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I find that if I stare long enough at the which Cornwall Council helpfully provides to illustrate its current political composition, all sorts of weird notions enter my mind. Such as adding up the numbers of all those councillors who could be broadly described as "Opposition" - I make it 44. There are 48 Conservatives and 31 Independents, giving the coalition a theoretical total of 79. Yet we know that some of those Independents do not fully support their own Independent group, never mind the coalition. In any event, only 18 of those Independents would have to swap sides bring about a change of political control. Or to put it another way, 18 Independents would have to support the Conservative-led administration in a vote of confidence.