AS YOU might expect from the group whose very name sums up eco-living, The Green Party offers a manifesto designed to shame the others into submission.

The only party to offer a female leader, Caroline Lucas, the Greens pledge to raise £73bn in their first year alone by taxing foreign holidays, drivers and higher earners.

They also offer a hard-line “no new coal” power station policy, are anti-nuclear, promise a radical transport policy to cut emissions, and support renewable energy policies (and their funding).

The Greens have the fiercest targets and timetables for reducing emissions, as well as the most radical ways to do so – including “personal carbon quotas”, a bit like cap and trade for individuals and companies.

Their Liverpool manifesto promises to introduce a maximum speed of 20 mph across the city – with the sole exception of arterial roads and to bring a Car Club back into the city.

Tom Crone, the local candidate for St Michael’s and the Parliamentary candidate for Riverside, said: “In order to do so, we need to create incentives for car clubs.

“This would include free exclusive parking bases at strategic points in the city. Local planning policy should require any sizeable housing development to include a car club base with subsidised membership for residents.

“Buses should also be given more priority in the city centre, as well as more bus lanes to speed up journeys.”