HM Government money saving ideas

Is it because those on state pensions tend to vote Conservative.

Also you have the issue that apparently 1 in 4 pensioners is a millionaire if you take the pension pot and house into account, to get a pension circa £25,000 you need a pot of £600,000 ( seems high but that's what experts say ) 

the thing is I have a pension of £25,000 or so, but unless I remarry it dies with me. So although I appear to be well off I can't touch that money only take the pension.
Yes I'd say I'm relatively well off, again the average pension income is £360 or so a week after tax and housing costs, so I'm above average.

I saw someone the other day saying how good we had it with low mortgage rates, and how they now have to pay ridiculous rates like his current 4.5%, he point blank refused to believe that many of us paid 8/9/10% over the lifetime of our mortgages. I suppose the big difference is I bought a House on an £8000-£9000 salary at £23,000 with a £4,000 deposit. so I had a multiplier < 2.5, now many youngsters are looking at 5 x multiplier on joint incomes.
So on my mortgage at £20,000 at 10% that was £2,000 a year then MIRAS reduced that to around £1,500 then you had capital of say £500 making £2,000 a year this would equate to around 33% of my take home pay.
£200,000 at 5% would be £10,000  plus say £5,000 capital. £80,000 Salary  take home £56,200 so would be around 28% of take home pay.
the issue being many people on £80,000 have mortgages well in excess of £200,000
Also IIRC my rates on that house were < £200 a year and that included water, Now many pay £2,000 plus water

many younger people also find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that we paid tax on all our income there was no tax free allowance, and in the late 70's early 80's Income tax was 30p in the £.