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“Go look up ‘Champagne Socialist.’”

Sheen told the Observer he was ready to be criticised for being “a champagne socialist” who campaigns on social issues, as long as he can still make a practical difference.

“There’s a level of scrutiny you come under as a politician, and luckily I don’t get that. But if someone’s setting out to do what I do, as an activist, scrutiny is actually the right thing. I don’t really mind what people say about me. If people are critical of my motives or call me a champagne socialist or something like that, it doesn’t matter.”

“I’m an old fashioned liberal lefty, champagne socialist type of guy,” he wrote in January after similar comments drew backlash.

I was literally a champagne socialist.