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I don't think it needs to be seen that way. The thing to attack here is not that this would have necessarily been prevented, but to have to go full on army in the streets is a direct result of the culling of front line police roles.
Putting the army in to NI did not bring about the peace process. It stirred up more hatred and anger from Irish Nationalists towards the Union as the army aren't always trained to deal with socio-political or socio-economical nuances in ways that don't lead to escalation.
labour need to play this carefully. last thing they want is to be accused of weaponising a tragedy, which is kinda annoying considering it's patently obvious this situation has been exacerbated by may's policies whilst HS.