Alan Jones slams incoming NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian

NSW Treasurer Gladys Berijiklian is almost guaranteed to become the state’s premier on Monday, but not everyone thinks she’s up to the job.

NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian is likely to be installed as premier next week. Picture: David Moir/AAP

PROMINENT radio shock jock Alan Jones has been drawn out of sick leave to attack incoming New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian.

The state Treasurer is due to be installed as premier following Premier Mike Baird’s shock withdrawal from the position on Thursday.

Her chances of being handed the job during Monday’s Liberal party room meeting have been assured with prospective candidates Andrew Constance and Rob Stokes ruling out running themselves.

But according to Mr Jones, Ms Berejiklian is a “bad choice”.

The veteran broadcaster is on leave from his 2GB breakfast show while recovering from major back surgery and nerve pain, but called in to the program voice his opinion on Ms Berejiklian and her predecessor.

Alan Jones in hospital recovering from his thirteen hour back operation.

Speaking with fill-in host Steve Price, Mr Jones expressed his disapproval at Mr Baird’s expected replacement.

“Gladys Berijiklian is a nice person, (but) she is not across these issues,” he said, referring to issues the people of NSW have dealt with under the Baird government including lockout laws, council amalgamations and the future of coal seam gas.

“She is not across these issues in a million light years, so who is going to solve this issue?”

Mr Jones says that a Berijiklian government would leave the star “governed by bureaucracy”, and suggested NSW deserved a leader more like America’s incoming president Donald Trump.

“Who is going to do what Trump is doing and stand up to the bureaucrats and drain the swamp? No one,” he said.

“If they think the public aren’t gong to wake up to this they need to think again.”

Mr Jones said he had received calls and messages suggesting Ms Berejiklian and her staff had begun “making deals” immediately after Mr Baird’s shock announcement to shore up her chances at the leadership.

Jones slammed both Mike Baird’s surprise resignation, and Gladys Berejiklian’s expected leadership. Picture: Joel Carrett/AAP

“The Gladys Berejiklian forces were already ringing up and doing deals so that this would all be a fait accompli,” he said.

It’s all being stitched up. The public won’t cop it.”

Mr Jones also shared his disapproval about Mr Baird’s resignation, saying he should have stayed on.

The controversial broadcaster said he understood the outgoing Premier’s reasoning in wanting to have more time for his family, but inferred he also owed the families of NSW resident who had been affected by his policies.

“What about the families who have been ruined by the greyhound ban? Gone broke because of the lockout laws?” he said.

“There are thousands of families facing those problems and they’ve been affected.”