In message , at 19:44:28 on Sat, 3
Jul 2010, Paul Terry remarked:
AIUI, from comments in u.t.l. by Colin Rosentheil and others, the costs
don't fall equitably on local authorities at present - in particular,
those that are popular holiday resorts or tourist destinations end up
paying for a lot of "out of area" visitors.

They are allegedly "not compensated enough" for those out-of-area
visitors. It doesn't seem very difficult to tweak the formulae a little
to take account of this[1], so the bad guys here are those who don't
want to do that.

[1] Assuming that policy objectives are indeed for it to be completely
neutral irrespective of the journeys being made.
--
Roland Perry