In article ews.net,
"Doctor Drivel" writes:

"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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In article ,
tony sayer writes:

Now my French missus has taken to using a hair straightener in the
bathroom most of the time, and to that end has an extension lead going
in there!.

Now the greatest risk that is when in the dark I tripped over the lead
and went arse overhead!.

Now over en France, there its common practice to have power sockets in
bathrooms and no one it seems has been killed while using them. Now as
we have RCD protection etc why cannot we have them here anybody any real
reasons or is it just nanny state UK?......

As people have said, it looks like 17th edition regs will
allow this. The RCDs we have nowadays do seem to be quite
reliable (quite unlike the ones in the US which seem to
routinely fail unsafe).

Why?

The [lack of] quality of US electrical accessories has been
covered in this newsgroup before.

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