Normally Westminster is snooze city. Tax codes, pensions, boring bills. Yet last spring, MPs went rogue — because they debated neon signs. Bolton’s Yasmin Qureshi lit the place up defending real neon. She tore into LED wannabes. Her line? LED strips for £30 don’t count. Sharp speech. Neon is heritage, not some strip light fad. Chris McDonald piled in who bragged about neon art in Teesside. Cross-party vibes were glowing. Then came the killer numbers: barely two dozen artisans still working.

No apprentices. Without protection, the craft dies. She floated certification marks. Defend the glow. Then Jim Shannon got involved. He talked money. Neon market could hit $3.3 billion by 2031. His point: neon is a future industry. Last word came from Chris Bryant. He cracked neon puns. The benches laughed. But underneath the banter, the government was paying attention. He nodded to cultural landmarks: Tracey Emin’s art.

He even argued neon lasts longer than LED. Why all this noise? Simple: plastic strips are sold as neon. Craft gets crushed. Think Scotch whisky. If those are protected, neon deserves the same. This wasn’t just politics. Do we erase 100 years of glow for LED strips? Smithers says no: real neon rules. The Commons got its glow-up. Still just debate, the fight’s begun. If MPs can fight for neon, so can you.

Bin the fakes. Choose neon.