Here is the article source, not just a tweet, and it also has the numbers:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/22/bank-of-england-interest-rate-rise-latestAfter a 0.1% drop in gross domestic product in the three months to June as the economy slumped into reverse, the Bank said a further 0.1% decline could now be expected in the third quarter amid a slump in consumer spending and weaker activity for manufacturing and construction.
0.1% drop, run for the hills!!! The apocalypse is coming!
Imagine if it went down twice that much, by 0.2, It would have meant the end of the world!
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, if you're I've totally missed that, sorry. However, even small percentages when we're talking big numbers is a massive amount. It's the people that feel it, not necessarily the government as much. That 0.1% will be felt for the next decade, and it's the people that will have to pay more in tax, and see their money become worth much less, due to the inflation it costs.
0.1% might look trivial on paper, but we're talking about some massive numbers here.
I believe it's normal when there is a recession from time to time. It can't all be growth, you know, and there has also been the pandemic, followed shortly by the Russo-Ukrainian full-scale war that also made the economy take another hit. IMO the job of a country in times like this is to ensure as much as possible that those living currently under the worst conditions and those likely to be hit the hardest get some lost of financial support.
Overall, I think we should move to rethinking the economy as such, and whether it's even supposed to be growing all the time. We've long been making enough produce for the whole world, and the issue is not that not enough is made worldwide but in how incredibly unfairly it all gets distributed. Figuring out better ways of distributing goods and services rather than on growing the total amount in a system where it would disproportionately be more beneficial to the riches is the way forward.
Sadly, these people are usually forgotten about or offered trivial grants that in the grand scheme of things isn't going to help. I mean we haven't just got a recession, we've got energy price hikes which aren't justified one bit, so a lot of people can't even afford to heat their homes this winter. That's in developed countries now, in 2022. Plus, that's not trying to be dramatic either, a lot of people will literally be facing this problem. Add together the rising fuel, and food costs, and you've got a recipe for disaster. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if we see it all over the news how people have died over this winter simply because they can't afford these essential things.