By Steve Conley, Academy of Life Planning
9 December 2025
The government’s new anti-corruption drive made headlines this week. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy promised to “hunt down corrupt lawyers, accountants and bankers” — the so-called professional enablers of dirty money.
It’s a strong statement. But beneath the rhetoric lies a troubling silence: the campaign targets those who help criminals, not those who design the structures that allow criminality to thrive legally.
1. The Comfortable Illusion of Integrity
By focusing on “corrupt professionals,” the government reinforces the comforting illusion that corruption is an aberration — a few bad apples spoiling an otherwise wholesome orchard.
Yet the orchard itself is toxic. Britain’s financial and legal systems are structurally untrustworthy — architected in ways that make the concealment of harm lawful, lucrative, and unaccountable.
Banks can breach mandates, conceal evidence, and weaponise their own customers’ money to hire barristers against those very customers — all while remaining perfectly compliant.
That isn’t criminal misconduct.
It’s moral vacancy disguised as professionalism.
2. The Enabler Economy
The UK’s status as a global hub for financial services depends on an ecosystem of “enablers” — solicitors who create opacity, accountants who legitimise questionable valuations, and banks that process the flow.
But the real corruption lies not in the illegal act, but in the legal infrastructure that makes exploitation permissible.
Every year, an estimated £100 billion is laundered through Britain. To counter this, the government has given the City of London Police £15 million — a symbolic sum that amounts to less than a rounding error in the accounts of a single major bank.
It’s like putting a sticking plaster on a severed artery and calling it a cure.
3. Lawful Corruption: When Compliance Replaces Conscience
Our system confuses legality with morality.
If a bank funds its own defence with customer deposits, hides behind privilege, and uses procedural delay to wear down victims, no law is technically broken.
But justice is.
And when oversight bodies — the FCA, SRA, ICAEW — are funded and staffed by the very institutions they regulate, the result is not transparency but regulatory capture.
We are witnessing lawful corruption: exploitation made invisible by paperwork and precedent.
4. Whistleblowers and the Price of Truth
The government’s review into paying whistleblowers is the only hopeful note in this policy.
If done properly, it could empower insiders to expose wrongdoing.
But if narrowly applied — limited to tax or small-scale fraud — it will serve as yet another gesture that stops short of addressing systemic abuse.
True integrity demands that whistleblowers and citizen investigators are protected, incentivised, and respected, not vilified for breaking ranks with the status quo.
5. From Structural Untrustworthiness to Structural Trust
At the Academy of Life Planning, we argue that genuine reform begins not with compliance but with conscience.
Structural trustworthiness means that systems themselves — not merely their operators — are designed for honesty, accountability, and human dignity.
Until the architecture of finance and law is re-engineered for moral purpose, anti-corruption efforts will remain a spectacle: chasing criminals in the shadows while the legitimised corruption of boardrooms goes unexamined.
The corruption we don’t prosecute isn’t hidden in offshore accounts — it’s written into the rules, signed off by auditors, and defended in court with our own money.
Our message is simple:
Transparency begins when morality becomes measurable,
and integrity is built into the structure — not patched onto it.
Join the movement for structural trust.
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Get SAFE: A Fellowship for Those Walking Through Fire
Get SAFE is becoming what people are desperately searching for —
a structured, ethical, trauma-informed community for:
- victims of financial exploitation
- whistleblowers
- bereaved families
- citizen investigators
- advocates and moral leaders
The Fellowship is simple but profound:
We gather to recover agency, share truth, deepen courage, and support one another in the long path from harm to justice.
We are not aligned with any regulator, political system, or institution.
Our strength is our independence.
People came alive when they heard it:
“A Fellowship of truth, justice, and recovery — not a bureaucracy.”
“A place where victims are finally believed.”
“A community rooted in courage, not compliance.”
And because of the AI frameworks we’ve introduced, this Fellowship is not just emotional support — it is practical empowerment.
For the first time, ordinary people can:
- build digital dossiers
- reconstruct timelines
- detect patterns of institutional misconduct
- write letters with authority
- expose evidence regulators overlooked
- collaborate safely across cases
- turn pain into purpose
This is how movements begin.
Planning My Life: Preventing Exploitation Before It Starts
What the event also confirmed is this:
People fall into financial exploitation when they fall out of sovereignty.
Planning My Life sits exactly at this junction.
It teaches people:
- how to think independently
- how to plan their lives before planning their money
- how to identify institutional risk
- how to spot predatory sales patterns
- how to avoid product-led advice
- how to stay structurally trustworthy
- how to build a life where no adviser can mislead, confuse, or coerce them
Prevention and recovery are two halves of the same circle.
Get SAFE rescues those already harmed.
Planning My Life equips people so it never happens again.
Together, they form a complete empowerment system.
A New Model of Justice Is Emerging — Built by the People Themselves
The collective energy of the event revealed a truth that no institution dares speak:
When regulators fail, citizens take up the role of regulator.
When governance collapses, the governed take up the role of governance.
When truth is buried, truth-tellers become archivists of justice.
The movement we are seeing now is not political.
It is human.
It is built on:
- transparency
- dignity
- courage
- integrity
- collective intelligence
- and the healing power of community
These are the values Paul Moore lived and died for.
This event honoured him not by remembering his warnings —
but by continuing his fight.
Where We Go From Here
The Academy of Life Planning now carries a responsibility that is both moral and strategic:
To give people the tools to understand their lives,
their finances,
and their evidence —
so exploitation no longer survives in the shadows.
Through:
- Planning My Life (self-sovereignty)
- Get SAFE (justice and recovery)
- AI-as-co-pilot (pattern recognition, empowerment, clarity)
- The Fellowship (community and courage)
- The GAME Plan (a universal cycle of intention-to-manifestation)
…we are building the world that institutions promised but failed to deliver.
A world where truth has a home.
A world where victims are lifted, not shunned.
A world where ordinary people can finally stand equal to the powers that harmed them.
A world where transparency is not a slogan —
it is a lived practice that restores dignity, agency, and hope.
This is the movement Paul Moore began.
This is the movement that rose in that meeting.
This is the movement we now carry forward.
And we will not stop until every victim finds their voice,
every truth comes to light,
and every life stolen by exploitation is honoured through justice.
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Every year, thousands across the UK lose their savings, pensions, and peace of mind to corporate financial exploitation — and are left to face the aftermath alone.
Get SAFE (Support After Financial Exploitation) exists to change that.
We’re creating a national lifeline for victims — offering free emotional recovery, life-planning, and justice support through our Fellowship, Witnessing Service, and Citizen Investigator training.
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