I reckon if Mr. Dixon is reading this thread he would say to himself that it is all going to plan,as expected, the natives are fighting among themselves.He would then go out and enjoy his weekend.
Where I come from there is a large seaport, it employed over two hundred river pilots who were the highest paid pilots in the UK.The port authority wanted to negotiate new terms, the pilots gave them the finger because they were invincible nobody could do their job because the river was one of the hardest estuaries to navigate in the world.The port authority employed some experienced pilots from elsewhere, gave them a month,s training on the river. The local pilots went on strike new pilots came in by the score and the river is now run with less pilots at a fair rate of pay and less than ten of them are originals.
The message is that the river pilots were not invincible, the only people who believed the war stories about difficulty and accidents were the original river pilots themselves.
Don't fall into the same trap, change is coming and if you don't get involved you wil be worse off than if you didn't.