SCRIVEN & THE SECRET SERVICE !

11 March 2009: LETTER FROM TERRY SCRIVEN TO DAVID CAMERON

Dear Mr Cameron,

I write to you on an extremely sensitive issue. Currently, I am the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for New Forest East. My opponent is the Conservative MP Julian Lewis who is also the shadow junior [sic] defence minister for the Navy.

I am aware of some of the background of Julian Lewis before he became a Member of Parliament. However, what has caused me such concern is a recent statement he wrote as his reason for keeping his home addresses secret:

"For many years, both before and after becoming an MP, I have been involved in work against political extremists at home and abroad."

I believe that as Lewis’s political opponent I have the right to know if his claim of involvement in such work, whilst being paid as the MP for New Forest East, is factually correct. If it is, just what activities are these? Who are these political extremists and who has sanctioned such involvement of a sitting MP?

You should be aware that Lewis, out of the whole New Forest electorate of approx 130,000 people, is the only one who is registered on the electoral roll anonymously. It appears his above statement was one of the reasons for such exemption being authorised.

I view this matter extremely seriously and have therefore also written to Jonathan Evans the Director General of Security Services [sic] (MI5), Sir John Scarlett Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Mr Alex Marshall the Chief Constable of Hampshire, in an effort to throw some light on this situation.

Yours sincerely

Terry Scriven

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[NOTE: The contents of this letter – apart from being preposterous in their own right – should be compared with Scriven's e-mail of 11 July 2008 to Dave Yates, the Chief Executive of New Forest District Council, with whom he had raised the question of Julian Lewis's name not appearing on the electoral register. When told it was for reasons of safety, Scriven had replied:

'Your email is very clear. I fully understand the reasons for Julian wishing to keep his private address confidential despite it appearing on the election forms and the agreement that was clearly entered into [with the Electoral Registration Department to use a nom de plume instead]. I am sure both Julian and I understand the need for security.'

A week after giving this assurance to Mr Yates, Scriven was busy conniving with Ben Leapman – the reporter most committed to exposing MPs' home addresses – to try to create a story criticising Julian for the way he had registered to vote. For full details, click here.]

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