Gareth O'Callaghan: Government like a wayward horse that loses a jockey

A friend compared the current Government to a horse that loses its jockey halfway through a race, and then careers around the race track, out of control without anyone to pilot it. Picture: Healy RacingĀ
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.ā These are the words of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
Many governments around the world have forgotten these critical words, including our own.