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The aid campaigner said he will open the doors of his family home in Kent and his flat in London in response to the increasingly distressing scenes being seen on beaches across Europe and on
borders. He hit out at the British Government's response to the crisis in a foul-mouthed tirade on live radio, and called it a "f***ing disgrace". The Boomtown Rats frontman,
said: "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 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. "It is a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what
we wish to be. "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 is an absolute, sickening disgrace. "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." "I've known, you've known, and everyone
listening has known that the b******* we talk about, our values, are complete nonsense," he said. "Once it comes home to roost we deny those values, we betray ourselves, but those
values are correct, and it happens time and time again. "So we are better than this, we genuinely are." Almost four million people hace been displaced by the Syrian civil war over
the past four-years and thousands have died trying to flee persecution by making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe. Other European countries have taken in millions of
asylum seekers but the UK has taken in just 216 - not enough to fill a jumbo jet. Mr Geldof is well-known for using his status to raise millions of pounds for charity and was a founding
member of supergroup Band Aid in 1984 when they raised millions to help lift Ethiopians out of poverty.