Martin Angove wrote:

* either that, or they would mandate fuse protection inside every
appliance and while a lot (TV, video etc) already have this, it's
going to be difficult persuading manufacturers to bung a fuse inside
a £3 table lamp.

Every US set of Xmas lights has a fuse inside the connecting plugs, and
some of these sell for $2! Doesn't seem like a problem to me, but if the
fuse is inside the appliance, then replacing it may give access
problems, as it already does in TVs.

Regards
Capitol