Me and my friends keep getting kicked out of the party, even the party leader gets kicked,...

I prefer it to be and stay like how the Xbox Live Party system works on 360 where just the leader gets to kick. Sure you get some meanies who just kick you out, but start a new party, get a bunch of other friends and peps in it, and if they return, return
the favour by kicking them out. I don't consider Xbox Parties a democracy regarding who gets kicked out. It's fair enough that the host should get the privilege. You get some really nice hosts and some who are like, rrr wha'ts s/he like.

Set party to friends only?? But yeah, there should be a kick function for the party leader.

If you're getting kicked out of parties those people aren't really your friends. Even if my friend was being annoying I wouldn't kick them without a clear warning about being annoying.

dude me and 4 of my xbox live friends just went through the same thing. we'll be gaming on codb2 then someone lags out at the beginning or half way through or we all get kicked into our own parties and out of the match or we all get kicked from the party
and strat to xbox dashboard. i just keep getting 'error with cod:bo2 servers'. WHY?!?!?!?!?

Party leaders do need the ability to kick someone out of the party. And my reasoning is... often times a friend in my party will leave longer than expected. His controller goes to sleep and then my party has to listen to ambient noise. Yeah we could all
mute him. But i'd rather kick him and then re invite him when he comes back.