Yeah electrical safety here is probably the best on the planet. My oven is plugged into a standard socket to give you an idea. (2.5kW single oven).
British mains plugs have been iterated on for decades and are incredibly robust. Never seen a problem with one unlike the US ones which seem to melt every two minutes.
The problem with your wiring and our wiring (at least from tales I've heard) is the same as over here; a lack of adherence/enforcement: The fact that
existing wiring is often "grandfathered" and doesn't need to be changed by law, even for many rental properties. To further exacerbate matters, because of this you can have mixed ring topology and star topology, and still have point-to-point over there too.
I'm not claiming our "standards" are in any way better... the house I'm living in is a textbook example: we have mixed cloth covered 12-2 W/G, ROMEX 12-2 W/G, and cloth-covered 12ga 2 & 3 conductor in BX cladding, with and without a GND wire.
So essentially 4 "standards" of wiring, and most of the time, you don't know exactly what you're dealing with until you pop a cover.
Oh, and as I mentioned before, one original (well, probably retrofit 40-60 years ago) CB panel and another that was installed with the two AC units 20-30 years ago... and I've already found at least one outlet in the kitchen that gets sourced from the latter - right between two that are sourced from the "original" CB panel.
What the fuck good is
any electrical standard if it isn't globally enforced...? Then it's just like the
Pirate Code; more a set of guidelines, really...
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Electrical "Standards":