Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bollinger bolshevik n.

[Bollinger champagne]

one who preaches socialism but espouses a capitalist lifestyle.

[UK]Truth (London) 30 July 104/1: [T]he ‘Bollinger Bolshevik,’ is probably quite happy about the ‘ca-canny’ attitude which is worrying Mr. Morrison so much.
[UK]Coventry Eve. Teleg. 12 Nov. 1/3: ‘It took me back to the old days when Mr. Aneurin Bevan was affectionately known as “the Bollinger Bolshevik”’.
[UK]Sun. Mirror 23 Dec. 11/4: I wish some of our Bollinger Boolshevils would examine this frontier.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Godson 53: Bollinger Bolshie and airwaves bore Adam Pratt accosted him for an interview.
[UK]Guardian 10 Mar. 🌐 Is Ken Follett a champagne socialist? As a long-term Bolly drinker, he says he quite likes the term Bollinger Bolshevik, coined by fellow writer John Mortimer, but would prefer to invent something of his own.