Geldof: “The current migrant crisis is ‘a f*cking disgrace”, and “i am ashamed of how the West has handled the crisis” – TheLiberal.ie – Our News, Your Views

Geldof: “The current migrant crisis is ‘a f*cking disgrace”, and “i am ashamed of how the West has handled the crisis”




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Former singer and avid human rights campaigner Bob Geldof has said he is deeply ashamed of how the European Union is handling of the migrant crisis.

The former Boomtwon Rats front man said that what is currently going on regarding the current migrant crisis is a disgrace. Geldof  made his comments whilst speaking to Dave Fanning on RTE Radio 1 this morning, the world renowned activist has even offered to help struggling families by offering four his vaccant homes in the UK.

Geldof told Fanning what’s going on is “a f***ing disgrace. This is an absolute, sickening disgrace”. He went on to say: “I’m prepared offer my help.” “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.”

Meanwhile Geldof slammed Europe’s response to the crisis saying he was ashamed of the West for not doing more to help those in desperate need.

Geldof said: “I look at it with profound shame. 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.”

Geldof says basic human greed and a the lack of new politics are to blame for the current crisis. Geldof explained: “Power has been sucked out of the West and moved East. Technology once it met money and was multiplied by human greed collapsed the world economy. “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. “I cannot stand what is happening. I cannot stand what it does to us.”

He added: “The bollocks we talk about, our values, are complete nonsense. Once it comes home to roost we deny those values. We betray ourselves. But those values are correct. And it happens time and time and time again. “We are better than this, we genuinely are.”

Geldof also called for UK leader David Cameron to take immediate regarding the escalating crisis. Geldof said “I do understand when Cameron says the root cause needs to be addressed. Yes it must, but we are in a period of fundamental shift” “When people are poor they move. I am an economic migrant, Britain accepted me and let me get on with it. This is happening again, except it’s people fleeing war, not famine or economic hardship.”

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