Sir Bob Geldof Says Migrants Crisis Is 'A Sickening Disgrace,' Offers To Take In Four Refugee Families

Irish singer and songwriter Sir Bob Geldof opens his heart and house. He offers to take in four refugee families immediately and shelter them in his houses at Kent and London, according to RTE.

"If there's a new economy then there needs to be a new politics, and it's a failure of that new politics that's led to this disgrace, this absolute sickening disgrace," Geldof said in an interview on RTE Radio One, referring to the migrant crisis.

"I'm prepared - I'm lucky, I've a place in Kent and a flat in London - me and (partner) Jeanne would be prepared to take three families immediately in our place in Kent and a family in our flat in London, immediately, and put them up until such time as they can get going and get a purchase on their future," he added.

After the buzz of the photographs of three-year-old Syrian Aylan Kurdi's dead body getting washed up on a beach in Turkey earlier last week, after his family failed to immigrate, Geldof was moved to see it, and called it a source of shame, according to hngn.

The conflict in Syria has displaced almost four million people, while thousands have died while they tried to escape to Europe, according to The Independent.

Sir Bob Geldof called his government's giving shelter to just 260 families a "f****** disgrace. "It is a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be," he said."We are in a moment that will be discussed and impacted upon in 300 years time, a fundamental shift in the way the world has worked for the last, say, 600 years.

"I can't stand what is happening. I cannot stand what it does to us.

"If there's a new economy there needs to be a new politics. There isn't and it's that failure of new politics that has led to this f***ing disgrace.

"This absolute, sickening disgrace."