Ginger Winship

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Harold "Ginger" Winship is a character in the Jeeves and Wooster book Much Obliged, Jeeves (U.S. title Jeeves and the Tie that Binds), by British comic writer P.G. Wodehouse. A members of the Drones Club, Ginger was apparently an "old school chum" of the main character in the series, Bertie Wooster.

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Ginger Winship was the fiance – for a short period of time – of Lady Florence Craye, who was herself a former fiancée of Bertie Wooster. Bertie tries – successfully – to extricate Ginger from the clutches of a woman who Bertie himself calls a "female sergeant major". Florence Craye forces Ginger to stand for Parliament as a Conservative, from the district of Totleigh-in-the-Wold, home of Sir Watkyn Bassett. At the same time, however, Ginger is becoming besotted with his secretary, Magnolia Glendenen. Ginger clearly has no talent at all in the way of politics, and his continually bad performances in speeches raise Florence's ire. Because of this, she tells him that if he fails to win the election, she will not marry him. As this is what Ginger wants, he doesn't dispute the matter.

Meanwhile, a member of the Junior Ganymede Club, Brinkley, steals the "Club Book", which details all the exploits of the employers of the mambers of the club. (The Junior Ganymede Club's membership are all butlers and valets, such as both Jeeves and Brinkley, predominantly to "gentlemen" who are members of the Drones Club, such as Bertie Wooster.) The Book apparently has some information about Mr. Winship that would scrap his chances of being elected in ultra-conservative Totleigh-in-the-Wold. Brinkley at first tries to sell the book to Winship's Labour Party opponent, Mrs. McCorkadale. She refuses and the book is safely returned.

Ginger, however, has not given up his goal of losing the election. At the debate, he appears after Mrs. McCorkadale's impassioned socialist rhetoric and states, (in the film version of the scene):