Good try, guys, but this United Kingdom wikipedia club is not quite reaching quality levels of communicaton.  Jza84 and ddstretch both say they agree with Snowded, but what do they agree about?  I certainly don't have any transcendent knowledge about their agreement and they don’t say.  Please state your own opinions clearly rather than making a blanket agreement statement.  If what I wrote is not clear (if that is what you agree with), I will restate it, but please specify what I need to clarify.  It seems obvious that the four constitutent parts are getting more than their fair share of the attention in this article. The article already states (with a citation) that the four parts are not official divisions ('"should not be considered as first-order administrative divisions"').  Then it says that, historically, other divisions (county, parish, not to mention districts that succeeded the ecclesiastical districts, then ward and constituency) have been the subnational divisions.  It is anybody’s guess whether he latter are official divisions, relatively more official divisions than the vernacular ones of the 4 countries, or co-existing divisions with the 4 countries in the multiplistic complex arrangement that is the UK.  Moreover, despite the statement that there is "no common stratum of administrative unit encompassing the United Kingdom", the structure of 4 (Scotland, England, NI, and Wales) is used as just such a common stratum to describe local government and to structure the article.  This is a good, pretty textbook example of inconsistency.  If any of this is not clear, please be a good administrator and/or editor and be specific about should be clarified.  Thanks.