I disagree, I believe that both have well-intentioned people both amongst supporters and candidates. Many of these feel disenfranchised by the CPC and LPC, and have opposing interests and preferences which would otherwise go unheard.

But FPTP frames the voting process as a zero-sum game. In the current system they are incentivized to either abandon hope in an alternative to these or split the vote. They didn’t create the system to be how it is, and they both would very much prefer the system to be different.

So I reject the casual and dismissive nature of your reply here. May is using a cynical political calculus here to get what she wants — and it feels wrong to blame her for this in isolation when you can find the same types of behaviour from other leaders. Hell, even how Carney removed a carbon pricing policy that he assuredly still knew was the best policy — something I just endorsed in the parent comment — is the same sort of political calculus.

Do I wish that May wouldn’t be disengenous here for short-term political gains? Yes. Do I wish that Singh wouldn’t regurgitate CPC talking points he knows to be false? Again, yes. I hate that they are doing this, but it’s not because they are part of some conspiracy it’s because that’s what I assume they feel is the necessary evil to advance the causes they believe in.

TLDR can we just fucking kill FPTP please for just about anything else?