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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

Finance chairman, Mr. Richard Coles, says he's encouraging the group to visit and says,...

Finance chairman, Mr. Richard Coles, says he's encouraging the group to visit and says, "Our financial
sector has nothing to hide." - I would say if anybody wants to come to Cayman to find out what's coming, what we do here, come on down

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Finance chairman, Mr. Richard Coles,
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says he's encouraging the group to visit
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and says, "Our financial sector has nothing to hide."
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- I would say if anybody wants to come
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to Cayman to find out what's coming,
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what we do here, come on down.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:03
Uploaded
Oct 30, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

How Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power.
- When I went to the Cayman Islands, back in 2008, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
- When I went to the Cayman Islands, back in 2008,
He said, "Okay, we have had an order from on high - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
He said, "Okay, we have had an order from on high
"You are off limits." - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:14
"You are off limits."
- The author of a series of international media reports - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
- The author of a series of international media reports
Mr. Travers recently called Nicholas Shaxson an imbecile - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:09
Mr. Travers recently called Nicholas Shaxson an imbecile
Now the politics of envy are exacerbated - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:10
Now the politics of envy are exacerbated
And furthermore, he doesn't know what he's talking about. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
And furthermore, he doesn't know what he's talking...
- [Narrator] The Cayman Islands - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
- [Narrator] The Cayman Islands
It hosts 80,000 registered companies, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
It hosts 80,000 registered companies,
It has a population of 60,000, roughly equivalent - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:09
It has a population of 60,000, roughly equivalent
(solemn music) - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:19
(solemn music)
(solemn music) - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:18
(solemn music)
- For many people, who work offshore - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:17
- For many people, who work offshore
Most of the time though, the instruments - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
Most of the time though, the instruments
You won't get promotion by doing this, or you know, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
You won't get promotion by doing this, or you know,
We are talking about very substantially the establishment, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
We are talking about very substantially the establishment,
A sort of ostracism is one way of doing it. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
A sort of ostracism is one way of doing it.
These peculiar mechanisms for if someone tries - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
These peculiar mechanisms for if someone tries
You steer them in a different direction. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:05
You steer them in a different direction.
- [Narrator] One person who is intimately familiar - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
- [Narrator] One person who is intimately familiar