Meanings of champagne socialist in English

The implication was pretty clear: I was a hypocritical, champagne socialist, stirring up the masses from a position of wealth and privilege.

It revives the suspicion that the circle around Mr Hollande are " champagne socialists".

She has compassion for blue collar workers unlike those ' champagne socialists' you see on television, Havet said.

If anything both were the butt of vague mockery: a former pony-tailed student communist leading a rag-tag band of ex-Trotskyists, Maoists, champagne socialists and greens.