The thin, green-colored twisted cord wired to a huge BS546 15A plug certainly looks out of balance. Just imagine it going into a CEEform plug!

The older sets here used to have a tiny screw-in bulb, but these days the wedge base with wires just folded over is the most common, like the one illustrated in the link above:

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In the USA, where the voltage is 110v and the safety regulation are not as severe as in Europe, many parallel wired sets are used inside and outside; many have an add-along facility too. Unfortunately our regulations make this sort of set impractical to make at a price anyone would want to pay, and many of these US sets are downright lethal and are illegal to import into the EU.

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