What's so good about a democracy? It's a meaningless word banded about by politicians like 'freedom' or 'choice' (Thatcher's favourite). How can you have a democracy in a monarchy or a FPTP system: the government is chosen by the floating voters in the marginals only, nobody else counts. Of course the majority voted for FPTP: people don't like real change and don't vote for it. Arthur would you have accepted it if a referendum voted for capital punishment (which it would following the rantings of the Sun, Mail etc)? Cromwell and Ireton had the right idea in using Pride's Purge to cleanse the House of Commons of those who endlessly tried to negotiate with the King. They whinged about democracy then but the Army was probably more democratic than the House of Commons.
The trouble is there's now too many overgrown schoolboys in the House of Commons. It's easy to be a Saviour for a day when you just talk about it as Nick Clegg discovered.