MSPs used the tenth anniversary of Scottish devolution to clash over the political records of the leading Scottish parties in an animated First Minister's Questions in Holyrood.
Iain Gray, the Scottish Labour leader in Parliament, on Thursday challenged First Minister Alex Salmond over the SNP's list of 50 commitments met or exceeded since the party took power. Mr Gray cited the Scottish Futures Trust that produced "not a single school".
"In two years it has delivered two meetings, one e-mail, and not a single school or hospital," said Mr Gray.
He said: "Isn't this why one of our papers asks today on his record, has it all just been big talk from a wee man?"
Mr Salmond brushed this aside with a joke about his weight, saying the jibe was "very comforting indeed".
The First Minister read from a document that listed SNP achievements since the party took over from Labour two years ago. They included the council tax freeze, the abolishment of tolls on the Forth and Tay bridges, and halting plans to downgrade two hospital A&Es.
The First Minister further criticised Edinburgh's Labour-led city council for cutting plans for tram lines.
Mr Gray began his attack by saying Mr Salmond's cabinet had found time this week to "slap themselves on the back".
"Did they find time to think about the 1,000 teachers cut from our schools, the 1,000 apprentices made redundant still waiting on their training guarantee, the 20,000 construction workers on the dole because of the First Minister's failure to build schools and hospitals?
"Some of these people might be watching, because they are certainly not at work," said Mr Gray.
"Can the First Minister look them in the eye and tell them how well he is doing?"
Mr Salmond hit back: "That's the kind of question that probably sounded all right when he was rehearsing it with Andy Kerr" and went on to tell of "overwhelming evidence from the opinion polls of public support for the SNP.
Mr Gray turned to Mr Salmond's "list of so-called achievements" and mocked some of them.
"'Reviewed modern apprenticeship programmes' - he means he cut them," said the Labour leader.
"Number 41 - 'develop a North Sea supergrid'.
"How did I miss that? Where is he hiding it - in the basement of Bute House?
"Not so much wired to Norway - more like wired to the moon."
Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie challenged Mr Salmond to detail how the Scottish Government would respond to a planned £500million in efficiency savings from Westminster.
She said of Mr Salmond: "(He) does not have the guts to make tough decisions.
"This is a First Minister that doesn't have the bottle" to make these decisions, Ms Goldie said. "What is the SNP going to cut?"
Mr Salmond said efficiency savings will be "reinvested in public services" and "we'll meet any funding situation … (that is) in the interest of Scottish people."
He replied: "It will be done in an orderly manner."
The First Minister was also questioned about the government's prisoner transfer policy in light of Libya's request to seek the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi.
