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Maybe an intermittent fault in the wiring between the FCU and the socket, as suggested by TTC at 7:01.

It's an intermittent fault, so testing, whether IR or continuity, is unlikely to find it. A visual examination, perhaps including some dismantling, is more likely to succeed. Was this bidet seat made for the UK market, or is it from ebay?

If it's tripping a B40 MCB I'd expect there to be some visible signs of shorting.

Or an earthed CPC...

2 and 4.

Recovery of 7 out of 11 million metres seems pretty good to me, having had some experience of a voluntary recall of products sold through distributors. Interesting to read that plasterboard is flammable: "Sam Gluck, technical manager at electrical fire consultants Tower Electrical Fire and...

Steel in their brass mixture???:eek: Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.

They have an oven at eye-level with a hob above it?:eek:

Me too, but life isn't!

Why should it be fair? The present system isn't, e.g. for people who own more than one car, people who live in remote areas and depend on their car, etc.

Much simpler to just assume that x% of all electrical energy is used to charge EVs and price it accordingly.

You wouldn't care if you had a leased battery, although the owner might. However it isn't that simple - batteries do have a maximum number of cycles, but they also don't like being left part-charged, and/or under light load, for long periods.

True, but what if they were told that parking cost £x per day, but if you let the airport 'borrow' your battery it was £0.5x? Airport car parks already have mobile jump-starters on hand, mobile fast chargers wouldn't be impossible.

Let's not forget the other motive for government/generators' encouragement of EVs - the potential to use the millions of part-charged EVs as grid-connected batteries during periods of high demand. One of the speakers at a seminar I attended a couple of years ago was drooling at the thought of...

As done by a local electrician in my house two years ago!

More likely an underlying motive to destroy the Labour-voting council estate ghettos.

Where've you been?

No, one only has to work out a tariff that applies to mixed use including EV charging. It doesn't have to be accurately reflecting the purpose for which the energy is used, as long as it's acceptable to the regulators, i.e. sufficiently accurate in the majority of cases.

What other loads might there be that have a 'spiky' current waveform and high current, that persists for several hours?

Hardly what I would call "waveform analysis", but I've been led to believe that some at least can recognise 'patterns' of current consumption.