The middle-class zealots who'll make Monday a misery for millions with eco-activist group planning to bring chaos to Britain Reporter Holly Bancroft went undercover to infiltrate the Extinction Rebellion She found the eco group (XR) are intending to paralyse London this week One of the XR leaders is failed organic farmer and PhD student Roger Hallam Hallam said if necessary his XR protesters 'should be willing to die' for the causeBy Holly Bancroft For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:20 BST, 13 April 2019 | Updated: 08:36 BST, 14 April 2019 13 shares 1 Viewcomments The most prominent – and radical – of the XR leaders is failed organic farmer and PhD student Roger Hallam. After years in a succession of Left-wing groups, the 52-year-old says the 'name of the game' for XR is to 'bring down all the regimes in the world and replace them'. Hallam says paralysing traffic will eventually cause food shortages and trigger uprisings. In a recent interview, he said XR protesters should be ready to cause disruption through personal 'sacrifice'. If necessary, they 'should be willing to die'. The most prominent – and radical – of the XR leaders is failed organic farmer and PhD student Roger Hallam (left). XR co-founder Stuart Basden (right), 36, is a middle-class writer from Bristol XR co-founder Stuart Basden, 36, a middle-class writer from Bristol (above), has goals that go way beyond a desire to curb global warming. Indeed, he has claimed: 'XR isn't about the climate. You see, the climate's breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life.' Basden has urged XR followers to embrace going to prison – where he spent a week after defacing London's City Hall with spray paint last year – saying it is 'a bit like boarding school' Tasmin Osmond, 35, is a veteran of 'direct actions' Tasmin Osmond, 35, is a veteran of 'direct actions' which had little to do with climate change, such as Occupy London, the poverty protest which set up a camp outside St Paul's cathedral in 2011. The granddaughter of Dorset baronet Sir Thomas Lees, Omond (above) went to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read English. She was thrown out of anti-aviation group Plane Stupid after saying the green movement 'brand' was 'unwashed, unshaven and up a tree', and this 'doesn't represent me'. George Barda, 43, believes the 'Criminal UK Government' is to blame for climate change. A post-graduate student at prestigious King's College in London, the son of classical music and stage photographer Clive Barda still finds time to be a dedicated revolutionary and camped outside St Paul's cathedral in the Occupy London campaign. Today, Barda (above) is a director of XR parent company Compassionate Revolution and regularly appears on Russia Today, Russia's controversial British TV channel. Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility