People's Alliance

The People's Alliance is a right-wing and conservative party in the Franco-British Union, and has been the ruling party since the beginning of the Cold War. The PA is often considered to be a big tent "party of power", straddling the line between party and electoral coalition with its myriad internal factions. Formed in 1949 by British and French conservatives to serve as a political alliance in the recently-formed Union, the party soon began to diversify, bringing social liberals and even right-wing social democrats into its fold. However, the party also includes large groups of hardliners, such as national conservatives and militarists known as "lion conservatives". The People's Alliance today is largely united by its desire to preserve the British and French states and free market capitalism.

History
Formed in 1949, the People's Alliance first won power in the 1950 General Election and has been in government ever since.

Democratic Unionists
The Democratic Unionists (French: Unionistes démocratique) are considered to be one of the two largest factions of the PA, along with the People's Progressive Union. It is considered to be the main party of the "lion conservatives", with a militaristic outlook on foreign policy in the name of fighting communism, and is also supportive of building up the security state and law enforcement institutions. They tend to have a broadly conservative social outlook, but tend not to be openly reactionary, instead tending to be in favour of the status quo, believing it to be the key to social cohesion and stability. Economically, they support the managerial and de facto corporatist approach that has been the status quo in Franco-British society during the PA's decades in power. They are also influenced by Keynesian economics, but unlike most Keynesians, they consider the best way to put those ideas into practice to be to increase investment in military equipment and infrastructure.

People's Progressive Union
The People's Progressive Union was formed in 2010 under Anthony Blair, as a merger of PEOPLE and the Union for Progress. It is considered to be today to be PA's other main faction, inheriting that status from the Union for Progress. The PPU are supportive of reformism, "green capitalism" and a more dentente-oriented foreign policy stance, and are nicknamed the "Unicorns" in comparison to DU's "Lions". They tend towards a liberal cultural stance, and are supportive of economic regulations while maintaining the broader capitalist economic system. They are popular among the liberal middle class, "patriotic" (PA-aligned) trade unions and right-leaning environmentalists.

Patriotic Unionist Group
The Patriotic Unionist Group (French: Groupe patriotique unioniste) is the furthest right of the main PA factions, and distinguishes itself based on its monarchist stance. They were initially formed by former members of the far-right French monarchist group Action Française seeking political rehabilitation following World War II, and were soon bolstered by traditionalist conservative "High Tories" from the UK Conservative Party.

Association of Radicals and Liberals
The Association of Radicals and Liberals was formed by former members of the UK Liberal Party and the French Radical-Socialist and is home to both social and economic liberals, and views itself as occupying a "radical centrist" position between the two major factions. They tend to have a more doveish-leaning foreign policy stance, and is viewed as significantly more moderate than the radically market liberal Liberty. Former Prime Minister Christine Lagarde belongs to this faction.

Union for Progress
The Union for Progress (French: L’Union pour le Progrès) was the larger of the two predecessors to the PPU. At the time of its existence, they were considered to be one of the "Big Two" factions alongside the Democratic Unionists. The UfP tended towards reformism and social liberalism, and favoured a more detente-oriented foreign policy, positions that were inherited in the PPU. However, for a long time, the UfP failed to emphasize environmentalism in the way PEOPLE and the PPU did/would, partly in order to appeal to miners. They were initially formed from the right-wing factions of the Labour Party who defected to the PA in the early 1960s, and merged with PEOPLE in 2010.

PEOPLE
PEOPLE was founded in 1972 by a group of PA politicians wishing to focus more on environmental conservation. It merged with the UfP in 2010.