Wonder if this will result in a freeze of new accounts like Starling?
I do wonder how people manage to get away with these things considering you have to provide ID etc. 
ID I could understand, but surely the card will be posted to Buckingham Palace or wherever? I’m guessing that most people couldn’t just roll up and ask for the card.
There are loads of posts on Chinese social media of people having it delivered to random addresses and asking people to pick up the card. I think there are a few “known” addresses where it’s a little… easier to collect
I must try that sometime with the postcode I use when places insist on one and I don’t think they need it. Turns out it’s a pizza shop in London. I sometimes wonder if they’re inundated with junk mail courtesy of me 
Blocking physical card all together and use the virtual one?
Hmmm. So, assuming that would work (and why wouldn’t it?), stage 2 would be to apply for Flex in the name of Charles Windsor and start spending. I can see why they got fined so much now!
There was a Reddit post few days ago (now deleted), the person had an over draft of £1k, and Flex limit of £3k. They claim tney opened the account while on a visit in the UK. So they were asking if there was anything that would stop them from spending this money.
I had taken a screenshot for some of the comments before it was deleted.
Quite a few posts on socials about going home and leaving the debt generated in this country behind. Wish there was a better cross-border enforcement mechanism for it; but in reality most countries are very difficult to give out credit to foreigners so it doesn’t benefit them. What we get for being fair I guess.