Here’s the flaw in the Boris hedge fund conspiracy theory

It is one of the most diabolical plots of all time, a conspiracy so vast, so deep, and so wicked it could have come from the pen of Dan Brown. A small cabel of powerful hedge funds have installed Boris Johnson at Number 10, paying for his campaign and his advisers. Once there, his task is to crash the UK out of the European Union without a deal, plunging the economy into chaos, and sparking a rout of sterling and a collapse in the FTSE. In the background, those same hedge funds will have ‘shorted’ the pound and the London equity market. In the process, they will make a few quick billion before they disappear to their Cayman Islands’ mansions to sip champagne and chuckle over the brilliance of their scheme.

Over the last week, some hard-core Remainers have been caught up in the ‘disaster capitalism’ explanation of Brexit. On Twitter, admittedly not the most sane forum, it is taken pretty much as gospel.