Sri-Lankan Born British Postman Faces Being Fired for Refusing to Serve Non-English Speakers
Deva Kumarasiri is a Sri-Lankan-born postmaster and father-of-two.
For the past six months, he has been running the very small - you can barely move behind the counter with all the parcels, papers and Jiffy bags - but very busy Post Office in Sneinton, a particularly multicultural area of Nottingham.
He also flies enormous Union Jack flags from his home and Land Rover Discovery and, earlier this week, admitted he had introduced a rule for his customers - ‘No English, no service.’
If they can’t even be bothered to learn English, he tells them, they must go away and learn it, or come back with a translator…
…’We have a terrible problem in Britain today.
‘We don’t know who our neighbours are, we’re losing our sense of community, and it can only get worse if your neighbour doesn’t speak the same language, because then you get lack of understanding, and fear, and so often racism.
‘It’s all down to language. The fabric of the nation begins to unravel if we don’t speak the same language.’