The Republic of Great Britain is the brainchild of the Labour Party. After the British Empire's defeat in the Great War, discontent with the standing government exploded into a series of rebellions and, eventually, a revolution. When the royal family fled for Canada, Labour formed a coalition to stabilise the country. In opposition stood the Democratic-Leninists, emboldened by Vladimir Lenin's outstanding successes in the former Russian Empire and radicalised by their country's defeat. Mosley's British Union of Fascists proved to be an ever stronger foe. A political conflict followed, in which the new "British Socialists" emerged victorious.
However, Labour was never revolutionary in their theory, much less in their praxis. The development of British Socialism has been methodical, pragmatic and of a methodical manner, characterised by individualism and democracy. This led to an increasingly widening rift with the Soviets as Trotsky's and Mao's regimes consolidated, and a realignment with the liberal west followed. The Second World War led to Britain joining the Allied Forces, and later NATO. Today it stands strong as one of Europe's great powers and an important western ally.