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An earth fly is no longer necessary for a standard socket. My understanding is that the screw connected the earth to the metal backplate. But doesn't that sound a bit Heath Robinson. How many times do people drop the front plate without isolating? To do kitchen tiling for example. Imagine the plate dropped, and when re-connecting the plate someone pushes the face plate against the metal backplate and, say clips the line cable against the sharipish edge of the metral plate? Am I missinbg something, or would a fly earth eliminate a potenially hazardous issue?