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As always, it will be the people at the bottom of the pile who get the biggest kicking
That’s not automatic. The incomes of those at the bottom of the pile are driven more strongly by government welfare policy than by economic conditions. The Tories can shit on them whether there is growth or not.
EDiT: looks like you made the same point later in your comment. Yes agree this could be a nasty pretext for nasty policies... given how thin the Tory manifesto is we just don’t know how nasty.
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Of course any contraction of the economy won't be felt equitably. As always, it will be the people at the bottom of the pile who get the biggest kicking. The potential for harm is not that the economic problems will directly make things unbearably awful, but that the Tory government will be able to blame the promises that it has to break on groups (forrins, immigrants, remainers, socialists, liberal metropolitan elite etc.) in a way that might produce a horribly social toxic mix. They have shown themselves both willing and able to very effectively manipulate the opinion of those that they are most likely to harm and I don't see any reason why they might stop.