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The whole point of having both a plug fuse AND a fuseboard fuse or mcb
is that if one is defeated, there is a backup still working.

The whole point of rings instead of radials is to increase safety,
reliability and socket availability.

Not really. Rings came about because of ships, to reduce the amount of
cable, and one lighting cable could be strung around the whole ship. Many
British go to Spain and take with them UK cables and CUs and fit Spanish
plugs, using rings. The Spanish authorities cut the circuit off when they
see them. The Spanish forbid rings. Cheeky *******s I know, when you see
the state of Spanish wiring. The new Euro wiring standards is to only have
radials. Not finalised or approved yet, and still up in the air, but
looking that way.

There is no evidence to prove that rings are safer than radials.