In a country where first-past-the-post exists it is likely to have been supported by the establishment. Democracy would have been less threatening to the establishment if a single representative is sent from each constituency to take their place in parliament. This would have been correctly perceived at the implementation of democracy to be closer to what was already in existence.
When democrats today complain about the fptp system it is expected that those complaints will be recognised but there is no reason to think that they will. If we assume that it is the establishment who are in control of the voting system then to complain to them about it is to assume that they would be vulnerable to accusations of non-democracy. But there is no evidence that for the establishment non-democracy is a contradiction. It is very likely that the establishment is not concerned that the parliamentary system in place is not entirely democratic because the shortfall is (naturally) to the favour of the establishment.
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