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What these blogs demonstrate are the dangers of "corporatism"-where the dividing lines between the state and big corporations become increasingly blurred, with "invisible" connections barely understood.

The existing conveyancing market contains a number of ethical checks and balances and works well, with the Crown's Land Registry stopping fraud as best it can in an impartial manner for the public good.

The idea of such sensitive data being sold off is frankly horrifying, let alone any proposal which might put trillions of pounds of land in a situation where our conveyancing system could be held to ransom by the private sector in a way not yet understood