Prosecco Progressive

The term “champagne socialist” is sometimes replaced with “prosecco progressive” or “prosecco populist.” Prosecco is a white wine.
   
“Think the term ‘Champagne Socialist’ is too dated. What we have now are ‘Prosecco Progressives’ dominating metropolitan media” was posted on X/Twitter by Guido Fawkes on May 11, 2011. “champagne socialists and prosecco progressives” was posted on X/Twitter by Peter Franklin 🌳 on January 1, 2014. “We have had champagne socialists, bollinger Bolsheviks & now I’ve just seen one arsehole on twitter call himself a prosecco progressive. FFS” was posted on X/Twitter by GrumpyByName on January 13, 2014. “Rioja Reformers, Prosecco Progressives & Cava Communists unite” was posted on X/Twitter by Naomi SMith on March 5, 2014.
   
“I think you’ll find that prosecco populist is the correct term!” was posted on X/Twitter by Rob Talbot on April 28, 2018. “I think champagne socialists have given way to prosecco populists. Not necessarily a good thing” was posted on X/Twitter by Kevin Rowlands on December 27, 2020. “I just heard David Brooks refer to Marjorie Taylor Green as a ‘prosecco populist’ and I love it (she’s flying first-class to Italy for vacation right now)” was posted on X/Twitter by Calamity Sane on September 17, 2021.
   
   
Wikipedia: Champagne socialist
Champagne socialist is a political term commonly used in the United Kingdom. It is a popular epithet that implies a degree of hypocrisy, and it is closely related to the concept of the liberal elite. The phrase is used to describe self-identified anarchists, communists, and socialists whose luxurious lifestyles, metonymically including consumption of champagne, are ostensibly in conflict with their political beliefs.
 
Wikipedia: Prosecco
Prosecco (/prəˈsɛkoʊ, proʊ-/, Italian: [proˈsekko]) is an Italian DOC or DOCG white wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions, and named after the village of Prosecco, in the province of Trieste, Italy. It is made from the Prosecco grape (renamed “Glera” in Italy in 2009), but denomination rules allow up to 15% of the wine to be other permitted varieties. Prosecco is almost always made in sparkling or semi-sparkling style (spumante and frizzante, respectively), but a still wine (tranquillo) is also permitted.
 
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9 other terms for prosecco progressives- words and phrases with similar meaning
 
champagne socialists
bubbly bubbly socialists
bubbly pinkos
bubbly socialists
caviar leftists
effervescent socialist elites
fizzing champagne left
limousine liberals
sparkling social democrats
 
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Guido Fawkes
@GuidoFawkes
Think the term “Champagne Socialist” is too dated. What we have now are “Prosecco Progressives” dominating metropolitan media.
3:21 AM · May 11, 2011
     
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Shona Johnstone
@ShonaFJ
@GuidoFawkes Quite like the idea of being a Prosecco Progressive - sounds much more understated than. champagne socialist
3:49 AM · May 11, 2011
 
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Peter Franklin 🌳
@peterfranklin_
.@timothy_stanley champagne socialists and prosecco progressives
6:15 PM · Jan 1, 2014
     
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GrumpyByName 🇮🇱
@LessGrumpy
We have had champagne socialists, bollinger Bolsheviks & now I’ve just seen one arsehole on twitter call himself a prosecco progressive. FFS
10:55 AM · Jan 13, 2014
 
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Naomi Smith
@pimlicat
@prateekbuch @alexhern @charlotteahenry Rioja Reformers, Prosecco Progressives & Cava Communists unite   :-D
9:22 AM · Mar 5, 2014
 
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Rhys Goode
@rhys_goode
OMG! @RichardAngell just stole my line! “Prosecco Progressives” - I’m totes big time now!
4:21 PM · Mar 15, 2014 from South Kesteven, England
     
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Hopi Sen
@hopisen
.@jreedmp DavidPrescott I’m not a champagne socialist. I’m a prosecco progressive. More affordable and sweeter.
4:53 PM · Apr 30, 2014
 
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Tony Quintus 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
@MisterQuintus
You’ve heard of Champagne Socialists, these are Prosecco Progressives, their only real care is how well THEY live #VoteLeave
9:33 PM · Jun 22, 2016
     
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Bernadette Young
@BugsBernadette
Gone and joined #Labour. I don’t want to be a champagne socialist, but can I be a prosecco progressive?
9:18 AM · Jul 1, 2016
 
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Ben Procter
@BenProcter
So we have the Champagne Socialists and now the Prosecco Progressives… Have I missed anyone?
12:51 PM · Apr 21, 2017
 
