Counterpoint- and I wish I didn’t think this - the vast majority of GB voters are only very, very vaguely aware that NI is part of the UK and empathetically don’t care that it is. Mainland bombing campaigns would change that, I suspect that significant escalation in NI violence won’t.
Your counterpoint was proved correct in the 70s and 80s and raised the profile of the situation here but only momentarily. There is still the odd mention of those atrocities - one quite recently about the Birmingham bombs if memory serves me right (dubious at times).
Counterpoint- and I wish I didn’t think this - the vast majority of GB voters are only very, very vaguely aware that NI is part of the UK and empathetically don’t care that it is. Mainland bombing campaigns would change that, I suspect that significant escalation in NI violence won’t.