Sockets don’t have fuses. Only the plug. Sockets have switches but those are manually tripped and clearly visible when on or off. The fuses in the plugs only bl

Sockets don’t have fuses. Only the plug. Sockets have switches but those are manually tripped and clearly visible when on or off. The fuses in the plugs only blow under exceptional circumstances too. The whole thing is really low maintenance in my experience (I’ve had more issues with US plugs so weird you experienced the reverse). My biggest complaint about U.K. plugs is that they’re not more universal. This leads to some international goods having really shitty adapters to slot their proprietary plug into a U.K. plug. Some of which are so bad that they completely undo all of the safety mechanisms built into the U.K. plug. As for the complaint about stepping on a plug, I’ve done that maybe once in my entire life time. Frankly if you can’t be bothered to tidy up your electrical cables then it’s really your own fault and not the flaw in the design of the plug.