In 2007, the SNP won thousands of votes on a promise - an explicitly clear promise - to cut all primary school P1, P2 and P3 classes to a maximum of 18 pupils.There has been no real progress on this in the past two and a half years. Why? Because the SNP government, having promised it, has failed to fund it and failed to deliver its promise.
Today's 'Guardian' :
"Party abandons promise on class sizes
Scottish Nationalists accused of misleading parents as they abandon pledge to reduce primary class sizes to 18"
What are they now pledging to deliver? A maximum 25 (TWENTY FIVE!) pupils and the commitment covers P1 only. Pathetic. Utterly pathetic and complete failure of policy delivery.
As with so many of its promises - dumping student debt, £2000 to every first time home-buyer, matching the previous Labour and Liberal Democrat school building programme "brick for brick" - the SNP in government has proved to be an abject failure.