Sentences with phrase «of a fag packet»

The Community Legal Service (CLS) was a slogan dreamt up on the back of a fag packet by Paul Boateng MP in 1995.

But his plan, requiring draft laws to be put before Parliament by January, was opposed by Labour, which condemned it as «a back of a fag packet solution».

I haven't cut anything out yet, this is all very much done on the back of a fag packet at the moment.

I doubt that anyone working out their predictions and permutations for the remainder of the system, from the team of analysts with a supercomputer to man with a pencil and the back of a fag packet, expected West Ham to take anything out of yesterday's game.

You can't do it in the way Cameron seems to want to do it on the back of fag packet.»

One senior Tory said it was «an appalling waste of # 600million of taxpayers» money» and a «deal done on the back of a fag packet».

Mr Clegg replied: «I spent my time getting rid of ideas that these overexcited, juvenile characters lurking in some back office dreamt up on the back of a fag packet.»

The chairman of the Yes Scotland campaign, Dennis Canavan, has dismissed the No parties» pledge to grant further devolution as looking like, «something written on the back of a fag packet».

The union's deputy leader, Kevin Courtney, has described it as a non-manifesto policy which had been «written on the back of a fag packet».

The union's deputy leader, Kevin Courtney, described it as a non-manifesto policy which had been «written on the back of a fag packet».