My social media profile on Facebook, is owned and managed by me, with the support of my team. The channel aims to increase awareness of my work and share information I feel is useful to my constituents.
I do not reply to comments on social media channels. I engage with local constituents by email, in surgeries, and at events or meetings; I regularly knock on doors and publish surveys to ask for your views. However, I do not engage in discussions on social media.
Breach of the following guidelines on my social media channel may lead to your comments being hidden or deleted, users may be blocked without notice, and serious breaches may be reported to the police or social media platform.
- Please comment respectfully.
- Abuse, threats or harassment of any kind will not be tolerated – even if you think the words used were mild or intended as a joke.
- Discriminatory language, including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or any other form of hate speech, will not be tolerated. Such comments may be hidden or deleted, and the accounts posting them may be blocked and, where appropriate, reported.
- While comments that disagree with my position will normally be allowed to remain on my page, commenters should not be promoting other political parties or campaigns – please use or create your own pages for such messages.
- My social media is not a platform for members of other political Parties. I reserve the right to remove comments promoting other Parties or from elected representatives of other Parties and the accounts posting them may be blocked. I appreciate healthy debate but do not feel this can be achieved in comments on social media, nor is it something I feel the majority of constituents would like to see me engage in.
- Comments that misrepresent my actions, beliefs or position on an issue will be removed and the accounts posting them may be blocked.
- Comments intended to deflect or divert attention from the content of the main post are not permitted and the accounts posting them may be blocked.
- Please don’t share personal or sensitive information about yourself or anyone else in the comments. If you need help with a personal issue or casework, email derek.twigg.mp@parliament.uk so that my team and I can respond appropriately. Comments that disclose private details about another person will be deleted to protect their privacy
- No misinformation or conspiracy theories.
- No comments from fake accounts or bots that seek to take over the comments.
- Spamming is not tolerated. This includes persistent posting of comments across multiple posts or platforms that say the same thing or an unrelated comment to the original post. These comments will be deleted, and the account posting them may be blocked without prior notice.