The posh background of Just Stop Oil’s pink-haired poster woman

Phoebe Plummer isn’t any stranger to Just Stop Oil‘s relentless marketing campaign of chaos.

At simply 22 years previous, the prolific protester has been arrested for a string of disturbances.

But the pink-haired eco-activist was raised a far cry from the world of civil disobedience, handcuffs, and jail cells.

Growing up a stone’s throw from the King’s Road in her household’s £4million Chelsea dwelling, Plummer loved a lifetime of privilege some might solely dream of.

Privately educated at £45,000 a yr St Mary’s School in Ascot, she then moved on to Mander Portman Woodward College in London to review A-Levels in Chemistry, Computer Science and Mathematics.

Phoebe Plummer sits in the course of the road as police encompass her

Phoebe Plummer is led away by police following a Just Stop Oil Protest

The top-class training helped her safe straight A* grades and a spot on the University of Manchester to review Computer Science however ended up learning Social Anthropology at SOAS University of London, based on her LinkedIn.

Plummer ultimately swapped learning for activism, making her title on the JSO circuit.

The Mail can reveal that the 22-year-old seems to stay in a big home in Clapham, south London, owned by the Church of England.

The activist was final registered as residing on the property, which is a Vicarage for the native priest.

It was purchased by the Diocese of Southwark in 1991 for an unrecorded worth, however homes on the leafy road have not too long ago offered for as much as £4million.

Last evening, the Diocese of Southwark confirmed that parsonages are personal properties for clergymen and their household, so it is unclear why Plummer was permitted to stay there.

In the summer time of 2023, she posed alongside her fellow JSO campaigners for an arty function within the glamorous journal Dazed.

Staring into the digital camera with STOP OIL emblazoned throughout her chest and holding a can of Heinz tomato soup, the 22-year-old wore a silk and cotton sweater by the unique Italian model Loro Piana, the place jumpers can value upwards of £1,000.

Sixteen Just Stop Oil members had been arrested late final yr after staging a disruptive demonstration exterior the Prime Minister’s dwelling in Kensington, West London. Police additionally moved on a gaggle of protesters who gathered exterior Sir Keir Starmer‘s household dwelling to sing Christmas carols with a local weather change message.

In October 2022, Plummer was arrested for prison injury and aggravated trespass after she and a good friend – Anna Holland – threw Heinz tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers within the National Gallery 

But an undercover Mail on Sunday investigation has found these stunts had been simply an ‘experiment’ for a brand new wave of intimidating direct motion.

Speaking to a reporter posing as a brand new recruit, one Just Stop Oil activist referred to as Joe defined: ‘What our technique is, no less than within the short-term, is that we’ll be occupying Labour MPs’ places of work, their homes, disrupting their speeches, and so on.

‘So that is form of what taking motion with Just Stop Oil seems to be like for the brief time period. We’re not going to be doing what we have been doing beforehand which is marching on the roads. There’s been a change of route. The goal is Labour MPs.’

But he additionally stated they ‘would possibly simply be focusing on Tories’ too.

Last yr Sir Keir enraged activists when he stated a Labour Government wouldn’t tear up the 100 new drilling licences granted by the Conservatives to discover North Sea oil and gasoline fields. And this month he slashed Labour’s inexperienced funding plans over considerations about their staggering value.

Joe stated: ‘There’s going to be an Election this yr. Labour are in all probability the incoming authorities. And our demand is that they eliminate the oil and gasoline licences that the Tories have granted.

‘Activists concerned in focusing on MPs can be required to first participate in ‘non-violence’ coaching. We’re dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience within the footsteps of like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and so on and so on.’

A supporter of Just Stop Oil holds a photograph signal of activist Phoebe Plummer

Phoebe Plummer has been concerned in a number of Just Stop Oil protests 

At simply 22 years previous, the prolific protester has been arrested for a string of disturbances 

In a name with one other activist referred to as Alex, the undercover reporter was advised: ‘This subsequent part is a complete departure from the final two or three. The thought is to shift the main focus again to the political enviornment, on to Labour’s hypocrisy and the craven evil of the Conservatives.

‘What that is going to imply might be… bothering politicians, interrupting speeches, interrupting social gathering conferences, and being a bit shouty. Some of this was experimented within the final part – referred to as ‘awake actions’ – so there was carolling exterior Rishi Sunak’s home, at one among his residences. This goes to occur throughout the UK.’

Ms Plummer later despatched the undercover reporter a message saying: ‘Thank you for signing as much as take motion with us’ with a smiley-face emoji. She added: ‘Just wished to verify that you just’re conscious this implies signing as much as danger arrest?’

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated: ‘I give full credit score to The Mail on Sunday’s staff for this good piece of journalism which has uncovered how Just Stop Oil fanatics plan to threaten, intimidate and harass MPs from all events within the run-up to the Election.

‘There will be no quarter given to this militant mob and I’m assured the police will take the mandatory motion to stop any extra of their senseless disruption.’