Ginger group
A ginger group is a formal or informal group within, for example, a political party seeking to influence the direction and activity of the organisation as a whole. Ginger groups work to alter the party's policies, practices or office-holders, while still supporting its general goals.
The term derives from gingering a horse to make it seem more lively,[1] or "gingering up" a food or beverage to add flavour or spice.
Ginger groups sometimes form within the political parties of Commonwealth countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Pakistan.
See also
- Entryism, a more militant tactic not always supporting general goals
- Ginger Group (Canada), a radical group of left-wing Canadian MPs in the 1920s and early 1930s.
- Ginger Group (Queensland)
- Kitchen Cabinet, a term used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe his ginger group
- League of Empire Loyalists, a 1950s UK ginger group.
References
- ↑ "A member of the Zoological Society of London", ed. (1828). The Farrier and naturalist vol.I. Simpkin and Marshall. p. 89.
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