DAMIAN GREEN: Do adultery websites and conspiracy to leak arrests suggest he’s the man for the job?

Last August, emails leaked from adultery website Ashley Madison were released online by FOI group Impact, who are keen on revealing ‘cheating dirtbags’. Among them was the private email address of Damian Green.

Mr Green I’m so Clean denied having anything to do with it, claiming that it might be “an old AOL address” he never uses any more.

But a couple of the established facts remain uncomfortable for the new Minister for Mugging Pensioners.

1. The IP address was from a genuine  Parliamentary computer in 2007 to register with the cheaters’ site.
2. One of the security questions was Mr Green’s mother’s maiden name – spelt correctly.

The user profile gushed, “I would love to meet and pamper a bright sassy woman who knows what she wants and how to get it. I’m looking for some NSA [no strings attached] fun with a woman who has sparkling eyes, a lively sense of fun and an ache for some really good sex.”

Oh blimey, here we go again.

Perhaps – perhaps not: it could well be that Green’s details were harvested by ID scammers. But if so, what was an ID scammer doing with physical access to a Secretary of State’s Commons computer? One for MI6, maybe? It’d be good to know.

In November 2009, while in Opposition, Green was arrested and held by the Metropolitan Police for nine hours. His offices in Kent, the Houses of Parliament and his home were also searched. The police said they arrested Mr Green on suspicion of “conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office” and “aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in a public office”.

Damian Green is a former journalist, so he would have had form in that area. A junior Home Ofice official, Christopher Galley, passed on information to Mr Green, having been arrested ten days earlier. It appears that neither man denied the charge, and the HoC enquiry did say later that Home Office pinched goblins had “exaggerated” the seriousness of the leaked information.

But clearly, Green was trying to gain political advantage from the leaks; and he remains the only MP in British history to have been arrested on such a charge. Equally odd, we’ve never been told what the leaks were about. However, I was told at the time that the leak involved real levels of UK immigration.

But not at all odd is the fact that the CPS didn’t prosecute either man, and the whole affair faded gently away into the ether of privilege. Well I never.

While Those Who Will Not See are almost certainly poised to lick Green all over and beg politely for some gruel from the trough, for real destitute SPA victims, this appointment is not a cause for celebration. Rather, it’s just another bullet-headed bloke who always votes the way he’s told.

The Waspis continue to win hearts. But at the same time, they are losing patience with a Government that can’t discern the wind direction….and a leader who seems more concerned with internal security obsessions than external results.