Fact and fiction in EU booklet

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Have you received the Electoral Commission leaflet for the referendum?

I’ve just taken a close look at the Leave page and come up with these corrections:

1. Fiction: EU law controls UK migration. Fact: migration from the rest of the world (more than half of people who stay more than six months) is entirely in our hands.

2. Turkey is in the process of joining the EU. True, but many years after first applying Turkey has achieved only 1 of 30 criteria which are pre-requisite to membership.

3. Fiction: We pay £350m a week to EU. Fact: this figure does not include the rebate, which is deducted before payment, so actually about half of this! This lie is repeated three times in the one page.