When I'm 65.....

There seems to be a failure by successive governments to appreciate that employment requires two parties - an employee and an employer. There has been much concentration over the years on the rights, needs and desires of the employee, but little or no regard for those of the employer. This government now intends to do away with the compulsory retirement age - the mantra being "those who want to continue to work after 65 will now be able to do so". But what if the employer doesn't want them to continue working beyond 65? It's a sad but inevitable fact that as we get older many if not most of us are not as quick - physically or mentally - as we once were. We don't have the ambition and drive that we once had. What we do have is experience, and our employer may be happy to keep us on just for that, but should he or she be forced to continue to employ somebody who is doing no more than just about getting by, simply because for whatever reason they don't feel like retiring just yet?