Umm, democracy was RESTORED under Orwell? I'll grant you, that's the standard textbook description of the era, and it's true he came to power via an election, and generally allowed freedom for respectable mainstream English opinions, but you really have to overlook some major authoritarian tendencies to view his rule as uncomplicatedly democratic.
In addition to interning not only the remaining Inklings, but also the old-school Chesterbellocians(whose francophilia and Catholicism had rendered them irrelevant anyway), Orwell locked up any Marxists he disagreed with, often for longer stints than the reactionaries.
And that's not even getting into the censorship, eg. banning American crime stories(too sadistic) and exhibits of Salvador Dali's work(because they represented a "diseased" mentality). Not to mention firing civil-servants who used too many Greek or Latin-derived words in their papers.
And of course, for all his uptight petty chauvinism, he found some excuse to exempt the work of his buddy Henry Miller from the general crackdown. Kind of hypocritical, I'd say.