Socially they were under more control also than Wilson had bargained for. He apparently had expected them to be hard-drinking, hard-swearing toughs. He accordingly peppered his language with oaths and was considerably taken aback to find that few of his hearers drank and none of them swore. Quite politely they informed him of their demands, which included a withdrawal of British troops to barracks (in preparation for ultimate withdrawal), the abolition of Stormont, and a declaration by Britain that she had no right to interfere in Irish affairs.