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robert’s rules bitch, esq.
@realjdkhaled
Champagne socialist? What about prosecco progressives?
4:35 PM · Apr 24, 2018
     
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Rob Talbot
@RobTTalbot
I think you’ll find that prosecco populist is the correct term!
1:00 PM · Apr 28, 2018
 
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CarnivalSeb
@CarnivalSeb
It thought it was ‘champagne socialists’ & ‘latte liberals’.
Mix the two & you mess up the alliteration.
I can defs get on the ‘prosecco progressives’ train.
10:52 PM · Apr 18, 2019
     
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Matt Arnott
@MattFingersArni
I thought you might say Prosecco or Cava.
A Prosecco Progressive, is the new champagne socialist.
7:17 AM · Dec 30, 2019
 
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Klee-Ann-Uh
@treegriever
It’s 2020. You’ve heard of champagne socialists. Now introducing Prosecco progressives.
11:31 AM · Mar 5, 2020
 
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Matt Arnott
@MattFingersArni
He was a champagne socialist but then he defected to the Prosecco Progressives last year.
They’re too woke, and sneer at us Real Ale Radicals.
7:07 AM · May 29, 2020
 
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Merge Gitson
@MergeGitson
Prosecco Progressives, Limousine Libs, and Champagne Communists always fall for this diversion whenever Trump wants to distract from controversial public policy discussions.
3:27 AM · Aug 18, 2020
     
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@MerryHell_band
Prosecco Populists https://t.co/wNDgoigMW8
7:44 PM · Dec 23, 2020
   
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Kevin Rowlands
@c21st_sailor
I think champagne socialists have given way to prosecco populists. Not necessarily a good thing.
8:34 AM · Dec 27, 2020
 
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elleemcee
@AdamsMama_co
We’ve asked you a million times to call us the Prosecco Progressives or the Rosé Anti-Racists… Are you having trouble with dementia in your old age?
6:26 PM · May 27, 2021
   
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Arnie B
@arnie_booth
Are you more of a prosecco progressive or a champagne socialist or a bitter brexiter.
4:31 PM · Sep 16, 2021 from Oldham, England
   
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Calamity Sane is giffyloop on Threads
@GIFfyLoop
I just heard David Brooks refer to Marjorie Taylor Green as a “prosecco populist” and I love it (she’s flying first-class to Italy for vacation right now).
8:43 PM · Sep 17, 2021
 
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@evcricket@mastodon.social
@evcricket
I really like the phrase “prosecco progressives”
4:31 PM · Oct 6, 2021
         
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Laura
@runtokeepup
So the party that accused labour of being champagne socialist turned out to be a pound shop version Prosecco populists Rishi Sunak levelling down…
4:39 PM · Oct 27, 2021
 
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦
@DuncanStott
Move over Champagne Socialists,
here are the Prosecco Populists.
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Greg Barradale
@GregBarradale
Jan 17, 2022
🚨 Exclusive 🚨
Home Office staff ‘mingled and drank prosecco’ during lockdown
Priti Patel has said she’d call the police if her neighbours were breaking rules
But in March 2021 around a dozen staff mingled and drank to celebrate leading the news at 6
https://bigissue.com/news/politics/exclusive-home-office-staff-mingled-and-drank-prosecco-during-lockdown/
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1:42 PM · Jan 17, 2022
 
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SHAN!
@constantlyshan
unfortunately i can’t afford to be a champagne socialist, so right now i’m more of a prosecco progressive
2:24 PM · Jul 26, 2022
   
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Camilla paul bowles
@PhantomoftheD
Prosecco populist is a more affordable alternative
5:17 PM · Aug 13, 2022
 
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Zerene Catacutan ᜐᜒᜇᜒᜈ᜔ ᜃᜆᜃᜓᜆᜈ᜔
@ZereneJoy
Learned the term “prosecco progressives” in @antoinette_news’ latest book & honestly reactions to #QueenElizabethII the last fortnight has REALLY shown me how white so-called progressives suddenly change to a neutral tune when their colonial history & privilege gets clocked 🧐
5:47 PM · Sep 19, 2022
     
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Mr Ben Ltd
@Ben_Fieldhouse
I’d rather be a champagne socialist, than a Prosecco populist, like a lot of 2019 Tory voters and daily Mail readers
7:08 PM · Nov 18, 2023
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Ceri Cunningham
@CeriAnne65
Surely ‘Bollinger Bolsheviks’. I’d like to be one but I’m going to have to settle for being a ‘Prosecco Progressive’ 😉
4:57 AM · Jul 1, 2024