyandoro, LeedsThe parcelling out of essential services to the private sector should have never been allowed in the first place. The shareholder has one thing and one thing only – profit.
Sylvia Webb, SunburyIt feels as if it’s all disintegrated. Make it function properly by joining up the pieces.
Hampton Family, Westgate-on-SeaI agree that we should re-nationalise the railways and make them more affordable.
Diane Moore, HarrowAs a pensioner, money is tight. It would be brilliant to be able to travel to see my son and grandsons at an affordable price.
Fred Bridgland, EdinburghEast Coast Rail is great and easy to deal with. A government with imagination would let it compete against the privatised companies and see who performed best.
Harvey Upton, ElyIts high time we reversed the criminal corrupt theft of public assets (aka privatisation) by Tory criminal elites and their corporate funders.
David Dowker, BradfordRail is a service, not a profit source for the rich.
David Dakin, SheffieldWhy stop at the East Coast? Privatisation has only brought greed and poor service. Let’s go the whole hog and bring all the railways back to public ownership.
Niamh Mulvey, LondonI sign because of daily misery caused by Southeastern railway.
Michael Shone, ChesterI saw the advert on the back of Private Eye – a worthy campaign.
Lucy Sherston, BrightonI’m incredibly fed up with paying over the odds for a service I rely on that is cancelled/delayed the majority of the time, with little warning.
Lynn Bates, CarlisleYes Ed, be bold and re-nationalise the railways. Also ban fracking while you’re about it.