Hardly a ringing endorsement of the policy is it?

How amusing, the Downing Street website is currently bigging up Gordon Brown's Mansion house speech tonight and the subject of Afghanistan with a picture of happy Afghan voters showing off their ink stained thumbs, presumably to show us how important it is to bring democracy to Afghanistan.

Have they forgotten that the election in question was err... how do you say it.... rigged? Perhaps Gordon is sending a subtle message to us all that the next election in the UK will go the way of the Afghan one? It's his best hope isn't it?