A new ‘centrist’ party, backed with £50 million ($64.9 million), promising to be an “alternative to the divisive and extremist politics we see at Westminster,” has embarrassingly lost its CEO and other staff before its launch.

‘United for Change,’ founded by Simon Franks, an entrepreneur and film producer who set up online rental service ‘Lovefilm,’ had been preparing to officially launch as Britain’s newest centrist party next year. That was until Adam Knight, a co-founder of the prospective party and its chief executive, quit the organization along with several members of his staff, to set up a new political outfit.

I must be the only middle-aged white man in Britain not planning to launch his own centrist party in the next few months

— David Osland (@David__Osland) August 31, 2018

There will soon be more centrist parties than centrist voters.

— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) August 31, 2018

The new centrist party has split before it's before it's even been launched. Centrism has gone full-blown People's Front of Judea! Splitters! https://t.co/bNsTXGkn08

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) August 31, 2018

Knight told the Times that despite United for Change sharing the “same diagnosis” as his new organization, coined ‘Twelve Together’ after the number of UK regions, disagreements arose over strategy.

The latest proposed political savior for all “moderates,” which has seemingly run into major difficulties, follows a long list of potential new centrist parties that have never materialized.

https://www.rt.com/uk/437360-new-centrist-party-splits/