Lobster Blogster

Lobster Blogster's recent claim that Paul Staines is the Internet's biggest liar was well received by the recently formed Liberal Conspiracy. Probably Staines himself, who can never resist boosting his own self-image, was secretly pleased by the superlative too.

However Staines now seems to be fashioning himself as an Irish Supremacist, with this curious post centred around a book title. Conveniently over-looking the fact that St Patrick was an English missionary, Staines alludes to the notion that only the Irish can save Europe from "the bureaucrats". Staines was first tarred by the racist brush back in May 1996, when he tried to form a link between his branch of the Federation of Conservative Students and the British National Party.

You can read the original Guardian article in full here. Contrary to any assertion by Staines or his bogus publishing company, the article was never withdrawn by the paper, and is freely available at the British Library Newspapers Collection in Collingdale.




Festive Greetings!
Blogging is likely to be a bit light here at Lobster Blogster what with various Winterval events coming up, and even a wedding in Bath. Do tune back in the New Year, or maybe the Spring Equinox if you want to read about more wacky goings on at Watford Borough Council, or even further afield. If you want to get in touch before then, you can always try "mipela lawyerman", but do allow for local tides. Adios amigos!

Етикети: BNP, Guido, Paul Delaire Staines

The big debate over a wikipedia at the moment is whether Paul Staines, the internet's biggest liar, has libelled himself. Apparently all those nutjob pamphlets he wrote, were written by someone else. Presumably this was another Paul Staines when he was off his nuts on acid.

Amazingly Lobster Blogster has found one sound reference for Staines' seminal work:

Staines, Paul. 1989. In the Grip of the Sandinistas: Human Rights in Nicaragua 1979-1989 Washington, D.C.: International Society for Human Rights.

Here at Louisiana State University.

Needless to say, the Lobster BSc Bristol 1984, has got in touch with the Louisiana State University to ask them to check the shelves of their library. The Lobster however believes it is very unlikely that Staines' later became the "UK secretary-general of the International Society for Human Rights and editor of Human Rights Briefing". In fact I nearly wet myself laughing when I read it. Staines himself has one well thumbed copy, but sadly Amazon says it is out of stock. An interesting feature of Amazon is that anyone can log in and edit the details of books. Perhaps the former Secretary General can find time in his busy schedule to log in and put in some valid ISBN numbers? My local library can find almost any book, but Staines' work defeated them.

Just time for a couple of quick notes:
The Lobster has led some silly lawyers a merry dance the last couple of days. When you've finished billing your clients, do remember to pop along to the IT department, and ask the what an ISP footprint might look like. I think you'll find that the chambers of Leolin Price CBE QC has got quite a big one. Do feel free to take a peek at Lobster Blogster from time to time, but I'm not sure you should be spending quite so much time blogging during working hours. Unless of course you just happen to be working for a silly man who dreams of power without responsibility, or his idiot mate.

Having mentioned the alma mater, I couldn't resist a quick: "Vidal says hi". If the apostles are still worshipping, it would be nice to catch up with you again. Happy blogging!

Етикети: Guido, Paul Delaire Staines

Oh dear, the Lobster has been at it again!

Not only has Lobster Blogster claimed that Iain Dale is a fraudster and a hypocrite, now I've gone and called him irresponsible, and on his home patch too.

Then the Lobster decided to take on Dale's top blogging mate, Paul Staines. Staines spectacularly failed at college, then went on to create a fantasy political and financial career. It was the news that Michael White was to take on Staines, with Recess Monkey as the ringmaster that caused the Lobster to let slip his encyclopedic knowledge of Staines' career.

But isn't the real point about Dale, as he seeks the Tory nomination for the Maidstone constituency, that he has poor judgement? Dale has repeatedly heaped plaudits upon Staines, and has even co-authored a couple of books with him. But Staines proudest boast seems to be lying to the Tories at conference:

"I know this to be completely untrue because I made up this explanation at a press conference held to launch the Freedom to Party Campaign at the Conservative Party conference in October 1989."

and

"This, incidentally, is the most successful lie I have ever told."

You can wonder what attributes the Tories do look for when they choose their candidates, but do you really think they want someone whose proudest claim is my mate is the internet's biggest liar?

Етикети: BNP, Guido, Iain Dale, Paul Delaire Staines

Oh dear! The lobster seems to be in trouble again. Now it's with Wikipedia. Lobster Blogster's efforts to update one or two bits seem to have resulted in an indefinate ban being put upon him. It seems that by linking the name Paul Delaire Staines to the BNP one or two other wikipedians see it as problematic. Never mind, worse things happen at sea.

It could well be time to go and find a safe rock to crawl under...
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UPDATE 1.
The rock duly arrived in the form of needing to reboot the
lobster's modem. Probably some sand or a bit of seaweed got
caught in the cogs. The problem seems to have fixed itself now,
and as a by-product the lobster gets a new IP address. So its
straight back into Wikipedia to cause more mayhem there. Has
anyone worked out who Lobster Blogster's latest wikipedia
sock-puppet is yet?

A prize for anyone who enters the correct name in the comments
below! :o)

Етикети: BNP, Paul Delaire Staines, Wikipedia, zorb it up

EXCLUSIVE: that Guardian article they are all talking about.
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Update 1. Monday (Понеделник) 5th March (Март) 2007
The battle still rages on Wikipedia to get quotes from this article added onto the Paul Staines page. See here for the current page, and here for the discussion. Tip check out the history to see how several users are battling hard to whitewash Staines' past cleaner than clean!
Update 2. Wednesday (Четвъвтък) 22 March (Март) 2007
Iain "Arfur" Daley has allowed a discussion about the Staines/BNP link on this post. This should help to settle a few nerves of people who believe that by linking to a libellous story, they might also be commiting libel. It's nonsense of course (something which Staines is an expert at inventing). It's akin to saying that if your newspaper commits a libel, you are repeating that libel when you read the libellous article. Don't worry you're not. I'm just giving you an example.

Having proved one point that linking a blog to defamatory material is not in itself defamatory, it is now incumbent upon the lobster to demostrate his major point, that the Guardian 1986 DID NOT libel Paul Delaire Staines. Keep watching this space for further updates.

Етикети: Guardian, Paul Delaire Staines, Wikipedia