I thought Brit’s started to wake up when the EU told them they could no longer have their electric tea kettles, and electric toasters.
My British friend seemed to feel it was when they dictated they kind of vacuum cleaner you are allowed to buy.
I forgot about the electric tea kettles!
Somewhere on the world wide net there is a discussion among Brits who visit America and discovered that most of us don’t own one. They almost fainted at that and were forced to acknowledge that most Americans use a Mr. Coffee for their libations.
I had a British pal live with me for 6 months and he was bemused by my kettle which sat on the burner (’the hob’) for the very occasional teacup when I was sick.
Maybe that was the last straw!
It always boils down to tea.