I don't think he was a socialist at all. If anything he dispised them
check out this quote.... "As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
The first thing that must strike any outside observer is that Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. This last type is surprisingly common in Socialist parties of every shade; it has perhaps been taken over en bloc from the old Liberal Party. In addition to this there is the horrible?-the really disquieting?-prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ?Socialism? and ?Communism? draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ?Nature Cure? quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."
http://www.orwelltoday.com/wiganpier.shtml
clearly, Orwell thought socialists and probably if he saw australian labor voters he would have thought they were fakes.
Not of the working class and would run a mile if they met one.
