Constitutional crisis looms, as the Scottish parliament plans to hold its own vote on Article 50

Following the successful passing of votes in favour of Article 50, on Wednesday, after the members of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and other rebellious forces from the Labour party and failed to block the debate on the floor of the house. The Scottish government has said the devolved parliament will have to vote on the invocation of Article 50, despite the fact that such a vote is not binding.

Thus, they have set aside Tuesday, to indicate new height of tension in relationship which has kept the union for about 3-centuries, because the Scottish people voted to maintain their membership of the European Union.

This is because, it is widely believed by the Scottish government that the assembly in Edinburgh will send a very strong pointer that Scotland is poised to continuously retain their membership of the EU.

The Scottish government released a statement saying: “The Scottish government believes that given the fundamental change to our constitutional arrangements involved by triggering the formal withdrawal from the European Union, and the direct effect on the devolved responsibilities, the Scottish parliament should be invited to give view before the Bill is passed, and that the UK government should respect the views of the parliament,”