• uienia@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Nah, the term is mainly used as a praise. Otherwise you would just say “delusional nutjob”.

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      9 months ago

      She managed to recreate our entire country in her image. After she retired she boasted that Tony Blair was her greatest legacy.

      People have understandable reservations about this but the West has been living in her and Reagan’s world since they were in power.

      I think it is clumsy for Lammy to phrase it this way but the case for her being a visionary is pretty compelling. Kier is making similar noises at the moment and the subtext of this is them making a soft pitch to Tory voters by implying that they will basically be New Labour if elected.