When asked what happened, Simpson said "It's called the ultra sensitivity of party politics in British Columbia."  He says it speaks of  "no discenting voice even if it is mild discent".

Simpson says the  move is the result of a "slow burn"  as a result in part of his  regular weekly column on the Williams Lake  website. "I have written in the past, being just as critical of the opposition  as  I have been of the other parties,  the UBCM is a chance for each of the  political party leaders to  set out their agendas for the coming year, and I said that I didn't think that any of the leaders took advantage of that."  He says in two sentences he panned  Premier Campbell's speech and  Stockwell Day's address and  the leader of the green party and says he was kicked out of caucus for saying Carole James' speech  lacked details.

Simpson says  his riding association has put forth a motion calling for a full leadership  convention in 2011.  "Fully  two thirds  of British Columbians, after 7 years  as Carole as leader, still don't  have an opinion of her or  don't believe she can be Premier.  I've been addressing that,  in particular since spring  I've been saying look, we're riding the HST gravy train  but its not giving us purpose.  We're not moving in the polls , Carole's numbers are not moving, our party's  in disarray, our membershjip is  walking and we need to do something more dramatic  and expansive.  And for the NDP we need to try and convince British Columbians  that we have the right  to govern,  we know what we want to govern to, and  we actually get a mandate and that's always been important to me.   I think that is the backdrop, the excuse is the two sentences in my column.  The reality is I had a meeting scheduled, for face to face  with me and Carole James next week to bring this to a head  and I think what's happening is they're avoiding that confrontation."

Simpson says British Columbians  don't elect governments, they just boot the others out,  and he would like to see  a return to  a government being elected because of its plans and visions "Elections should not be about  nasty ads and sound bites to take the other person down, they should  be a fight about principle, a fight about  policy and I think that  would bring a lot more people back because it becomes relevent again."

Simpson says he got a call from Carole James  last night and she offered him the right to make an apolgy "But I wasn't sure what I was being asked to apologize for,  so I declined,  and she said, so then  you're not part of my team." 

Simpson says Carole has never  reached out to him " She has never  pulled in me and said, lets have this out, what do  you need, can we agree to disagree,  what changes can we make?  At the end of the day if we can't get agreement, they would then say, you only have two options,  you either  stay with the program or  there's the door.  That's a fair process."