Unholy alliance (politics)
- Unholy alliance (politics)
An unholy alliance is a political or other arrangement whereby individuals or groups of radically opposed orientations co-operate together in particular circumstances on matters of common concern.
The term echoes the "Holy Alliance", a diplomatic alliance between Russia, Austria and Prussia concluded in 1815.
Examples
* The alliance in British politics between right-wing Conservatives and hardline socialists who share an opposition to the European Union. This unholy alliance was highly visible in the EEC referendum of 1975, and can occasionally still be seen today.
* In Northern Irish politics, the common positions on particular issues, such as the continued prohibition of abortion and the level of corporation tax, adopted by the hardline unionist Democratic Unionist Party and the hardline nationalist party Sinn Féin.
* The alliance between right-wing Republicans and liberal Democrats which initially rejected the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in the US House of Representatives.
ee also
* Strange bedfellows
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