Dangerous Green migrant plan would add MILLIONS to UK population | UK | News
According to the new report, which reveals the sharp divide between the parties on immigration, the population of England will increase by 4.4 million in five years during the Green Party government.
Analysis by City investment bank Panmure Liberum predicts Zack Polanski’s open border policy will increase net migration to around 900,000 a year and increase the UK population from 71.5 million in 2029 to 75.9 million in 2034.
Compared to this projection, all other parties look restrictive. Epxress understands that Reform UK would keep net immigration at around 40,000 a year, adding around 200,000 people to the population in the same five-year window, while the Conservatives would bring in around 160,000 people a year, adding 800,000 people in total. Labor is expected to reach between 1 and 1.3 million voters in the next parliament if it remains in power.
Uncertainty in Labour’s reach hinges on whether Shabana Mahmood will be successful in implementing her plan to extend the permanent residence qualification period to ten years, from the current five years. Extending this to those already living in the UK would keep the population increase close to one million. Failure to achieve this pushes the figure towards 1.3 million.
Today’s population is 69.5 million. The reported figures put this into context: Reform would take this figure to 71.7 million, the Conservatives to 72.3 million and the Greens to 75.9 million.
Green Party plans
Simon French, Panmure Liberum’s chief economist and a former Civil Service economic adviser, told the Daily Mail that the gulf between the parties was unlike anything he had seen in the quarter-century of studying British immigration.
“The spread of the policies of Britain’s four leading parties could lead to a difference of more than four million in the UK population by the end of the next parliamentary term,” he said. “This extraordinary spread is because the policies of the Green Party and Reform UK are as diametrically opposed as anything I have seen in 25 years of analyzing UK immigration policy.”
The Greens have made it clear that in an ideal world “most border controls would not exist”. According to Polanski, everyone in immigration detention would be released, illegal immigrants would be subject to amnesty and be integrated into the welfare and healthcare system, and the broader framework would be rebuilt around the principle that every comer is a citizen-in-waiting. Internal party documents describe a goal to “establish a system that recognizes that all immigrants are treated as citizens-in-waiting and therefore supports and encourages them to put down roots in their new homes.”
The party’s stance, described by opponents as “fiscally reckless but also dangerous”, comes as the Greens are expected to make significant gains in next month’s local elections.
French noted that without immigration, Britain’s population was essentially stable, with deaths marginally outpacing births, leading to a natural decline of around 10,000 a year. The Office for National Statistics predicts a population increase of 1.6 million in the next parliament, based on net migration of 340,000 per year. In the green scenario, this figure will be more than doubled.
“The whole movement is net migration,” French said.
green response
A Green Party spokesman reportedly rejected the findings.
“These figures are fabricated and we were not given any information about how they were calculated,” he apparently said. “The Greens support a fair and managed immigration system, and successive governments have presided over a broken and unjust system.
“People are concerned about the impact of immigration due to a major economic crisis, but unlike other parties we will not scapegoat immigrants for the injustice created by our rigged economic system.”
