Fairness is a problem I suffer from....The Standard on the Fishing Issue

Of course, government must act on the Swain Report, and a number of our agencies need a swift kicking to make them understand that they have the power to act (and if they don't, government should give them those powers).

However, it may be that National will not do enough. The Standard suggests that they haven't, and won't. We'll see about the future, and I'll be the first to attack National if it is laggardly on the issue. But we on the Left must recognise that this issue has been around for years. All governments have failed on this front, and I think that we in the LP need to reflect on our own shortcomings when we look at this issue. I remember my first contact with the issue was in the early 2000s (perhaps 2001?), and it then seemed to be a peripheral issue, secondary to many other issues. I was wrong. Good research and good campaigning has shaken us from our sloth on this matter; now the LP must itself say what it would do about one of the most complex issues there is in international labour standards.