I'm not working at the moment argumentum ad populum meaning The quarterly growth rate was in line with the consensus forecast, which has moved up from 0.5pc over recent months. Some economists had expected growth of 0.7pc or even 0.8pc. It puts the economy on track to growth by more than 1pc this year, and will almost certainly require a revision by the Office for Budget Responsibility, which forecast growth of 0.6pc for 2013 at the Budget in March.