If you want a good indicator on how the recovery is going in the financial capital of the world then strip clubs are the ones to watch.
According to Peter Stringfellow, business is on the up from big City spenders as his strip club revenues rose 20% on last year. They would have been more but for the World Cup.
He says it’s the financial clientele “who put the big money down” as they celebrate growing business activity in London’s financial centre.
“The amount of money spent in my clubs is usually wrapped around somebody who is doing a deal, or has done a deal. Especially with takeovers and launches on the stockmarket, there’s a healthy feel again, people are happy. People come into my clubs to celebrate or cement a deal they’re doing — not a matter of a man walking in and watching a beautiful girl take her clothes off. It’s very much a business environment.”
The recession hit everyone and when job losses were front and centre of City life, that part of consumer spending went out the window. You may think I jest when I link the recovery to a nudie club but it shows the confidence level of workers in our biggest economic sector. Strip (pun intended) strip clubs out of the equation and you still have restaurants, pubs, taxis and countless other businesses that suffered too.
Maybe he’ll move into robot strip clubs to keep up.
£30 for a private dance sir?
