> This is completely bonkers to me.
So you need to look into the City of London, the Magna Carta, the Remembrancer and realise that the UK is the only parliament where an unelected body can veto everything Parliament votes on! That is the power of the City of London, but it doesnt advertise this fact for obvious reasons, but its why this country holds onto to its ceremonies so much.
> How can you defend property rights without having some kind of authority that knows who owns a certain property?
So the City & Guilds is a City of London thing, and tradespeople have been used for hundreds of years to act like a secret army. Well its the tradespeople who do the City of London's bidding because a master tradesman can introduce planned obsolescence into pretty much any work carried out. For example, a plumber could leave some flux on a copper pipe and over the years this will corrode into a tiny pinhole where water drips out and slowly ruins a part of the property. Now are you going to inspect every inch of copper pipping in your house?
The plumber will have had their money and long since gone. You get another plumber in, they identify the problem and repair it typically without explaining how or why it happened. These are tricks of the trade which get used for repeat business. The best one's are listed on the stock markets!
Some renters may be more familiar with saturated animal fats left down the sink when leaving, pretty much everyone who is good at their job has some sort of malicious compliance, and you can read about that on Reddit.
Now the beauty of all this is, some problems are actually red flags but you wont always know they are a red flag. Its like a form of stealth communication in plain sight and free speech is a licence to gossip and gossiping involves rumours which can be used to inflict psychological harm on their victims. Its surprising what the law does not allow as evidence in court.
>And you're not nationalizing this because...?
You obviously dont know how whistle-blowers get treated. I'm sure you are familiar with the phrase "accidents happen"?
One of my first lessons as a kid given to me was keep my mouth shut by pain of death.
However it would be remiss of me to not point out that Govt NHS, Military & Police are not engaged in their own forms of criminality as well.