Home Secretary Alan Johnson’s speech to the Royal Society for Arts yesterday, in which he lamely conceded that successive governments have made mistakes in handling immigration, is perhaps the most cynical public statement ever made by a government minister, even a Labour one.

“Whilst I accept that governments of both persuasions, including this one, have been maladroit in their handling of this issue”, blustered Johnson, “I do believe that the UK is now far more successful at tackling migration than most of its European and North American neighbours.”

“I want to talk about immigration today, tomorrow, next week and on any occasion I can.”  The “moderate majority” had not had their views heard on the issue, claimed Johnson.

Johnson’s weasel words ring hollow.   Only four months ago, in a statement to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee,  Johnson claimed that a cap on immigration would harm the economy, and that Britons should “welcome” immigrants who come to live and work here, adding that he personally was “happy” to live in a multicultural society.

“I do not lie awake at night worrying about a population of 70 million”, said Johnson in July 2009.  “I’m happy to live in a multicultural society. I’m happy to live in a society where we not only welcome those coming to live and work in this country, but also where we can go and live and work in other countries.”

For the last twelve years, even the Labour government’s own contrived and bogus statistics conceded that more than 250 thousand immigrants were arriving in Britain every single year.   Even the most incompetent and myopic administration could scarcely have failed to notice what was happening, or take some moderately effective action, however desultory and half-hearted, to prevent it.

The truth is that Johnson has admitted “maladroit” handling of immigration now, in order to distract attention from growing evidence that this demographic catastrophe is not a mere mistake, not just a monumental cock-up, but rather the intended outcome of a sinister, black-hearted conspiracy.

The admission by Labour apparatchik Andrew Neather in the Evening Standard that mass immigration was a premeditated Labour plot to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity” has forever closed off the conspirators’ defence of diminished responsibility for the manslaughter of the British nation.

It is clear for all to see that the high crime of mass immigration has not been a case of “maladroit” omission, but a deliberate attempt to murder an indigenous people with malice aforethought, nothing less than an act of malevolent, politically-motivated genocide.