MPs Get Their Glow On

Normally Westminster is snooze city. Budgets, policy jargon, same old speeches. But recently, the place actually glowed — because they argued about neon. Yasmin Qureshi, Labour MP went all-in defending real neon. She blasted the plastic pretenders. Her line? Stop calling plastic junk neon. Sharp speech. Neon is heritage, not a gimmick. Chris McDonald piled in who bragged about neon art in Teesside. The benches buzzed.

Then came the killer numbers: from hundreds, only a handful remain. No new blood. Without protection, the craft dies. She floated certification marks. Protect the name. Then Jim Shannon got involved. 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 made glowing jokes. Deputy Speaker heckled him.

But behind the jokes, the case was strong. He listed neon legends: God’s Own Junkyard. He said glass and gas beat plastic. Where’s the beef? Simple: consumers are being conned. Craft gets crushed. Think Champagne. If names mean something, signs deserve honesty too. This was identity. Do we want every high street glowing with plastic sameness? We call BS: glass and gas forever. MPs argued over signs. No law yet, the fight’s begun. If it belongs in Parliament, it belongs in your bar.

Skip the plastic. Choose neon.


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