Just Stop Oil poster girl bungles letter stunt by failing to find Labour frontbencher’s house
A Just Stop Oil “poster girl” who tried to post a letter to a Labour frontbencher as part of a campaign stunt bungled by delivering it to the wrong address - in the wrong London borough.
The group warned Wes Streeting, the shadow health and social care secretary, they would be calling at his home on Wednesday with a letter calling on him to quit Labour if it failed in government to cancel all oil and gas licences granted by the Tories since 2022.
At about 3.15pm, video posted on X, formerly Twitter, showed Phoebe Plummer, who became one of the group’s most famous faces when she threw soup over a Van Gogh painting, walking down a road carrying a letter.
The post read: “Metropolitan Police you’re losing your touch. Phoebe broke bail today delivering a letter to Wes Streeting, despite being arrested twice for delivering letters before. What’s going on?”
In the video, Ms Plummer says: “Should I go hand myself in for breaking bail? That seems pretty harmless, but it was worth arresting me for last time.”
But Mr Streeting, the MP for Ilford North, replied to the climate activist to point out that not only had she delivered the letter to the wrong address, but she was not even in the right area.
He wrote: “I don’t know which poor sod got your letter, but that isn’t my house. If you want to write to me, you can do so quite easily via Parliament or my constituency office. Constituents can also visit my surgeries.”
He added: “It isn’t even my borough.”
Just Stop Oil then acknowledged its gaffe and asked the homeowner who received the letter to forward it to Mr Streeting.
The incident follows a string of similar stunts in recent weeks in which JSO has targeted Labour politicians.
Ms Plummer was arrested outside the home of Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney general, on March 14 after posting a letter through the Labour MP’s letterbox.
Footage showed the privately educated 22-year-old taunting police and telling them she is breaching bail conditions by delivering mail to an MP’s house.
She was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle and of sending malicious communication and hauled into the back of a police van.
The Metropolitan Police was contacted for comment.
