In other words, the
notion that “Cameron cut the EU Budget” is absolute baloney. And yet such
characters as Lynton Crosby and Sajid Javid, and no doubt a high proportion of
the Conservative Party membership, believe it to be true! (In my work I often
use the word “factoid” to refer to spurious but much mentioned assertions.
Wikipedia cites the Compact Oxford English
Dictionary definition
of a factoid
as "an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes
accepted as fact". Cameron’s alleged cost-cutting rigour with the EU is a
classic factoid.)
