my ex is bummed out with me because i do not like his current girlfriend WTF

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mylotters help me out here what the hell! so my ex has a new girlfriend, ahhhh maybe i should start at the beginning. my ex and i broke up not because there was no love left there or because we had a falling out. nay it was all fate or whatever. it was a geographical thing, we met in england he is australian, i had to leave to come over here and well he went back home to australia, so the only sensible thing was to break up. there were still strong feeling there, this was a year and a half ago. fast forward to about six months ago he got himself a new girl or whatever due to lonliness and whatever. that was fair enough i was gutted of course because we were sorta doing the long distance thing, we were and still are pretty close. anyways this new girl in my estimation is a silly, frivolous high maintenace creature who does not have his best interests at heart. but well he seems to be attached to her, i guess he just does not know how to be alone and not be in a relationship. i have been giving him advice about his relationship and all that being in a nutshell a great friend to him. now let us focus here people, he moved on before i did, HE found someone else. so why in the crispy creme hell am i in this postition. for some unfathomable reason he needs my approval, and he is upset with me now because he is not getting it. we talk every day on msn, i am one of those people who give space, thing is i wait for him to start chatting to me. but lately it has just been weird, and i don't get why he even cares what i think about her, i am not the one dating here. what is that about. i know for a fact that he would not be as cool as i am being if the roles were reversed if i had moved on first in record time and hooked up with someone. he would not be giving me advice or be cool with me talking about my new man if i had one. i am considering not talking to him for a while, can someone please explain to me what is going on here. if he is serious about this girl, who he does not gush about by the way. i personally think that he is with her for the wrong reasons. now i have not said this to him, but he says he knows that i do not like her. it is simply that i do not think that she is giving him what he needs and she is a pretty needy person, he fights with her all the time and he told me himself that it is sometimes like dealing with a child. it just annoys me the attitude that he has taken on this, i do not have to like her and why is it so important for me to like her. i saved her bacon when he wanted to kick her to the curb by giving him some advice, is this not enough? what more is expected of me. i was his friend even when my heart was broken. now i am cool with the way things are and i have been over him for a while now, but therein lies the problem, we are best friends too, and were friends before we started dating. i am not sure how to tell him to just deal without hurting his feelings although i want to just say suck it up b@tch, if you really care about this girl whatever i say or think should not matter one bit. so am i missing something here?