What if: Irish Potato Famine goes worse?

Not sure if this has been asked before, but here goes:

We all know how bad the Irish Potato Famine in 1845-1852 was, but what if, in January 1847, the Whig Administration decided to double down on their free market feeding strategy?

Instead of bothering to provide food for all, they just keep letting the prices get raised higher and higher by the merchants?

What would that mean for long term political and economic consequences? Besides Ireland really hating the English with a passion, that's going to be a given.
 
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