Potato Blight, is this a sensible plan

It does just sound like a nasty case of wet weather.  Kent is sopping in water so Cumbria must be ....

I would bag all the potato haulms and any tubers you want to dispose of and put them in the council green waste.  They used a very HOT composting system so it should be quite safe.

This from the Potato Council: Gardeners Advice For Potato Blight

"If there is an outbreak in an allotment, it’s not just the potatoes close by that are at risk. Each blight lesion on a leaf or stem can release around 120,000 spores a day that can infect potatoes in other allotments and fields, so it is vital to keep a keen eye out for any signs of blight, and treat it accordingly. If you grow potatoes, bag, bin, and, where possible, burn any affected plants."

This makes me feel like hauling the infected halms back out of my compost bin to be on the safe side, though they are breaking down rapidly in the heat of the bin at the moment. I don't want to be a source of contamination for my and other's plots next year.

Then again, this extract comes from the Garden Organic website, "Factsheet about potato blight:

Composting tops and tubers: "Blight infected potato haulms (foliage) can be composted – well buried in a good active heap. Alternatively bury them in trench in the soil.The likelihood of resistant spores being present is very slim. Never try to compost tubers; they are best put in your green waste bin. Potato peelings tend to break down quickly and rarely re-sprout and so are considered fine to compost, but not if they are particularly thickly cut."

My compost is cooking down quite rapidly so I should be ok, but this problem hits our allotment heavily every year. I don't want to make things worse. 

 

The only thing that slightly concerns me about rotavating is that you might end up transferring some diseased soil onto the rotavator, and end up later transferring the disease onto clean soil elsewhere.

Don't know if this is a realistic fear though.

Yorkie, I always pressure-wash the rotavator on the back lawn after use so I'm not worried about transferring spores onto clean soil.

Jamboian, no offence taken. As they say up here, you couldn't mark me with a pick-axe