MR BROWN: 'Let's be honest, net inward migration is falling, it's falling three years ago, two years ago and it's falling this year.'
REALITY: The most recent immigration figures relate to 2008. The figure for that year (163,000) represented a fall on the figure for 2007 (233,000). But, between 2006 and 2007, net migration had risen by 42,000.
So, there is only one consecutive year in which net migration has fallen. To claim two or even three consecutive falls is wrong. Mr Brown has previously cited incomplete data for 2009 to bolster his case - but was rebuked by the UK Statistics Authority.
BROWN: '[Net inward migration] is falling as a result of the action we are taking and will continue to take.'
REALITY: While net immigration fell by 70,000 between 2007 and 2008, of that 67,000 - or 95 per cent - was a result of a fall in net migration from the new Eastern European members of the EU. That had nothing to do with government policy as East Europeans have free movement.
BROWN: 'Border controls have been brought in and we are counting people out and in from the end of this year. It was a policy that the Conservatives scrapped before 1997.'
REALITY: Labour scrapped embarkation controls - counting people in and out of the country - for non-EU nations in
2008. The Tories stopped counting EU journeys in 1994, in line with Britain's obligations as an EU member.
BROWN: 'We've brought together the police and immigration officials and customs officials in one agency, we're doing that already.'
REALITY: Police are not part of Labour's 'border force', which is a merger of HMRC, immigration and UK visas staff. The idea of including police was resisted by ministers. It is Conservative policy to merge the police, customs and immigration-staff into a border police force.
BROWN: 'Police have to spend 80 per cent of their time now on the streets.'
REALITY: The Advertising Standards Agency ruled the Government's claim that 'You can now expect your neighbourhood police to spend at least 80 per cent of their time on the beat in your area' to be misleading. It includes time spent in meetings. Just 14 per cent of all police officers' time is spent on patrol.
BROWN: 'The important thing is that we are doing the right thing by our troops and that's why we've increased the spending on equipment dramatically over these last few years.'
REALITY: Figures from the Ministry of Defence show that the defence budget fell year-on-year in real terms on four occasions since 1997.
Bullshit, flannel, lies, spin, and incompetence, thats all we get from Brown. We would do better having Frank (Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em) Spencer as PM.