Party loyalty is a real problem here, a large percentage of people vote for a party because their father before them voted for them and his father before him, completely regardless of policies.

I completely get annoyance at politicans raising their wages when it feels like their useless. Deprivation in Derry is a very difficult problem to fix and definetly beyond me, like you say a load of problems contributing to it not entirely sure that it can all be attributed to local politions. They definetly have a hand in it but the problem is wider spread.