Fife

What is it about Fife - that oh-so-lovely(TM) county in the bowels of Scotland - that attracts leaderships contenders? After all, Brown is a Fifer and it seems Menzies Campbell has been pulling the daggers out of late. The 'support' Ming the Merciless gave Kennedy in December, stating "As long as Charles Kennedy remains leader of the Liberal Democrats he has my full support.", yet as little as three weeks later (with Christmas in the middle too), Kennedy quits. Was it daggers at dawn, Ming?

And how ironic that the three major UK parties could be led by Scots, or those with Scottish ancestry.