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Strange he voted Remain unless he thought Brexit would be bad for him at that time.
As long as he cares about you as a friend I guess?
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If he benefits from Brexit, Brexit=good.
Political divides can generally be described exhaustively by reference to people's understanding of the concept 'good'. The most fundamental divide is that between those who think that 'good' means 'good for me/my close family/those I care about, etc.' and those who understand it as 'good per se'. The former are generally in the grip of lack of understanding, poor education, or serious personal problems, which are not the only causes leading to their false conception, but the most directly explanatory ones.
tl;dr--He's pitiable rather than contemptible.
JWestland
Oliver Schick
@nick_h.
I have a pro-Brexit friend. He voted remain, but now thinks Brexit is marvellous. He's some sort of venture capital private equity person, and rich. If I say Brexit is a criminal disaster he's got all these numbers about money wasted by Eurocrats, and how all the aggro in the UK with higher prices, empty shelves etc is because of Covid and/or China. He's got so many numbers in his head that I can't keep up. (Actually I have ME so my brane can't keep up with lots of things.) Anyway, he's one of my best friends, so all this is very upsetting. Being rich he's also self-centred and doesn't care about poor people or farmers or fishermen. If he benefits from Brexit, Brexit=good.