Britain needs more immigrants, not fewer, the Labour Party’s Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced.

Making the astounding claim on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday, Mr Johnson said the Government had a duty to “make the case” for yet more immigration.

Official figures have shown that in the three months to May, 281,000 British workers lost their jobs taking the total to 2.4 million. In March this year figures from the Home Office showed that the number of people with jobs who were born overseas had risen over the previous twelve months by 129,000 to 3.81 million.

In other words, there are more foreign-born people in employment in Britain than there are British unemployed — yet the demented Home Secretary still insists that we need even more immigration.

“A continuing influx of workers from overseas would boost the country’s economy,” Mr Johnson said, adding, quite falsely, that unskilled migrants would no longer be able to enter Britain.

This is, of course, another lie. Britain’s membership of the European Union means that anyone who has an EU passport is able to enter and work in Britain no matter what their skill level.

In this regard it is worth bearing in mind that the freedom of movement regulations under which this EU invasion occurs was introduced by the last Conservative Party administration and not by Labour. The Tories are therefore just as much to blame as Labour for the destruction of Britain through mass immigration, despite their opportunistic bleating about the problem today.

Mr Johnson also explicitly ruled out even the ‘balanced migration’ half-measure proposed by his fellow party member Frank Fields and Tory toadie Nicholas Soames. Mr Fields and Mr Soames head up something called the ‘Cross Parliamentary Group on Balanced Migration’ which claims to be worried about the immigration problem, but which was actually set up to try and ward off the British National Party by talking about immigration control, something they know their respective parties will not do.

Mr Fields and Mr Soames have made the pathetic suggestion that immigration needs to be capped and ‘balanced’ — in other words, that only the same number of people who leave the country should be let in.

This by itself will only stabilise the population, but will do nothing about the ever increasing rate of internal Third World colonisation which is set to make the indigenous population of Britain a minority well within 40 years.

Mr Johnson said that he doesn’t think that “a cap is the answer because the problem with a cap is that it’s an arbitrary figure. What you need to do is ensure that you make the case and there is a very strong case to the importance to our economy of migration.”

The interview followed his admission last week that he did not “lie awake at night worrying” about Britain’s population hitting 70 million.

Sir Andrew Green, of the population think tank Migrationwatch, who is also a proponent of the nonsensical ‘balanced migration’ option, has pointed out that the mathematics show that the Government’s points-based system will only reduce non-EU immigration by eight percent but that a 75 percent reduction is needed just to keep the population  below 70 million.