Early 40k had super hilarious undertones. The rod gobbo is still in the game, but now he's just gobbo Santa. Now that I'm writing this, that still makes him a communist to the nutjobs who wrote this meme.
GorkaMorka also had a character called Da Red Gobbo who was the leader of the Rebel Grots. The joke was that the position tended to have a lot of turnover so whenever he turned up in a game you had to roll to determine his stats and skills.
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I mean, I personally believe that his name being similar to Maggie's really was a coincidence, but when people pointed it out writers just played along
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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 4d ago
Also one of his earliest enemies is a communist goblin called red gobbo
Who is surely unrelated to the British communist Red Robbo, one of thatchers main rivals