Uniparty is used as a term to suggest that ostensibly separate political parties actually function as a single party. It is often used to describe the United States Republican Party and Democratic Party as two faces of a uniparty, though it has also been used in reference to the British Conservative Party and Labour Party. The implication of the term is that despite their public differences, the two parties operate behind closed doors as a single entity, intentionally creating social strife and dividing people between them while pursuing a single secret uniform set of actual goals. It is further supposed that this "uniparty" actively works to suppress any genuine alternatives from arising, using control of the media and ballot access limitations.