Bob Geldof Calls Migrants Crisis 'A Sickening Disgrace,' Offers To Take In Four Refugee Families, Irish singer/songwriter Bob Geldof has offered to take in four refugee families immediately and accommodate them in his houses in 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.
Three-year-old Syrian Aylan Kurdi's dead body washed up on a beach in Turkey earlier this week after a failed immigration attempt, as HNGN previously reported. Geldof, who has campaigned on a number of social issues, expressed his disgust at such incidents, calling them a source of shame.
"I look at it with profound shame and a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be," he said. "We are in a moment currently now that will be discussed and impacted on in 300 years time."
"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.
Three-year-old Syrian Aylan Kurdi's dead body washed up on a beach in Turkey earlier this week after a failed immigration attempt, as HNGN previously reported. Geldof, who has campaigned on a number of social issues, expressed his disgust at such incidents, calling them a source of shame.
"I look at it with profound shame and a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be," he said. "We are in a moment currently now that will be discussed and impacted on in 300 years time."
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