I always took the view that to do so was dangerous self-delusion.
In the hands of an ambitious politician, it gives rise to self-delusion, followed by deceit, ending up in catastrophe.
We must remember that it is the credibility outside that matters and not the self-delusion in which we engage inside.
It was nothing of the sort; that summit was an exercise in self-delusion.
I think that there is some deception and self-delusion in the matter.
Is it an attempt at self-delusion, a pretence that inflation has not taken place since the war?
It is difficult to imagine such a process of self-delusion and mental obliquity.
The self-delusion in question is that we think we have succeeded in setting up the internal market.
