A frustrated Simon Benson has quit his key role as chair of a steering committee created several months ago by all the mainstream media outlets operating in NSW to coordinate their efforts to ensure the return of the LNP at tomorrow’s state poll.

In handing in his resignation overnight, Benson lashed out at those MSM outlets for not maximising their efforts to ensure Premier Dominic Perrottet was returned for a much-deserved fourth four-year term.

Benson is The Australian newspaper columnist given that key steering-committee task on the strength of revelations of his heavy involvement as one of the nation’s most senior, highly respected and independently minded journalists in ensuring the deadly and illegal RoboDebt non-debt recovery scheme killed as many innocent Australians as possible.

Benson (pictured at top recently addressing a meeting of top MSM editors and producers) spared no print or electronic media platform as he presented a scathing critique of their performances over the election period but he specifically singled out Sky News Australia over its “shocking mishandling” of Wednesday’s leaders debate.

“Momentum is everything in politics, particularly in the final stages of a campaign, and you can’t tell me that SkyNews People’s Forum couldn’t have selected 100 undecided voters who were really LNP supporters.

“That’s the normal practice and had it been followed the debate would have been awarded to Perrottet by a wide margin! And rightly so. He wiped the floor with Chris Minns.

“And why they and the debate co-hosts The Daily Telegraph then promoted that false result is a complete mystery to me. It should have been binned. Major victory to Minns, my arse.”

Benson said The Daily Telegraph‘s role in holding that debate detracted from the otherwise fine work the paper had been doing in keeping NSW in safe LNP hands.

“Their creampuff piece in today’s edition on Dom was excellent and with so many undecided voters out there, I’m still expecting the Right result tomorrow night, especially on the back of that mass mailout by John Howard to western Sydney voters, urging them not to let Labor wreck our wonderful state.

“All Australians still have time for and enormous respect for John.”