Employers will still be able to force workers to retire at 65 after a high court judge today turned down campaigners’ attempts to have the UK’s default retirement age (DRA) scrapped.

Mr Justice Blake said the rule, introduced in October 2006 as part of age discrimination laws, did not breach EU regulations and that it was “legitimate and proportionate” for the government to bring it in. Hilary Osborne, The Guardian.

Personally I’m going to hate having to work past 65, put the way things are panning-out I’m not going to have a choice not just to work past retirement but on until I drop dead – if I don’t starve.

I don’t know what Mr Justice Blake sees as “legitimate and proportionate”, you’d hope it wasn’t abject poverty – sadly Blake has just put many pensioners at risk of a having a very meagre retirement. Of course it would be preferable that pensioners didn’t need to work – unfortunately for most of us that’s a luxury we can’t afford.