Normally Westminster is snooze city. Foreign affairs and funding rows. But recently, things got weird — because they lit up over glowing tubes. Yasmin Qureshi, best real neon signs Labour MP went all-in defending glass-and-gas craft. She tore into LED wannabes. Her line? LED strips for £30 don’t count. Sharp speech. Neon is an art form, not a gimmick. Backing her up was Chris McDonald talking neon like a fanboy.

Cross-party vibes were glowing. Then came the killer numbers: from hundreds, only a handful remain. No apprentices. Skills vanish. She called for law like Harris Tweed or Champagne. Defend the glow. Even Strangford had its say. He waved growth reports. Neon market could hit $3.3 billion by 2031. His point: it’s not nostalgia, it’s business. Closing the circus was Chris Bryant. He couldn’t resist wordplay. Deputy Speaker heckled him. But underneath the banter, he admitted neon mattered.

He listed neon legends: Piccadilly Circus. He even argued neon lasts longer than LED. Where’s the beef? Simple: consumers are being conned. Craft gets crushed. Think Champagne. If those are protected, neon deserves the same. This wasn’t just politics. Do we let craft die for cheap convenience? We’ll keep it blunt: glass and gas forever. The Commons got its glow-up. No law yet, but the glow is alive. If it belongs in Parliament, it belongs in your bar.

Bin the fakes. Bring the glow.