WASPI women have a right to be angry - but there was never any 'theft'

“I paid for it every pay day. Never happened. It was delayed and delayed again. V50s women are owed our own money. Don’t make excuses. Politics is about priorities. Give us what we are owed and what we paid for.”

No wonder Marwick was unimpressed. Indeed, she’d be entitled to feel blindsided by this given Labour’s pledges ahead of the last election that WASPI women would be compensated.Her sentiment echoes that expressed in 2019 by Dodds’s colleague Angela Rayner, who declared: “The government failed the women who were born in the 1950s.

Of course, an alternative method of this would have been to reduce the state pension age for men to 60, but a country with a rapidly ageing population would never have seriously considered that move. There was no actual contract. As Rayner said, there was only an “agreement that they thought they had”. This is not to say that no WASPI women lost out due to the DWP’s failure to act promptly when it realised that a large proportion of women were unaware of the changes that would affect them.

Therein perhaps lies the source of the intergenerational skirmishes we’ve seen online since the ombudsman published its report. The likes of Angela Rayner must take some responsibility for convincing so many women that they have indeed been victims of a direct theft, for which a Labour government will soon be along to compensate them. Those women have every right to feel betrayed, but they should never have been sold that lie to begin with.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories.

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