Let’s be honest, the Commons is dull most nights. Foreign affairs and funding rows. But one night in May 2025, the place actually glowed — because they lit up over glowing tubes. Yasmin Qureshi, Labour MP went all-in defending authentic signage. She called out the fakes. Her line? Stop calling plastic junk neon. Sharp speech. Neon is an art form, not a gimmick. Chris McDonald piled in talking neon like a fanboy. Even the Tories nodded.

Then came the killer numbers: barely two dozen artisans still working. Zero pipeline. Skills vanish. Qureshi pushed a Neon Protection Act. Defend the glow. Then Jim Shannon got involved. He dropped stats. Neon market could hit $3.3 billion by 2031. His point: it’s not nostalgia, it’s business. Last word came from Chris Bryant. He couldn’t resist wordplay. He got roasted for dad jokes. But underneath the banter, the case was strong. He name-dropped icons: Tracey Emin’s art.

He even argued neon lasts longer than LED. Why all this noise? Simple: fake LED "neon" floods every online shop. Trust disappears. Think Scotch whisky. If those are protected, neon deserves the same. This was bigger than signage. Do we erase 100 years of glow for LED strips? Smithers says no: glass and gas forever. So yeah, Parliament went neon. Nothing signed, the fight’s begun. If MPs can fight for neon, so can you. Dump the LEDs. Bring the glow.