Just imagine though, there was an exact moment in the UK where for the last time ever some gangster stole a bit of land, killed the rightful owners or ran the farmers off their farms, and without any fear of repercussion could just say “that’s mine now because I killed the people who used to own it”. And that gangster’s great great great grandkids quite likely still own it today and send their kids to study PPE at Oxford. That’s leaving aside all the squatters- the people who’ve just claimed land for long enough that we treat it like they definitely own it, like the black cuillin and similar- all those rich landowners who’re so desperately opposed to creating any sort of meaningful land register in the UK for, like, no reason at all and definitely not because they can’t actually prove they own the land…
