Fake General Teaching Council
The General Teaching Council does not represent teachers. It is a New Labour Fake. (A tautology if ever there was one).
25 members are elected by different groups of teachers.
17 nominations from stakeholder bodies such as parent groups, the National Governors Council, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission. The government in fact nominates members of these bodies too.

13 appointments by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills through the public appointments process. (The government appoints more than any one group of teachers)

9 nominations from the teacher unions/associations.

So the result is a General Teaching Council which is soft on New Labour and soft on the causes of New Labour. Its magazine is distributed to staffrooms at our expense and it is a virtually unreadable peaen of praise for the government's thrusting and dynamic policies for a world class education system.