On the face of it, the States Assembly and Constitution Committee’s recommendation that anyone off the street who’s able to get elected as a deputy should be eligible to run as chief minister is one of its more bizarre ideas.

Unfortunately, the committee does not enjoy the best of reputations for the quality of its reports and this seemed like the latest in a line of poorly considered publications.

After all, the only justification for such a radical change – currently four years’ experience in the House is the minimum threshold for a chief minister – is that Sacc’s members by a majority believe that there should be no ‘previous experience’ restriction.

Not because it would make anything better, or right some now discovered wrong. But simply because they want it that way. No justification, no explanation, no evidence-based decision making.

But perhaps we do Sacc a disservice. The proposal is actually a brilliantly subversive attack on the system of government as the fifth columnists have now declared their hand.

Mission: No Leaders seeks to undermine what little clout a chief minister has and ensure that the Assembly retains all authority while its 45 local members avoid any responsibility for their actions.

Since no experience is necessary to be a chief minister, Sacc’s clandestine message goes, what he or she does is of no significance. Therefore, the appointment is of no consequence. That is reinforced by having a stranger to the corridors of power then selecting their ministerial ‘team’, from (to them) a random bunch of strangers.

Former chief minister Mike Torode came perilously close to exposing the seditious nature of Sacc’s position in yesterday’s Guernsey Press but the enemy within knows its audience and the allure of offering members unfettered licence to elect someone with no idea of the job plays strongly to Mission: No Leaders.

Where Sacc’s assignment to undermine is so calculated, of course, is in its covert message that it doesn’t matter who is chief minister.

Put a puppet in place with no job description or resources at his or her disposal and, reasons Sacc, it’s mission accomplished.