And just which of these elements would he be most unhappy with??? I frankly believe that - while he may well have disapproved of the alleged infighting of those whom you refer to as opositionalist - he would have considered the so-called "New Labour project" alien to the Labour movement - which, of course, it is!

Orwell was a Socialist and would most certainly have opposed the creeping privatisation and cuts imposed by the New Labour government. As you know, Orwell wrote for Tribune - the "oppositionalist" Labour Left of his time - and, again, was a Socialist who, if he engagement with the paper in question is to be taken seriously, would most certainly have advocated the nationalisation of, at least, the "commanding heights" of the economy - as Bevanites (the Tribunites of the day) did back then!

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