This sign shows how the nationwide freakout over 'Great British Bake Off' just got political

LONDON -- The British realm has been thrown into chaos, and this time it's not voting to leave the European Union or a Viking invasion that has caused the uproar.

It's a television show about baking.

The Great British Bake Off recently announced that it would be changing hands from the BBC to Channel 4 -- a controversial move that has created much consternation across the British Isles.

And at a Jeremy Corbyn rally in Birmingham on Saturday, things turned political.

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Someone raised a sign emblazoned with the words: "Nationalise Bake Off". An amused Corbyn noted the poster, and addressed the demand in his speech:

"I think the fate of Bake Off is what happens when the BBC was allowed to contract out its programme-making somewhere else, and thus the public lost ownership of Bake Off.

"Shall we get it back?"

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The fate of the much-loved programme has instigated a nation-wide freak out, and even public figures such as Prince William have commented on the show's future.

Will Bake Off resist the pressures of privatisation? Can the power of political pressure prevail?

Only time will tell.