Benny Johnson: “It's not like some referendum passed to bring the whole of…”

“But, you know, at some, at some point, you have a group of people who are native to the land and their ancestors built it and without their permission. And that's what I think is so important. It's not like some referendum passed to bring the whole of Somalia or Sudan into Northern Ireland. They just did it. Nobody asked permission. Nobody put it to a referendum. It is one of the most agreed. It's not a republic if that's the case, because this is fundamentally, it's not like a penny tax.” (04:54–05:00)

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