Champagne Socialist

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A "champagne socialist" is a pejorative political term originating in the United Kingdom. The phrase is used to describe a Labour Party politician, or other Socialist self-proclaimed advocate of the poor or working classes, who claims to support a form of socialist ideology, but who might disregard socialist ideals in their daily life. Champagne Socialists may claim to be against the Capitalist system but will still happily function in it and prosper from it. The term is sometimes used as an attack by opposing politicians to portray and ridicule their opponents as hypocritical.... Mehr