New Premier Kristina Keneally’s admission that she was intimately involved in putting together the transport blueprint Mr Rees was supposed to have unveiled yesterday almost certainly means the CBD Metro will stay under her Government, Member for Castle Hill Michael Richardson warned today.

“The Metro is the centrepiece of that transport blueprint, and while it includes both the North-West rail Link and the Epping-Parramatta Link there’s no funding mechanism to deliver these projects,” he said.

“They’re in Never-Never Land. Eric Roozendaal says they can’t be funded.

“By contrast, Barry O’Farrell has said that if he is elected Premier in March 2011 he will scrap the CBD Metro and use the money saved to build the North-West Rail Link.

“The only chance of the Hills ever getting its railway line is to vote Liberal.

“Nathan Rees said yesterday that under Labor the business of government is almost impossible –Kristina Keneally should put the people of NSW out of their misery and call an election.”

Mr Richardson said that when Nathan Rees described the new Premier being a puppet of Joe Tripodi and Eddie Obeid he was speaking the truth.

“It’s been more than 50 years since a political leader has denounced his own party in such a way.

“Shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic when they should be looking out for icebergs won’t save the State Labor Government from sinking to the bottom in 2011.

“This is still the same bunch of incompetents and party hacks that has converted NSW from the Premier State into a basket case.

“The sooner they are cleaned out and a new Government installed the better off we’ll all be.

“Nathan Rees’ red-hot go burnt out with the November 2008 mini-Budget in which he scrapped the North-West Rail Link in favour of the CBD Metro.

“He ended his Premiership like the rest of NSW – white-hot with anger.”