Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nonsense, rubbish; use also extended as a general negative.

1998		Guardian Sport 23 Oct. 16: There goes the Sun again, printing four pages of bobbins.
1999		Guardian 26 Nov. 37: There’s bobbins sign of the great Tackle work.
2000		Indep. Rev. 8 June 111: The Beatles were bobbins.