In the course of the song's six minutes, the singer-pedlar makes ever-bolder claims for his wares.

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But disabilities campaigner Gwyneth Pedlar said her group Oxfordshire Unlimited had received complaints about the bus company before.

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Back in the early 1990s, when the Conservative Party was Britain's favourite pedlar of political fare, Labour was stuck with a downmarket brand that scared off the middle-classes.

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Like both men, he is not from the elite (he is the son of a pedlar), and can claim to represent social groups that have been excluded from power in his case, Ecuador's poor Andean Indian farmers.

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