Elizabeth Truss got hammered by Neil as well, I don't see any media conspiracy in support of the coalition against the poor Labour and Greens. I agree the Tories need to explain more how they'll fund that and also where the major cuts will be made, and they've been criticised for that aplenty.
The Greens economics are pretty incoherent on a basic level though, like a failure to grasp that after a certain point you actually get less revenue coming in the higher you tax the income of the most wealthy - raising the top tax rate to 60p won't work and certainly is not likely to raise the £2b that the Greens are claiming. The Greens are also saying that they can raise £30bn in clamping down on tax avoidance - that's 6 times more than the Tories are saying they can raise and 5 times more than Labour think can be raised - what's the Green's secret? And from the BBC politics feed:
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And the man who wrote the manifesto numbers, Brian Heatley, has told me they can't really be sure how much their new wealth tax would work because it hasn't been tried before. In a sense, refreshingly candid. In another way, extremely problematic for a party that wants to be taken seriously on a tax that they need to raise £20 billion. The Greens also say in their manifesto they would carry on spending more each year than the government gets from revenue. Does that mean deficits for ever? The Greens won't say
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And this is all after we were told to wait for weeks before criticising Green policies because their fully costed manifesto would comprehensively cover everything. Doesn't seem that way.