CONFUSED Tory MP Nadine Dorries voted in favour of Con-Dem attacks on firefighters’ pensions — days after posing for a photo with a Fire Brigades Union (FBU) T-shirt. 

Ms Dorries was pictured holding up the FBU T-shirt at a meeting in Parliament with firefighters from her Mid Bedfordshire constituency. 

But Ms Dorries was among 313 MPs who marched through the lobbies on Monday night to scupper Labour’s motion to stop the changes.

The firefighter who posted the photo on Twitter said he was “very disappointed” with Ms Dorries’s decision. 

“She’s been supportive but it when it came to the crunch she voted along party lines,” said the firefighter who wanted to remain anonymous. 

Six firefighters had travelled to London last Wednesday to ask Ms Dorries to vote to scrap plans to hike the pension age from 55 to 60. 

Government research shows that 60 per cent of firefighters would fail to pass fitness tests and face the sack and women firefighters would have to have the fitness levels of elite athletes to remain in the service. 

Ms Dorries had told MPs on Monday that she wanted a “firefighting force that is ready and able to do a job.”

Bedfordshire FBU brigade secretary Jamie Newell said the Tory MP had visited frontline firefighters at stations and even tried on the kit. 

He told the Star: “A couple of MPs had indicated they would abstain and I thought that’s the way that Nadine would go. 

“There’s a lot of disappointed members in Bedfordshire today because they thought our MPs were going to do better for them. 

“It seems like these people vote to serve themselves rather than to serve the people that elect them.”