A CAMPAIGNER has again hit out at her local MP and accused him of going back on his promise to support women affected by changes to the state pension age.

Marina Maley is a member of the Women Against State Pension Inequality group — a national campaign group set to fight what it believes are unfair changes to the State Pension Age.

While the campaign believes in pension equality with men, it wants ‘fair transitional’ arrangements for women such as Ms Maley who were born after April 6, 1951, and have seen their pension age rise rapidly from 60 to 65 throwing retirement plans into disarray.abd h. — to fall in line with men and had retirement plans thrown into disarray.

The 62-year-old, of Wigan Road, Westhoughton, has previously criticised Bolton West MP Chris Green after he pledged support to the campaign before voting against a Labour motion which called for transitional payments to be brought forward for affected women.

Since then, she has met with Mr Green and been buoyed by his support for the WASPI campaign — which has included him joining a cross-party Parliamentary group on the issue.

However, last week Mr Green helped to vote down a motion by Scottish National Party MP Ian Blackford, which asked for the Government to work with WASPI women to ‘further explore’ transitional protection for those affected.

Mr Green says the SNP motion was just ‘political grandstanding’ and has not affected his work on the subject, but Ms Maley said she has lost faith.

She said: “After last time, we have met with Mr Green and we thought he was fully on board.

“He told me the motion wouldn’t have made any difference but I think we have to fight in every way and supporting it would have shown his commitment.”

“I have lost all confidence in my MP, I feel let down — before this I was singing his praises all over Westhoughton.”

Mr Green stated: ”The SNP motion was designed to be as politically difficult as possible.

“It was political grandstanding and they did not have the support from across the house.”

He added: “I can continue to apply pressure on the subject in the most effective way, which is working with ministers behind the scenes.”