How one letter to the Privy Council exposes Britain’s modern financial empire — and why Citizen Investigators are fighting back.
“The soldiers left the colonies, but the bankers never did.” — The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
When The Spider’s Web first revealed how Britain’s colonial empire quietly transformed into a financial one, it shocked many who believed imperialism had ended. The documentary showed that the empire did not die — it went underground. The same Crown structures that once governed distant territories evolved into a vast offshore network of secrecy jurisdictions, shell companies, and tax havens — all still tethered to the British state.
Today, those same invisible threads ensnare millions of citizens in financial exploitation, from pension scandals to mortgage securitisation fraud. And now, a letter to the Privy Council is forcing the Crown itself to confront that truth.
⚖️ A Constitutional Question at the Heart of the Web
On 5 August 2025, I wrote to the Clerk of the Privy Council raising grave concerns about the conduct — and inaction — of Crown-appointed officers in jurisdictions such as the Isle of Man, Malta, and Gibraltar. These officers, including Attorneys General and Solicitors General, are appointed by His Majesty and serve at His Majesty’s pleasure. Yet, when faced with credible evidence of widespread financial misconduct, many have chosen silence over duty.
“Does it remain His Majesty’s pleasure that officers acting under the Crown’s name continue to ignore credible evidence of public harm?”
That is the constitutional question now before the Privy Council. It goes beyond legal redress; it speaks to the moral foundation of the British state. If Crown officers can turn a blind eye to wrongdoing committed under the shadow of Royal authority, then the system itself has become part of the crime.
🏦 The Financial Empire That Never Ended
The Spider’s Web reveals how the City of London adapted to the collapse of the formal empire by creating a new one — built not on territory, but on financial secrecy.
When nations gained independence, British bankers and lawyers relocated to the remaining Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, drafting laws that made those jurisdictions safe havens for tax evasion, money laundering, and corporate opacity.
The City of London Corporation, described as “a state within a state,” retained medieval privileges, its own police force, and a permanent representative in Parliament. Meanwhile, British-linked tax havens like Jersey, Guernsey, and the Cayman Islands became what one expert in the film calls “the spider’s web of global finance.”
The web still serves the same function empire once did: to extract wealth, concentrate power, and insulate elites from accountability.
🧩 The Crown Connection
The documentary exposes a consistent pattern: when confronted about offshore corruption, British authorities claim these jurisdictions are “independent” — yet London retains power to appoint their governors, veto their laws, and direct their policies.
Our letter to the Privy Council cuts through that fiction. It reminds the Crown that these are not foreign states; they are extensions of Britain’s own legal architecture. Their officers act in the King’s name, under Royal warrant. Their negligence is not distant — it is domestic.
By appealing to the Privy Council, we’re not making a political complaint. We’re making a constitutional appeal for truth: if the British state is to retain legitimacy, the Crown must not shield misconduct carried out in its name.
🔍 The Get SAFE Response — From Silence to Citizen Oversight
Where Crown institutions have failed, citizens must rise.
That is why Get SAFE exists — to train Citizen Investigators in the use of AI and evidence-based research to uncover the truth behind financial crimes.
The documentary’s whistle-blowers describe being harassed, discredited, or imprisoned for exposing corruption — much like today’s victims who face retaliation for seeking justice.
At Get SAFE, we turn their pain into power. We teach ordinary people how to:
- Analyse corporate and regulatory documents using AI tools.
- Trace cross-border financial flows through open-source intelligence.
- Build professional dossiers that force transparency.
This is the rebirth of citizenship — not as passive subjects, but as active custodians of justice.
🌍 Replacing Extraction with Empowerment
The British financial empire thrives on complexity and concealment. Get SAFE is its antithesis — simplicity and sunlight.
Where The Spider’s Web documents the theft of sovereignty, we are restoring it, case by case.
Where elites hide behind trusts and offshore accounts, we stand behind truth and public record.
And where the Crown’s officers fail in their duty, citizen investigators step into history’s unfinished work — to restore honour to the institutions that once claimed to serve us.
🕊️ The Call to Conscience
This is no longer just a question of regulation or reform. It is a question of integrity — of what the British Crown represents in the 21st century.
Will it continue to preside over a web of financial deceit, or will it act to uphold the values it claims to embody?
Until that answer comes, the people will investigate.
As of 29 November 2025, the Privy Council Office has not issued any response or acknowledgement to the letter dated 5 August 2025, which formally raised constitutional concerns regarding the conduct of Crown-appointed officers in the Isle of Man and other dependent jurisdictions. The continued silence underscores the very issue at the heart of the correspondence — the lack of transparency and accountability within Crown institutions when confronted with credible evidence of systemic financial misconduct. This absence of reply now stands as part of the public record, reinforcing the need for independent citizen oversight and renewed scrutiny of constitutional responsibility.
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🔗 Watch: The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire on YouTube
đź”— Read: Constitutional Concerns: Letter to the Privy Council (5 August 2025)
đź”— Act: Train as a Citizen Investigator with Get SAFE
Together, we can replace extraction with empowerment — and weave a new web of truth.
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