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I caught 'Guido Fawkes' aka Paul Staines vastly inflating his traffic figures and appropriating content without permission.

This was back when he was bankrupt but somehow funding his growing tabloid project AND founding the company MessageSpace. Conman.

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Paul Staines aka Guido Fawkes is also the kind of person who will exploit racism for political gain, and he has always been this way. In 1986 he proposed a secret alliance with the BNP to disrupt leftist meetings. Staines claims there is a retraction for this story: that's a lie.

'Guido' lost his rag with me one day when he threatened legal action, but I didn't blink and he had to fold.

Paul Staines vowed to me in one call that he would tell everyone in Westminster I was a nutter, and it turns out he busied himself with this task for quite some time.

You'll note Paul Staines is not here raising hell. He avoids me unless he thinks he has the upper hand and a mob on his side.

'Guido' once published a libel against me, thought better of it, and immediately replaced it with a libel that would be harder to action. Total coward.

I once had a fundamentalist Christian having a meltdown after being caught up in a sock-puppeting scheme. Who should call her out of the blue for moral support but good old Guido offering her advice on handling me, telling her to 'be more controversial'.

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Paul Staines has never been anything more than a far-right propagandist posing as a pioneer in media who believed in freedom of speech.

Sure, 'Guido' has 'gone after Tories' but never his mates, only those who got in the way of him & his mates. Now his mates are the government.

"Paul Staines takes all sorts of cheap shots at the other parties (more on this below), but at the same time, he also seeks to bend and shape the Conservative party to his will."

I said that. 13 years ago.

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#GuidoFawkes

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Oh, and if you want to enrage Paul Staines aka 'Guido Fawkes', then call him out on his racism. It's a sore spot for him.

He *hates* being called a racist, but personally I've always had him pegged as something worse, because he knows better, yet still exploits racism for gain.

Considering what he does for a living, it's hilarious Paul Staines chooses to distance his main account (@PaulDelSta) and himself from his character-assassinations.

It reveals what some of us have known all along: 'Guido Fawkes' is the work of a coward who hides behind a mask.

How many times have you seen Paul Staines invading someone's privacy on one false premise or another? He once claimed to be delivering a writ. That was yet another lie.

But he wants his 'personal space' on Twitter where he's above criticism? He'd savage a lefty MP who did that.

From behind the Guido mask he will pretend that he adores the attention, but the moment you turn the spotlight on Paul Staines and his propaganda operation (see: MessageSpace especially), the gloves are off and he 'Crazy Ivans' between savage attack and pretence at victim status.