Meatstick Thank You: Great Britain

I would like to thank Great Britain for the following:

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1. Ireland's partial independence (some is better than none)
2. Oasis
3. English Breakfast Tea
4. The Beatles
5. Winston Churchill
6. The Office
7. George Orwell
8. Roger Bannister
9. My language
10. The 2012 Olympics (London)
11. National Lampoons European Vacation
    

And Last but defintely not least:
12. Deciding to remove 1,600 troops from Iraq in the upcoming weeks and another 500 by the end of the summer

As an educational side note did you know that the flag of the United Kingdom is just a mix between the traditional flags of St. George, the flag of Scotland, and the cross of St. Patrick of Ireland: