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WATCH: Raise the Colours founders warn of 'thousands' of men in France waiting to cross to Britain
Nov 7, 2025
The founders of the Raise the Colours movement have told GB News they are "heartbroken" after witnessing "thousands upon thousands" of migrants in France waiting to cross the Channel into Britain.Speaking exclusively to GB News following their trip, Ryan Bridge and Elliott Stanley were overcome with emotion as they warned that the country is on "the brink of crisis".FULL STORY HERE.
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Welcome back. Brace yourself on this astonishing exclusive now because the founders of Raise the Colours were so appalled by the surge of small boats to Britain, they went to France to film it
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What they witnessed absolutely blew them away. Packed dinghies, armies of young men, and as they say, clueless gendarmes
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I cannot let this happen, guys. There's the boat. There's the boat
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Get on it. I go fresh off the ferry from their incredible voyage of discovery
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Elliot Stanley and Ryan Bridge join me now in the studio in Westminster. Gentlemen, welcome to Westminster
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You've literally, by the way, just come back from France. You'd been there, as I understand, for two days, sleeping in the sand dunes
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Let's start. What motivated you to go, Ryan? And just tell us about the incredible sights you saw
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Well, obviously, it's classed as small boats, and we just thought we'd go and check it out and see what was going on
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and what's going on with the country. And so we thought we'd go out there
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And after the flag movements that we've done at raisethecolours.org.uk, we thought we'd get out there and show
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and we've got a big flag and raised the colours and it's for Armistice Day and stuff
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So we've gone out there and we went out on Tuesday night
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Wednesday morning, and what we've seen was absolutely shocking, Martin. I appreciate you having us on for us to give us some time
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as always, at GB for us to tell the tale. What we've seen is heartbreaking for me as an English patriot
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It's heartbreaking for us as countrymen to see what is going on, the numbers that are going on
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From the minute we got off at Calais, we sort of turned right off the tunnel
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We went and seen the dunes And all of a sudden in Calais there just teams and teams of men so we pulled up we going to document this on our platform and the first team we seen was just like racks of men in queues neatly and we
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pulled up and they must have thought we were part of some agency and that was
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completely fine there was hundreds of these people and we carried on and when
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we got down to the area that we'd found which was called grave Gravelines
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Gravelines. That's the launch beach. That's the launch beach. When we got to Gravelines, we could see that this wasn't people just running and jumping on a dinghy
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This was people that is a highly, highly organised operation where the army were handing out ration pack bags from Decathlon
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with their life vest in. Everyone was holding one of them and they get moved to the next section and the next section
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So we staked it out for the first night. The police were milling about, but there wasn't the amount of police for the people that were there
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There was no French people there. It looked like it was a deserted ghost town
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The guys we went with, I just want to say, they're sort of in the van outside
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We're covered in sand. We're soaked. We've had no sleep since Tuesday
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And we're very, very emotional. I can tell you're really emotional. What is it in particular
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Some of the footage you've got here, basically you're seeing huge packs of men
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charging over the tops of dunes, and you're making off after them
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because you're asking them, you know, why are you going to England? It's a really moving footway. You're asking them
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You're not threatening them. You're not chasing them. You're asking them why England
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No, not at all. Why England? And this is the final sort of destination through Europe
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These men were from an African descent, so they must have come through more than seven safe countries
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to get to the final destination, France, and then to England, which is where they're going to end up
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And these guys that you can see on the pictures now were obviously landed in England before we got back to them
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They're probably already here now. It was shocking to see. The night before we were mistaked out we seen tractors that come onto the beach in the middle of the night with big spotlights on and these tractors were sort of covering and ploughing so it must be where the boats may be or whatnot
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but the boats, the size of these boats, they're not small boats, they're quite big inflatables, motor-powered inflatables
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and then we were literally there, and then we've seen the money shot
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was when we've just seen teams of men coming up and lining in orderly queues
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with their ration packs, with all their stuff ready. They were on top of the dune
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And then the police walked up, two of them, with a tin of pepper spray and walked up
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and they were just casually looking. And then all of a sudden the migrants just went for it
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and they just ran onto the beach. The beach, it's not like a normal beach
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It's like a massive, vast area. And then we were just going through bogs and mud
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and we followed them and it was just shocking to see when we got through the mist and the fog
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but what was out there. Elliot, I mean, some of that footage is simply astonishing
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You're in the water, up to your waist yourselves, just trying to film this, document it
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and there's an endless tide of immigrants risking their lives to get on these boats, and the boats, you can see
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they're buckling under the weight. They look barely seaworthy. When we went over there, we were anticipating
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that it was going to be a needle in a haystack trying to find them, and our anticipation was completely wrong
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We found them within a minute. everywhere we drove, and we only scratched the surface
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of a couple of towns in northern France. Everywhere we went, there was just migrants
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There's thousands upon thousands upon thousands waiting to get on these boats and come over here
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I cannot impress upon you the numbers that we're talking about. And it's... I think we're in..
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I think this country is in absolute dire straits moving forward. if whichever government it is doesn't get a grip on this
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We're in shock here. For the amount of people that are walking around the town with these orange vests on it obvious what they going to do It obvious two or three police officers are not going to be able to cope with this throughout the night They all getting prepared
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Why are we... Why is our government giving so much money to France all over the years
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£800 million, I believe, for this to happen? And it's just a leisurely pace, and these guys took their chance
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I mean, sorry to interject, the irony is the police are doing nothing
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and then when we walked off the beach, 23 police officers detained us for an hour and a half
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Why? Because they'd seen us on the beach, and to be honest, they never offered any explanation
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as to why they detained us. They were not particularly friendly towards us
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And, yeah, an hour and a half in the freezing cold, you know, some of us had been soaked up to our waist in water
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I was literally in my pants at the side of the beach. Soaking wet
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And just important to know that there's no charges. You didn't do anything wrong. Oh, no, no, no. They just detained you
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They just detained us. No, no, no, no. Sorry, let's get back to the good gentleman. I can tell by you, you're clearly really, really emotional here
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I am absolutely devastated, I feel, for everybody in the country that doesn't really know the real picture of what we've seen
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And for all the people on all social platforms, we have gone over there and to have a look what's going on
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with the boat situation and to what's coming into the country, and it is teams of men
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There was no women, there was no children. Not one woman or not one child. It was all teams of men of young fighting age
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They were between 18 and 35. And they were fit and able men
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And, you know, I looked and they were stripping off as they were running along the beach
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And they throw all their clothes and then jump in like heart. It's really, really bizarre
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And the police just don't do anything. Having a leisurely stroll while having a cigarette, just admiring that
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It's shocking. We have to move on. Ryan and Elliot, thank you very, very much for joining us in the studio
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and it's important to add that Ryan Elliott did this off their own backs and we are not urging anybody to copy them
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as obviously this can be very dangerous. This was entirely self-started
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