Let's have a heated debate...

 

I seem to be banned from this Facebook group...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/openlabour

Don't know why

Or who runs it

But it seems to be full of very angry people 

Don't remember saying anything controversial.  I just pottered by one day and it wasn't there anymore... 

...but it still is.  I'm excluded?

 

I complained to the party who said it's not a breach of the Rulebook... But I don't know how anyone squares that with the Rulebook which defines relational aggression such as excluding people from meetings as bullying...

 

And then I thought maybe it's nothing to do with the party at all.  After all no one checks you've got a membership number ...

So I complained to my NEC representative... who said "I don't think party rules extend to Facebook or other groups set up by elements within the party, who make their own decisions on group rules and who can and cannot participate... apparently this is no longer linked with Open Labour (see here), but the admins running it carried on as a Labour discussion group.

I'm aware that posts have got very heated recently with a series of unpopular government decisions, and the admins are probably trying to draw a line between debating issues and arguing with individuals, and keep the temperature down."

That's the world we live in now I suppose... One where the temperature needs to be lowered by silencing people....?