Archie Stirling explains why he's not standing for Holyrood this time round... "The country's voters are being short-changed, with the party machines determining the shape of the Scottish political landscape With the Holyrood election campaign now in full flow, the more assiduous among you may have noticed that neither my name nor that of my party, Scottish Voice, is among the runners and riders. After my first (and expensive) attempt to become an MSP in 2007, I thought long and hard before deciding to eschew a second opportunity to make my principal place of work that architectural aberration at the foot of the Royal Mile. |




