Bob Geldof has offered to immediately take in four families as he expressed disgust at the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe.

The aid campaigner and singer said he would open the doors to his family home in Kent and his luxury flat in Battersea, London - together worth an estimated £4million - in a personal response to the shocking scenes on borders, beaches and railway stations.

The harrowing image of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, who died with his five-year-old brother Galip and mother Rihan trying to reach the Greek island of Kos, has sparked an international outcry over the human cost of the crisis.

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Musician Bob Geldof has offered to personally take in families as he expressed disgust at the migrant crisis

Speaking today, Mr Geldof said: '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.

'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.'

The musician has owned the 12th century Davington Priory in Faversham, Kent, since the 1980s. The historic building he will open to refugees is a listed former Benedictine nunnery.

It is adjoined to the parish church of St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence and has a small connecting door leading from the Priory into the church.

Sir Bob's wedding to his first wife Paula Yates was blessed there in 1986 and daughter Peaches Geldof married husband Tom Cohen there in 2012.

But it has also been used for family funerals with both Paula's funeral being held there in 2000 and Peaches's funeral last year following her death from a drugs overdose aged 25.

Geldof told Ireland's RTE Radio: 'I can't stand what is happening. I cannot stand what it does to us.'

Migrants protest outside Keleti Railway station in Budapest - Bob Geldof has now offered to re-house four migrant families in what has become the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War

Desperate migrants are crowded in Budapest as they try to leave Hungary for Germany in a crisis that has engulfed the EU

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The Boomtown Rats frontman has been involved in humanitarian work for almost 40 years, most notably with the organising of the Live Aid concert in 1985 and the Band Aid Christmas single.

The 63-year-old said the pictures of Aylan's body and other distressing reports from borders and cities across Europe, were a source of shame.

He said: 'I look at it with profound shame and a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be. We are in a moment currently now that will be discussed and impacted on in 300 years time.'

Geldof said he was in his home last night and could not grasp the depth of the crisis and the limited response from governments when he decided he should put his money where his mouth is.

'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.'

Sir Bob is opening the doors of his house in Davington, near Faversham, (pictured) as well as his Battersea flat in London to help deal with the growing migrant crisis - it is worth an estimated £2million

The musician said he would his open the doors to his £2million flat in Battersea, London (pictured) in a personal response to the shocking scenes on borders, beaches and railway stations

Geldof said he was on the Italian island of Lampedusa 12 years ago where he visited a refugee camp and spoke to the mayor who said every morning dead men, women and children were being washed up on the rocks.

The aid campaigner described himself as a migrant.

He warned 'environmental decays' will worsen the migrant and refugee crisis in coming decades.

'All of this is happening now. We must have the politics and the humanity to deal with it. It makes me sick and a concert won't do it,' he added.

In June, Geldof said Europe could 'easily absorb' 250,000 refugees fleeing war-torn countries.

He said: 'The argument throughout Europe politically and nationally is migration causes huge problems, so you have to take that on board. Clearly the answer is to allow for these people to have a life in their own countries. No-one wants to leave their own country.'

There has been an extraordinary public and political reaction to harrowing images of three-year-old Ayan Kurdi who died with his brother and mother trying to reach the Greek island of Kos

His intervention comes as David Cameron used a visit to Portugal today to set out a commitment to welcome 'thousands' of Syrians living in UN refugee camps in Britain as he stepped up efforts to tackle the crisis.

The Prime Minister vowed that 'Britain will act with its head and its heart' as he announced plans to dramatically expand a scheme to resettle over 10 times more refugees in the UK.

But crucially, he ruled out playing any part in an EU quota scheme and there will be no move to accept any of the thousands of people who have reached Europe already.

It follows intense political and public pressure on the Prime Minister to rethink his policy.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby urged Mr Cameron to 'respond with compassion' while Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman said it was 'deplorable' that the government was 'putting its head in the sand and showing itself to be heartless and out of touch'.

Londoners are offering support and sanctuary to desperate refugees in the wake of the greatest refugee crisis since World War Two.

Town halls in the capital pledged action in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis as millions of Britons called on the Government to do more.

London Mayor Boris Johnson is gearing up for talks with town hall leaders on how best to help refugees escaping the war-torn Syria.

He said: 'It's absolutely right that an open and tolerant city like London stands ready to offer help and sanctuary to some of the most vulnerable children and families fleeing persecution in Syria.

'While we must not become a magnet for economic migrants, London's government and London Councils will work together to help those refugees in the greatest danger, those in fear of their lives.'

Elsewhere, more than 66,000 people have now signed up to march through London in a show of 'Solidarity with Refugees'.

The march, from Marble Arch to Downing Street, will take place on September 12, two days ahead of an emergency summit between EU leaders where figures including Home Secretary Theresa May are set to discuss the crisis and pressure mounts on the UK to do more.