Again, you are funnee 
We are not bending our knee. You have completely misunderstood the basis of this and are seeing discrimination where none exists.
Try closing an account in France! If you don’t follow to the letter the LRAR process the account will follow you for the rest of your life.
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I’ve searched @ChrisMann’s reply to you but have failed to find any insult.
In fact he has apologised for potentially misconstruing your argument, which is polite rather than insulting.
Maybe you should apologise to him for implying that he insulated you?
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I would never insulate Mr (où Madame) Poons, although he is quite thin-skinned so perhaps needs it. 
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Exactly…
A genuine question, and in no way intended to be insulting, are you ok?
It feels to me like an unusual fixation on what is a fairly minor and reasonable bureaucratic process to provide assurance that the recipient is still alive and that payments aren’t being received fraudulently.
As I’ve said already, as a UK taxpayer it feels like a reasonable safeguard and not discriminatory.
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Yeh I did that, pretty sure that’s is what has knackered the chip in my passport, I can no longer use the auto gates going back to the UK and have had it confirmed at passport control that the chip in my passport won’t “open” - yes I can get my passport replaced for free but finding a suitable moment impossible at the moment, when I finally do, will avoid using my phone to read the chip in my passport.
I did not know that.
I’m inclined to agree with @Badger
Moreover a valid opinion remains a valid opinion no matter how many insults accompany it.
Though it is true that you are vanishingly unlikely to persuade anyone to drop their own opinion and take up yours if you insult them.
Which is why we try to encourage people to be polite on SF.
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I don’t suffer fools gladly, and life’s too short to spend time on fools. I have better things to do.
I would just block poons like I’m about to do.
I have no betters Poony old boy, and knee bending wouldn’t be an attribute of mine. Pretty well anybody that has ever pissed me off has regretted it. I’m a bit of a dog with a bone on that sort of thing, always have been, as any of my old friends will laughingly testify.
I could tell you some stories about battles with banks, government departments, telcos, etc. I fight them on the telephone, I fight them in emails, I fight them with registered letters, I fight them in the regulators, commissioners and other oversight bodies, I never surrender. 
But key to this is “being reasonable”. I would’t argue with any reasonable behaviour or request. I think filling in a form that says I’m still alive is a reasonable request.
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No, I’m sure not. It’s only reading the chip, not writing to it. Did you have your passport near some heavy weight magnetic source or radiation? Left it on top of something perhaps?
@Mark & @Longpete , you don’t have to move to lose letters. My experience after it happened to me was that the post office said that letters will no longer be delivered without the full new address given to many of us over the last year or so including a number and road name. Even though the post person knows full well who and where you are they are instructed not to deliver the letter.
I had several important letters go adrift without my knowledge as a result of this.
Edit: The above was written this morning just before my internet failed and I could send it, so if any of it is old hat and no longer relevant, please blame Orange.
Happened to us and got serious when stuff was returned to one of my pension companies and they thought I’d died. 
Note how I’m keeping on topic.
So we stopped pretending it didn’t matter (because the post lady knew where we lived) and swiftly contacted everybody who needed to know our full address. Mind you, if we’ve forgotten to tell someone we will never know now as none of their correspondence will reach us. 
In my case it could have been serious because at least 2 English credit card statements failed to arrive. Although I check my records against them each time in this case I had cancelled one purchase of a Kindle book and had it confirmed by Amazon UK. But they hadn’t and, not seeing the mistake in the missing statements I only paid what I thought I knew I was due to. As a result a penalty debit was added to my account which, of course I didn’t know about also.
The matter was eventually resolved and the penalty cancelled. I informed them of the now correct full address and they sent a letter confirming the new address…to the old address. 
Happily and surprisingly, that did arrive.
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When you say “All state pensioners living in the EU will have received a form to prove that you are still alive” I, for one, certainly have not and I’ve been a state pensioner for over 2 years! does this mean I’m deceased like a Norwegian Blue and didn’t notice?
No - this is quite normal! I’ve been a state pensioner for a long time and the arrival of these forms seems to be almost completely random. If they thought you were dead, you wouldn’t be getting your pension 
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It’s not every year and you have not reached the magic one yet. 
Test.
I got one several months after mine started and nothing since. My french pension providers send me emails to check every so often especially the reversion as if I was to remarry or co-habit with someone, it would stop so have to declare it yearly online. I really don’t understand all this fuss about getting a simple form signed and stamped at all, if it was to get a free gift, people would be fighting over getting their forms back asap.
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