If political storytelling were an Olympic sport, Fred Mitchell would be somewhere on the podium—though perhaps not for consistency.

Let’s take his latest performance: a passionate defense of the New Day Progressive Liberal Party government’s push for a brand-new hospital, wrapped neatly in a critique of Dr. Dwayne Sands and the Free National Movement (FNM). According to Mr. Mitchell, the previous administration left behind plans so disastrously incomplete that they forgot essentials like airflow and, quite memorably, “taking the old pipes out”—a revelation that sounds less like a construction critique and more like a late-night plumbing horror story.

Now, that would be a serious indictment—if, of course, there were any evidence presented to support it.

Because here’s the curious part: these allegedly catastrophic flaws in the Princess Margaret Hospital renovation plans have only now emerged as a central talking point. Not during the transition. Not when the works were underway. Not even when the New Day government made the very consequential decision to halt, review, and ultimately abandon those same plans. No—these details arrive now, conveniently timed, like a plot twist that wasn’t in the original script.