The city is reeling under the strains of a struggling economy. An emergency meeting has been called between the major and four services of London in order to decide which one receives the quarterly budgetary allocation. Amongst the temperamental major, those present include a highly-strung mounted police officer, a bully of a traffic warden, a queen's guard, an unassuming refuse collector. Starting out as it means to go on, the meeting quickly declines into petty squabbles and bickering.