It shouldn't come as a surprise as the SNP have repeatedly promised the earth when it comes to construction only to under deliver.

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He claimed the Nationalists had "promised the earth" to voters in the run up to the last Scottish elections but said they had "dithered, postured, centralised and deeply disappointed".

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Medicine is littered with promised cures that fell back to earth, right into the garbage heap.

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Governments promised to protect forests in the Earth Summit 1992 and support sustainable logging operations in the world's remaining ancient forests.

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They did not draw a finger through the earth in search of seeds where seeds should be, where flowers were promised.

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