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I have now spoken to several members of Cornwall Council's Conservative group and none has been able to tell me why Scott Mann resigned. Scott himself is reluctant to add to the resignation email he sent to council leader Alec Robertson - an email which claimed the "straw that broke the camel's back" was some secret plot to fund the stadium.

The council, by its dogged refusal to answer the inevitable detailed questions, is doing its best to make this look like a conspiracy to use taxpayers' cash for soft loans, guarantees and/or infrastructure. But I have a feeling that Inox, promising to answer comprehensively a whole host of detailed questions tomorrow, might be about to demonstrate that the cock-up theory of history once more prevails.

A shame. I much prefer conspiracies, they are such fun and like every other journo I'm still looking. But really good conspiracies call for a degree of competence not normally associated with local government - and with so many critics eager to find holes in the stadium business plan, it would require a world class magician to pull this off.