Originally Posted by Fudd:
“There was a reference in The End of Time that the Time Lords who were punished by Rassilon were like Weeping Angels...if they actually are then maybe they would help the Doctor...but then why did they kill in the Aplan Mortarium? Sending people through time allowed them to gain power, but death?”
I thought it was basically that when they voted against him they were told to "be like the weeping angels of old" by standing with their hands over their eyes in front of everyone.
At the time I took it to be the Time Lord equivalent of making them stand in the corner facing the wall, or wearing a dunces hat.