Orwell considered himself a Socialist. If you have any doubt read The Road to Wigan Pier. He was though a socialist in a time when most of the working class in England were underpaid and worked in horrible unsafe conditions. Really he was a decent man who wanted his countrymen to be treated well and for them to have some hope in life.
He lived amongst the poor of Britain for well over a year and lived the lives that they lived so he knew what he was talking about.
Even todays Liberals make him look decidedly middle of the road to right-wing.
Mel
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein
And Paris too, and chronicled it in one of the best books I have ever read (many of which were also written by Orwell).