We might end up being respected after all

You reap what you sow mister Burnett and all your Chicken Licken “The sky’s falling in!” rhetoric merely demonstrates the bitter harvest you and your members have had coming for at least two decades
Shapps and his colleagues are no mugs, they know fine well the game is up and this situation is entirely of the haulage industry’s own making.
To quote the former PM Jim Callaghan “The sky is black with chickens coming home to roost”