For those who haven’t figured it out, this is an old article from 2016 which the OP has posted to try and be super-edgy. The article talks about the UK vying with Germany for the role of fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2016. Obviously what then happened was the UKs decision to leave the EU led to a stagnation that has kept growth restrained (but still positive).

What the OP probably hasn’t figured is that growth is only one metric. I’ll illustrate this with an example; imagine you own a house - what is the wealth, the 5% annual growth or the £200,000 equity? The answer is obviously the latter. It is the value of the thing, not the rate of change or that value which is important. Don’t get me wrong, growth is important - but what is important about growth is the context and the duration. The UK has the 4th largest national wealth in the world after the USA, Japan and China.

The point is that the UK is an immensely wealthy country (and if you don’t agree you need to travel the world and see how other people live). Where we fall down is that the wealth we have doesn’t necessarily seem to translate into happy lives (we work long hours, retired late, have little time off work and travel long distances to work). UK growth is held back by investor confidence because the UK is going through a period of a transition into bed trading arrangements but the fundamental picture is amazingly strong. We have a huge educated workforce, good physical and digital infrastructure with plans to keep it up to date, we are blessed with the presence of London and the pull-factor it has for jobs. This subreddit has decided that Brexit is some economic catastrophe but if you can step back and look at things objectively, things are on an upward trend still. They’ve just slowed down due to the uncertainty that Brexit has created.