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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Macron's party won shortly after formation because of voter objection to the main parties; in Israel the Kadima party was formed in 2005 and won elections in 2006.
Voter displeasure with the political class will always be expressed at the ballot box when the opportunity arises.
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Both of those cases were elections held using systems that offer proportionality to some degree or other. That allows new parties to get a foothold and it also allows voters the confidence to know if they vote for the upstart it is not a wasted vote.
Our electoral system was designed for a two-party House of Commons, and while we may no longer have two parties nationally, three-way marginals at a constituency level are comparatively rare. Generally, voters in each constituency, if they want their vote to count, either support the incumbent or the previous party to hold the seat. Change happens, but is slow (my local Westminster seat, over the last 25 years, has gone Tory, Labour, SNP, and back to Tory - that is not the common experience in the UK, even discounting the SNP).
British electors are sophisticated - some of the most sophisticated in the world. They know how the system works and for the most part they vote to maximise their potential benefit within it. Disruptive newcomers, as happened in Israel and France, just can't have that effect here. If they could, UKIP would have had a clutch of seats in every election over the last 10 years.