Yeah it seems, pretty much everywhere, all the talk before getting in power is just pointless fluff and it's actually a lot harder either to implement your ideas, or to avoid giving into temptation of being bought/convinced otherwise, to do things opposite to your stated goals.

It's actually really, really hard to UNDO government expansion in most countries. Once a new law is laid out, you generally just add stuff on top of it rather than repealing because there's just too many subversive forces profiting/benefiting from its existence.