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It is a conundrum that people accept that gas shouldn’t be messed around with, but think electrics are fair game?
I think it stems from gas being regulated from ages ago and it being visibly very dangerous when things go wrong.
AFAIK when domestic gas distribution started out in this country it was done by private companies with no regulation and whole terraces of Victorian houses tended to blow up with alarming frequency, so the whole game was regulated. People have long understood they can't mess about with it whereas electrics has been included in DIY books since forever. I even once had a B&Q diy book given to me about 14 years ago that had full instructions on how to fully wire your house.
When people watch the news about gas explosions, they see gas explosions dramatically sending buildings flying apart. People like drama and easily understood causes. When people watch the news about electrically ignited fires the story is about a fire with a footnote it was started by an electrical fault. They can't always easily relate to how an electrical fault can become a thermal hazard though.