Shameless politicians’ Covid scandals – wild events, sleazy bum seize and ‘eye take a look at’

Covid-19 caused mayhem across the world for many people. Luckily in the UK, we could keep ourselves equally enraged and entertained by some of our politicians of the time

It’s been five years since we were plunged into lockdown thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions tragically lost their lives and many still suffer from the complicated illness to this day.

And while you think a deadly virus was bad enough, in the UK, we also had to deal with a bunch of clown politicians that made being stuck inside that much more insufferable.

Here, we take you back on a journey on some of the wildest politics moments from the Covid era that they’d probably rather you forget.

But, unfortunately no matter how hard any of us try, Matt Hancock’s sordid affair will never be fully erased from our minds…

Matt Han-can’t keep it in his pants

To get the ball rolling, we take you back to a time that not only our then Health and Social Care Secretary would like to forget – but the whole world would like to do so too.

While Matt Hancock was largely in charge of the health services in UK during the pandemic, he failed to follow the guidance to ‘stop the spread’ his government ordered upon the rest of the nation.

And if you lived under a rock during 2021(good for you) then let us fill you in. To the shock of literally everyone, Matt Hancock was revealed to be having a workplace affair with director at the Department of Health and Social Care, Gina Coladangelo.

He was caught red-handed on camera as he kissed and embraced his colleague, while his wife – and mother of his children – Martha Hoyer Millar was none-the-wiser back at home.

A “very sorry” Matt admitted to breaking social distancing rules and announced that he “let people down” with the sordid affair.

The least our former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care could have done was provide us with state sanctioned lobotomies! Instead, he decided to make us endure more needless suffering by eating a kangaroo’s appendage on I’m A Celeb…

BoJo’s ‘Diana’ moment

Diana was the people’s princess, and Boris Johnson was the people’s clown. But, that didn’t stop him from trying to attempt a classic Lady Di moment that won her the hearts of millions.

Though, spoiler alert, it massively backfired. Remember in 1987 when Diana decided to make the, back then, bold move of shaking hands with an AIDs patient without gloves.

She would become the first person with profile to do so, helping erase the stigma around those with HIV. Fast-forward to 2020, our then Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to take somewhat of a leaf out of Diana’s book.

However, what he failed to realise was that shaking the hands of Covid patients would very much likely cause him to become infected with the disease.

BoJo boasted that he ‘shook hands with everybody’ on a hospital visit, despite the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) advising the public not to shake hands as the outbreak grew.

It was then later announced that then Prime Minister had tested positive for Covid, which ultimately resulted with him being transferred to an intensive care unit.

He then made a full recovery just in time for his infamous ‘cheese and wine’ garden event the next month…

Tory HQ Xmas partygate

On the topic of parties, remember that equally cringe-worthy and infuriating Christmas party had by Conservative HQ?

Just when you thought you had forgotten about the many instances of “unauthorised gatherings” in Westminster during the periods of lockdown and social distancing rules, we’re here to remind you the partiest part of partygate.

On 14 December 2020, Conservative Party employees had a Xmas-do where they sung, dance and scoffed a buffet.

That’s when the rest of us were having to accept that we couldn’t spend Christmas with loved ones or even visit poorly family in hospital.

The bash was held by the team of the Conservative party’s London-mayoral candidate at the time, Shaun Bailey.

He then later stepped down from his position as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee after the gathering was uncovered by the press.

How? Well, they were silly enough to take a photo and video evidence of it!

With Christmas cracker hats on their heads and armed with champagne flutes, some attendees were filmed spinning around and awkwardly dancing at the boozy affair…

Dominic Cummings ‘eye test’

We should all go to the likes of Specsavers, but it looks like Dominic Cummings took his eye health a bit too seriously.

On a mission to ‘test’ his eyes, Cummings, then senior aide to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, used the innovative method of driving to *checks notes* Barnard Castle.

Cummings was staying in Durham for ‘self-isolation’ purposes with family, a near 300-mile detour from his digs in London.

In a bid to ‘test’ his eyesight before he made the long journey back home, Cummings drove some 30 miles to the quaint town.

It just so happens that he wanted to test his eyes on a very sunny Easter Sunday.

He and his wife were spotted by locals in Barnard Castle, despite their trip up North used for isolating purposes as they were displaying Covid-19 symptoms.

Obviously, we here at Daily Star HQ and most of the British public questioned such a ridiculous excuse. We published a front page advising against Cummings’ test wasn’t probably not the best thing to do.

Psychologists would later note that the general public adopted a “Dominic Cummings effect”, where people would flout the rules and undermine government advice with some rather bizarre excuses.