Is there actual reason to think this guy had something like a short position on the British economy before contributing to Brexit or is it just a meme
There’s every reason to get believe the worst about this guy, he’s so evil he would be out of place as a comic book villain. Well, maybe unless it was one of those edgy political comics.
That said the cash is just a side effect and the actual reason he put this together, as i understand it, is to get revenge for Britain banning fox hunting.
There’s the small matter of his Dad, a former editor of The Times, having written a book about how to profit from disaster capitalism.
This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.