It needs also to be added that there is a large element of self-delusion.
The scale of self-delusion in relation to historic voting alignments is noteworthy indeed.
But that does not mean we must inevitably fall prey to blatant self-delusion.
Anything else is simply a form of self-delusion resting on values derived from a different, and inappropriate, part of the lifecourse.
First, it seemed to me that his speech again showed all the spasms of self-delusion and complacency to which we have become so accustomed.
Those who argue that the pound should be revalued are indulging in an exercise of self-delusion on a grand scale.
In referring to the claims made by internationalists he spoke of "sentimentality and self-delusion".
The self-delusion in question is that we think we have succeeded in setting up the internal market.
