Basic insulation exposed in electrical outdoor meter box.

Having read all the way through this thread, one most important aspect is missing. Why is this question being asked in the 1st place? Has it been sparked by a sudden increase in fatalities due to faulty or missing meter cupboar doors? How many people have been killed as a direct consequence? And out of those, how many were of the skilled and instructed variety and how many were simply joe public?

Finally, is it worthwhile to contine the debate? In todays world we seem to have become afflicted with an almost addictive need to look for non problems and then over-diagnose them to death when our time could be better spent on other more vital stuff.

Bank holiday rant over! But what do others think about how this affliction to agonize endlessly over nothing in particular and then diagnose and label it as a dangerous negative seems to grow and grow Must be keeping some otherwise unemployable person in a job somewhere.

I think the whole thing is a storm in a teacup.

If someone wants to read the meter, then they will open the meter box and read the meter.  At most, they will have to poke a button on the meter to wake up the display.

I can't see any consumer then deciding to do something stupid like attacking the single insulated meter tails with a pair of scissors.

It's the common sense problem: neither common nor sense [on both sides of the electrocution] 

Depends what you mean by “meter box”. I doubt anyone would feel comfortable with single insulated cables in this meter location;

Depends what you mean by “meter box”. I doubt anyone would feel comfortable with single insulated cables in this meter location;