Sentences with phrase «on fag packets»

Most of our understanding of graphic images - the pictures of decaying teeth and corpses in the morgue which are now slapped on fag packets - are that they affect you at first but you quickly learn to ignore them.

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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, described it as a non-manifesto policy which had been «written on the back of a fag packet».

I wonder why no - one has had a look at the difference between LA - run community schools and academies / free schools in the context of this story... The result of my quick fag - packet calculations (which I'm sure aren't 100 % correct, but I think are probably pretty much on the money): the percentages of schools which have higher FSM than non-FSM Progress 8 scores are: Free Schools — 6 % Academies — 3.2 % Community Schools — 0.8 % The only reason I had a look is because I was pretty confident that if the figures had been the other way round it would have featured heavily in the article.

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

written in crayon on a crumpled fag packet.

I also think he is unwise releasing his manuscript with so little work done on it — it comes across like a back - of - the - fag - packet calculation rather than a scientific paper.

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