The editorial in the Morning Star last week put it well:“The supermarkets and energy companies don’t operate a free market so much as a free-for-all, using their power in the marketplace to enrich themselves and beggar the rest.”Before Labour took power in 1945, Quintin Hogg, a Tory MP, warned Parliament:“if you do not give the people social reform, they are going to give you social revolution.”—Official Report, House of Commons, 17 February 1943; Vol 386, c 1818.The people have given the Scottish Government a mandate based on an expectation that it will provide protection from the Tory cuts.