If consensus can be reached in the Parliament—if Labour is true to its word on empowering the islands and what it wants to do with those areas, and if the same is true of the Liberal Democrats and others—there might be enough members of the Smith commission to produce a robust package for the islands and to enable powers to be transferred to the Parliament, which would, in turn, allow us to transfer powers to the islands and implement further decentralisation through the subsidiarity principle.