Slight Error!

As I couldn't really explain the Isle of Man's involvement in the UK very well I decided to do a little research... and this is what I dug up:

Nuts... can't copy and paste! grrrrrrrrr

Here's the link if you are interested ;)

http://www.iomguide.com/government.php

Basically it says that Man is NOT a part of the UK and is totally independant (where was their olympic team then? :P)

However, The Isle of Man is a 'dependancy' in the same way that Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands are all dependancies.

And to clarify on the flag issue, Tom, St Georges cross is the national flag of England. The Union Jack is the flag of the UK (it is made up of the flags of St George (England), St Andrew (Scotland) and St Patrick (Ireland) to symbolise the union of these three countries)