The outspoken former radio broadcaster has taken a swipe at the Federal Government over its handling of the COVID outbreaks in aged care, warning that the Morrison Government could see a voter backlash if more funding isn’t directed towards the sector in yesterday’s Budget.

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The Sky News host – who is appearing this week on RFBI’s Mental Moments TV show for Mental Health Week – said the Government’s aim during the pandemic was to “protect the most vulnerable”, but “that hasn’t happened”.

“Which political leader, yesterday or tomorrow, will put their hand up and utter the certain truth that the elderly and their families have been let down?” he said.

In particular, Mr Jones criticised the Royal Commission’s special COVID report finding that neither the Department of Health or the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) had a national plan for the aged care

“This is staggering in its incompetence and betrayal of our elderly,” he said.

Noting that some families spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for residential care, the host stated bluntly: “What have they bought? Death.”

Mr Jones added that the Government’s own witnesses to the Royal Commission had warned the Government aged care homes needed a minimum of an additional $3.5 billion a year to provide better care.

“It is a scandal,” Mr Jones concluded.

“The decency of our society can be measured by our treatment of those who most need our help. In relation to the aged, we have to stop running away from the fact that we have failed abominably.”

“And if Government fails, and it gets its chance tomorrow, such failure won’t be tolerated by the electorate.”

The question is: will the Government deliver?