This is a uni essay but it's the kind of thing I'd post here anyway, partly because it touches on the same themes but in more detail, and partly because the only way I can bring myself to write essays is if I write them like blogposts. I swear down this is how I sent this in, including citing Sam[]zdat, because I just don't care anymore: Though one could argue globalisation has been a phenomena since as far back as the founding of the Dutch East India company in 1602, the question is whether the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union, Brexit, will fundamentally alter the economic climate of the last forty years, which, as Robert Scott describes, has been “an era of globalization driven by deregulation and the ceding of power over trade and regulation to international institutions like the EU and the World Trade Organization.” (Scott, 2016) In this essay I will firstly attempt to detail how globalised neoliberalism came about, and then how the United Kingdo