Alan Jones: In the final weeks Michael Daley came nowhere near the truth

My interview with Mr Daley became a focus of a campaign in which he told untruths several times. When asking who won that contest, the answer is simply, “look at the scoreboard”, writes Alan Jones

Gladys Berejiklian and the Liberal Party have made history.

The electorate has given a Liberal government a third term for the first time since 1904.

The calm, the decency and the command of policy and costings demonstrated by the Premier have been rewarded. The electorate’s judgment in these things was vastly superior to sections of the media.

Right to the end, we were told this was going to be a near-thing and that Berejiklian and her team may well disappear over the political cliff.

Michael Daley during an interview at 2GB where he threatened to sack Alan Jones, along with all other sitting members, from the SCG Trust board if elected.

Alan Jones: “Mr Daley came nowhere near the truth”. Picture: Chris Pavlich

One professional know-all in the media argued voters were waiting with a bat to oust Gladys over the stadium issue. The issue was called, in an exercise of affected importance by this “journalist”, the kiss of death.

My interview with Mr Daley became a focus of a campaign in which he told untruths several times. When asking who won that contest, the answer is simply, “look at the scoreboard”.

The Labor Party now cannot wait to see the back of Mr Daley.

It is often said that politicians are economical with the truth. Time after time, in the last weeks, Mr Daley came nowhere near the truth.

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He was invited to return to my program immediately after the interview ended and said he would. Subsequently, he argued that he never squibbed an interview; but he did not return.

It is mystifying how, after failing to even know his policies in a public debate and equally failing to have a clue about their cost, he still said yesterday he would continue as leader. In the end, Mr Daley proved the most potent electoral plus available to a resurgent Premier.