Criminal communists colonise country: Eddie Hobbs

Wed 21 Oct, 2009

What’s the weather like on planet Hobbs?

Cork’s favourite son, magazine salesman Eddie Hobbs appears to be kept up at night tossing and turning at the thought that Paul Mattick is out to get him.

Speaking to Newstalk radio today, the South Bandon slasher ranted about the “ultra left” leadership of trade unions as if Ireland’s unions were stuffed with Bordigists and not bureaucrats. Happily Eddie doesn’t want to see protests banned – the people have a right to express their anger, he said. Grand stuff. Eddie and the union leadership can at least agree on something: these days protests about job losses and wage cuts are more like massive group therapy sessions than coherent demands from workers.

The award-winning author of ‘LOOT!’ went on to compare trade unionists to white Afrikaners in South Africa and “ultra unionists” in the North. Ne plus ultra, eh Eddie?

Times is tough, to be sure, but maybe if we had a whip round we could get Eddie some valium. Or perhaps a newspaper.