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Metiria Turei on Jones:

"It's probably a good thing that he's going, he's very much a 19th century man in a 21st century world, and I'm not sure he's going to cope with the changes that need to come," Turei said on Firstline.

"I think there's been real issues around with Shane and his sexism. I think the comments he's made and the very derogatory statements he's made about women in the past, in particular women in authority, has been a real problem."

She denied Jones had appeal to working class men.

"He's claiming he's got lots of support, but not enough that's kept him in Parliament. I don't know that he has a great deal of support in his caucus either because that hasn't kept him inside Parliament.

"At the end of the day, he's leaving. The Greens are staying. He won't be part of government, he won't be a minister and the Greens are intending to be so after the election on September 20," Turei said.

BOOM.