Mike Tomlinson wrote
NY wrote

The fact that cables/plugs are fully moulded doesn't imply
that the plug is unfused, which is what you seem to be saying.

It's not that, Wodney is too stupid to realise what the fuse is for.

We'll see...

It's there for when you have an appliance plugged into a 32A ring circuit
with a flex designed to carry a maximum load of much less than 32A.

A fuse in the plug isnt the only way to handle
that as the rest of the entire world has noticed.

A fault in the appliance, not necessarily
a full short, is going to pass many amps
through the flex, potentially causing a fire,

Makes a lot more sense to specify a cable that doesn't
catch fire in that situation than to have a fuse in every plug.

without tripping the breaker. The fuse in the plug is to
guard against that; i.e. it's to protect the appliance *flex*.

And it makes no sense to have the much higher cost of
a fuse in every plug to 'protect' what can just be scrapped
in the unusual event that there is a high current fault in the
appliance its connected to that doesn't trip the breaker or
burn itself out in the appliance.