The only good use of "growth" is to do real "reform".

i.e. - There is no good time to share the profits.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

It can't be a mainstream politician, can it? Mainstream implies acceptable to conventional wisdom which is generally formed by folks who read the Economist and FT, right? Ok, the Medef people aren't necessarily going to endorse your policies but they will at least have some of their membership endorsing some of your policies, or at the very least, abstaining from comment due to their relatively inoffensive character viz. those folks who actually own things.

I do know of a few politicians who will say "reform" is a sham and that we need to go another way, though, and they don't much read the anglo-saxon conventional wisdom and they are offensive to the Medef crowd.
Quite a few of these have done moderately well, at least in France.

Unfortunately (or fortunately if you are Royal) they are imploding these days, as the "left" of the "left" often do.


The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill

But the problem here is that needed reforms of institutions and processes, namely slow justice, unnecessary bureaucracy and most important a reform of a certain way of thinking the "public cause", namely what is public being regarded as belonging to nobody instead of belonging to all of us.

This becomes easily entangled with the reforms of social security or labour laws, for example.

One can not voice his opposition against "reform" without risking throwing away the proverbial baby with the bath water... The much needed reforms.