WI: The Irish troubles spread to Scotland and Wales

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What if Scotland and Wales had the same anti British insurgency and paramilitarties as Northern Ireland during the time of NI's OTL troubles?

There was some groups in these countries who were recieving training from the Provisional Irish Republican Army but did not achieve much results, what if they did on the same level as the PIRA?
 
seems highly unlikely, in Northern Ireland Unionists where given a free reign to run NI from 1922 till 1969, so you end up with two NIs the public NI, housing, policing, government schools, etc was all run for and by Protestants, with the Catholic minority setting up it's own underground governance with the Catholic Church controlling the schooling and welfare, it took years of Unionists shitting on Catholics to reach the boiling point, and than the divide between Protestants and Catholic help keeping it from healing for 30 years.

there wasn't a divide like that in Scotland or Wales in the 1970s, you'd have to change their history radically before the time we're talking about, which likely would butterfly away the Troubles in NI, or change them very much.
 
Can't speak for Scotland, but Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru certainly tried in Wales. If they'd shown a bit more competence - and especially if they managed to assassinate Prince Charles - then it's at least possible they could spark of the usual dreary cycle of cack-handed crackdown followed by even more terrorism, stc.
 
Not quite the same religious devide in Scotland or Wales, with the exception of Glasgow which had a lot of Irish immigrants and even today suffers from some degree of Catholic - Protestant Dividie. Although Glasweigans sort out their differences out on the football pitch nowadays.
 
Can't speak for Scotland, but Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru certainly tried in Wales. If they'd shown a bit more competence - and especially if they managed to assassinate Prince Charles - then it's at least possible they could spark of the usual dreary cycle of cack-handed crackdown followed by even more terrorism, stc.

Seconded. Sad but true.
 
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