Dunfermline's PM.

Carnegie noted in last week's Dunfermline Press that one hundred years ago Fifers were preparing for a visit to Dunfermline by then British Liberal Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

Strange how thing's turn out: 100 years later the current Liberal Democrat and Fife MP Sir Menzies Campbell resigns, and a visit to Fife by a British Prime Minister doesn't have much of a novelty given that we have a Fife MP as Prime Minister, namely Mr Gordon Brown.

Carnegie wasn't around at the time to bump into Mr Campbell-Bannerman. He was too busy making his fortune in the States.

Rest In Political Peace.

So, Fife has lost one its political leaders. No, Sir Ming Campbell hasn't "passed away," although you would never guess it from the comments by Fife Liberal Democrat Councillor and former MSP, Andrew Arbuckle, and others; he has merely resigned as Leader of the Liberal Democrats.

Carnegie speculates about whether Sir Ming will fight the next General Election, despite apparent "assurances" that he will, given that he will be nearing seventy at the time and that he has reached the top of the "greasy poll" of Liberal politics ... and is now slipping his way back down again.