Strike Me Down With A Feather

It's all starting to kick off. The party appears to have started before the Argies have even arrived.

I have a funny feeling that 2009 is going to be the year of the strike and civil unrest.

Sympathy strikes by energy workers are breaking out across the UK after a mass walkout at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Killingholme after owner Total gave a £200m contract to an Italian firm.

Did the CEO of Total recently wake up to find himself in bed with a horses head I wonder?

The French love a good strike, it's perhaps what they do best, that and surrendering of course. A large chunk of the country's public sector workers took to the streets yesterday demanding action to protect wages and jobs in the economic crisis.

Setting fire to cars is a uniquely French solution to the current crisis afflicting the auto industry don't you think?

Even the normally placid Greek farmers are having a go.

Europe 3 Argentina 0.