Entity: Elliott Stanley

Semantic Summary

Bromsgrove-based businessman and co-founder, with Ryan Bridge, of Raise the Colours (RTC) — the most rapidly growing far-right street movement of 2025–2026. While Bridge was the public face and confrontational organiser, Stanley provided the business infrastructure, drawing on his background as a former director of Sex Doll Official (a sex doll sales and rental company that failed during COVID-19) and later a tanning business. He told The Telegraph in September 2025 that "I started the movement in south Birmingham and it's gone national", but by early 2026 he had vanished from RTC's public activities — a disappearance coinciding with the group's escalation into serious criminality and his co-founder's multiple arrests, suggesting internal splits or a strategic withdrawal. Now inactive, his brief but crucial founding role makes him a key figure in understanding how RTC formed and why it collapsed.

Basic Information

Type: Person / Far-right activist / Businessman
Status: Inactive (has not appeared in RTC activities since early 2026)
Real name: Elliott Stanley
Background: Former director of a sex doll rental company; now runs a tanning business
Role: Co-founder of Raise the Colours (RTC)
Platforms: Facebook, Instagram
Location: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Role in Ecosystem

Elliott Stanley is the co-founder of Raise the Colours (RTC), alongside Ryan Bridge. While Bridge was the public face and confrontational organiser, Stanley provided the business infrastructure — his background in running Sex Doll Official (a sex doll sales and rental company) and later a tanning business positioned him as the operational counterpart to Bridge's street activism.

Stanley's significance is as the invisible co-founder: he told the Telegraph in September 2025 "I started the movement in south Birmingham and it's gone national", but by early 2026 he had vanished from RTC's public activities. His disappearance from the group while his co-founder faced multiple arrests and the group descended into criminal cases suggests either internal splits or a strategic withdrawal as the legal heat intensified.

His brief but crucial role in founding RTC — the most rapidly growing far-right street movement of 2025-2026 — makes him a key figure in understanding how the group formed and why it collapsed.

Known Associations

Person/Org	Relationship	Evidence
Ryan Bridge	Co-founder of Raise the Colours	Wikipedia, multiple sources
Sex Doll Official	Former director (dissolved)	Birmingham World
Raise the Colours	Co-founder (Aug 2025)	Wikipedia

Notes

Based in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire — a "leafy crescent" address per Birmingham Mail
Former director of Sex Doll Official, which sold and rented sex dolls; business failed during COVID-19
Now runs a tanning business
Told The Telegraph in Sept 2025: "I started the movement in south Birmingham and it's gone national"
Has not appeared in RTC videos or activities since early 2026
The i Paper (Jun 2026) reported Elliott Stanley "has not been featured in months"
His disappearance from RTC coincides with the group's escalation into serious criminality