Actually, Don, the quotes that I have seen from the accused pamphlets say "could lose". Since, until Cameron rapidly made policy on the hoof, conservative policy was not to say what if anything would be ringfenced in that area, the statement "could lose" was absolutely correct, and indeed the possibility of those losses was a distinct risk. Thus there were no lies such as you attribute.

Thus Brown's denials that there were such lies or that he had authorised them were wholly true.

Your accusation is as ill founded as (it seems) your assertion (of which another person recently reminded me) that the Brown government had reduced your income by £80 per week. You might have intended to say "month" but you definitely said "week". Even if you meant "month" is seems improbable since you were going off about the 10p tax rate and the best information I have been able to find without wasting too much time is that the theoretical maximum loss from that change was £223 per year and that once pensioners reached 65 other effects turned them into net gainers.