Green Party leader Natalie Bennett launched the party's manifesto.

It includes protection for the "nomadic lifestyle," cannabis and other drugs legalised, amnesty for illegal immigrants, fuel duty escalator restored, major road spending scrapped. It also mentions foreign aid would be increased by £6 billion a year, child benefit doubled, tuition fees abolished and pupils would get organic school dinners.

Even the manifesto author Brian Heatley admitted the plans were based on "a lot of estimation and judgment."

Well this manifesto should ensure the Green Party is sunk without trace.

Clark Cross, Linlithgow, via email

I was amazed to find out that ex pats in Spain are campaigning to continue to vote in our elections and that they can do so up to 15 years after they leave here. They are still complaining about the heating allowance being withdrawn they say that it gets cold in Spain so they should get it. If it gets as freezing cold as it does in Scotland and for the same length of time then perhaps, our old folk die of hypothermia here, but if they get a wee spell of chilly weather now and again no way should they get the money.

They don't seem to understand, they left to find a better way of life and sunny climes, they left to live outside the UK because they wanted to, no one forced them out, why should we subsides their life elsewhere.

Rosemary Keery, Glasgow, via email

This General Election is about maximising Scotland's power at Westminster and you will not do that by increasing the staff of the Labour Party branch office.

It is time for the Scottish people to show ruthless political pragmatism by sending a coachload of SNP MPs down to the House of Commons to fight our corner. I voted No in the referendum but on May 7, I will be voting SNP.

Terence Moore, Glasgow, via email

Regards Jim Murphy's claim "we need to make sure money is spent in Glasgow," full fiscal autonomy is meaningless to Scotland whilst part of the UK. It would only serve as a way for the mainstream Westminster parties to socially engineer a backlash against the independence movement.

Unless Scotland is in full control of what it earns, spends and produces-there is no point in fiscal autonomy.

Allan Mailer, Wigan, posted online