To be a good controversialist / contrarian you have to be at least a bit clever, and interesting, and have some talent to react to events.
Lawrence is none of these things, unfortunately for him, and in a typically on-brand way is shit at being a controversialist, just as he was a shit actor and a thoroughly shit musician. I'm not even going to dignify his cosplay as a politician by ranking it "shit".
He'd like to think of himself as the cooling reproductive effluent of an ill advised drunken fumble between Farage and the late Hitchens, but can't react to events, has less common touch than Matt Hancock, and has only a dog eared and tragic pack of top trumps online wind ups, which everyone else is fed up playing. After all when the government is railing against "woke" culture, whatever that is, why do we need this fifth rate shop window dummy to parrot a slightly edgier version of government messaging?
I'm not sure why his wealthy hedge fund backer is propping up this charade. I mean, it's not like he's ever going to, dare I say it "Reclaim" any of his investment. I put it down to a fundamental lack of creativity. If he were to load all that money into a skip and video himself setting it on fire whilst emitting a whining noise, it would, like the K Foundation's burning of a million quid, be in all the contemporary cuture books for decades to come as a challenging piece of nihilistic end-times performance art. Instead he gets to go down as a reactionary bigot backing a three legged horse that's bound for the knacker's yard.
Lawrence is clearly not very well, friendless, unhappy, living an empty online life, estranged from his family, with only paid for clicks and likes and a handful of trolls for company. The hateful bigoted shite he spews out douses any tinge of human sympathy, instead just provoking a greasy contemptous wipe of him from the whiteboard of contemporary life.
Like athlete's foot and infected follicles he's best ignored. What a tragic fuckwit, and what a waste of many gold-plated opportunities to do something worthwhile with a life.