40% of UK pensioners are living in poverty.
Tory MP David Willets wrote a book called The Pinch, which was an attempt to make a case to shaft the boomer generation.
He basically framed boomers as a kulak class, his party could target for benefit cuts.
Definitely an instance of the politics of envy, his party claimed to despise.
I think the problem is that the media tend to frame boomers as all having moved into the property-owning middle-class, and forget that the vast majority did unskilled jobs, which paid very little money, and didn't provide the luxury of a final-salary pension.
These are the people who would have been made unemployed during Thatcher's jobs cull.