Balanced poverty lol. And it isn't "accepted", the EU is having a meltdown about how they're becoming less and less competitive vs EU. No politicians has ever said "yep, all the policies we support are the reason you're falling behind, and that's a good thing!"

(And I'm British, so this isn't some pro American rant)

The UK's pathetic growth, bad under the previous government, now even worse under a new leftist government that is bringing in continental style employment regulations etc, is the main topic of national debate right now