Andrew Dickens Afternoons

Well the Prime Minister is back and all the glamour of her week abroad has quickly evaporated.Let me just say for the record that she did very well in Japan and New York. She avoided the gnarly politics surrounding Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.  Both men were very welcoming to our country and our future trade and this bodes well.She was charming in chat shows and a good ambassador for New Zealand and it seems we’re a well liked country at the moment.But back home this morning she was asked by all and sundry about the poor business confidence figures.  Based on the mood of the boardroom you’d think we were back in the bad black days of the GFC where the fear of not just recession but depression stalked the hallways of parliaments and businesses.But we’re not.We’ve slowed. But we’re ticking on. And most of our fundamentals are rock solid yet we do have a government that has put a stop to some plans and is taking an age to institute new ones.  This has been perceived as indecision and indecision breeds insecur