Some people might not like either of the leading parties

Governments are generally elected when the candidate with the most votes is selected and so popularity (in votes) is rewarded. This would (might) be the instinctive approach when we want to select the best of something but perhaps we want to not have such an effective government. It might be better for the candidate who gets the least votes to win and then we would have the ability to cast our vote against the person we don’t like. If votes are not counted negatively (whereby the person with the least wins) then we might suffer from the problem of popularity in government. It doesn’t make sense for us to be expected to endorse someone who has the ‘right’ to initiate force against us, by the authorities, it would be more natural that we are expected to reject bad candidates. A government (an authority) that assumes it is liked will see no problem with positive voting, negative voting better allows people to reject politicians.

The problem with Fptp is that we not able to vote tactically enough, rejecting parties because they have no chance of winning is not ‘tactical’ it is obvious and necessary.

It’s not absurd to think that some people might not like either of the leading parties and yet apparently some politicians think that it is.