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Reflecting upon the reaction to this tweet. Large numbers of folk claimed the idea we might vote not on the basis of our individual interest but instead on the basis of the long-term interests of our country & of those elsewhere in the world our country wld serve was deranged.+
+It's interesting to ponder why this so upset folk. It surely can't be that they think voting for reasons other than one's personal short-term interests is deranged. After all, lots of folk vote based on how they think the govt will deal with the old or poor or foreign wars.+
+They also can't really have thought there was something odd about thinking of the country's long-term interests as opposed to the next few years. They might disagree with this prioritization, but it couldn't really be described as deranged.+
+No. What I think enraged them was the idea Britain cld matter that much - that its impact on the world, on the as-yet-unborn, on those in other countries cld be significant enough to justify short-term costs. They're convinced we're small & irrelevant & it's mad to say otherwise
