Britain’s best chance of getting revenge on Brussels for its Brexit bullying is to remain in the European Union.

For the EU’s most fanatical and full-throated theologians, few outcomes could be more horrific than an intransigent, hostile Britain trapped in a project that it plots to undermine from the inside.

They took solace in the galvanising effect Brexit had on their moribund dreams of closer integration but would be hamstrung in their efforts to stop Britain systematically dismantling them by using the bloc’s rules against it.

What should be clear to all now is that all hope of a successful Brexit has been lost, irredeemably fumbled by this blundering government out-thought and out-fought at every turn by an organised, professional EU.

True Brexiteers must channel Shakespeare's Richard III, the dissembling hunchback who while praising the “glorious summer” of peace, plotted against the regime that ended the War of the Roses.

Britain still has the right to unilaterally revoke Article 50 and retain all its rights and opt-outs as if the referendum had never happened.

Doing so would come at a short-term cost, most likely the defenestration of Theresa May. It is at this point that true Brexiteers must take control of the government and wage a guerilla-style campaign of sabotage and frustration.