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If the ‘adults are back in charge’ we’re in deep trouble
SOLOMON HUGHES tracks down the dark and disturbing history of one of politics' most tiresome refrains and finds it has never meant anything other than war, neoliberalism — and the childish refusal to properly justify either
If the ‘adults are back in charge’ we’re in deep trouble
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ONE of the more cringe current centrist slogans is “the adults are back in charge” — meaning that there is a sense of maturity being shown by the Labour and Tory parties converging on the same old market-oriented politics.
Centrists like talking about “the grown-ups in the room” bringing technocratic calm to replace immature demands for public ownership or more taxation of the rich. It is a shallow argument, and it’s also another case where centrists have been so scared of a touch of socialism that they ended up borrowing an argument from the right.
When Keir Starmer fans make the “listen to the grown-ups” argument, it is supposed to make them seem mature — as if they are one of the grown-ups who need listening to. But it has the opposite effect, making it sound like they are the child who, unable to get the other kids to play with them, is calling for the “grown-ups” to come and help them out.
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