Mr Collins said the victims had been vindicated "40 or 50 years too late".
The driving fear of failure, points out Mr Collins, is not unique to corporate life.
"It would mean that we can then maintain access for future generations to enjoy, " Mr Collins said.
Mr Collins had said illegal immigrants should be detained in closed down prisons such as HMP Shepton Mallet.
In a statement Steve Wood, the new UKIP Bristol branch chairman, confirmed Mr Collins no longer held the post.
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Mr Collins' original comments were reported in an interview with online magazine Vice.
BBC: UKIP Bristol chairman quits 'after immigration comment'
Mr Collins said he could not confirm whether all the victims seeking compensation formed part of the criminal court case.
Not according to Mr Collins: surely the point of being in business is to do something remarkable, not merely to survive?
Mr Collins, of Pannone law firm, said one of the 12 men is to sue Rochdale Council over the alleged abuse.
Mr Collins said proceedings were in the "very early stages" and he would be interviewing alleged victims over the next few weeks.
In 2010 Mr Collins received 1, 510 votes for the parliamentary seat of Bristol East which was won by Labour's Kerry McCarthy.
BBC: UKIP Bristol chairman quits 'after immigration comment'
"This is not a return to offending at any level comparable to the offence which brought the original sentence, " said Mr Collins.
Mr Collins is often criticised for seeing too much virtue in survival.
Options include further reducing or removing some services, finding new ways of delivering them or introducing or increasing charges, Mr Collins said.
Perhaps Mr Collins, now its managing director, simply picked the right time.
But Mr Collins said he could not "pay people twice" and that train drivers' salaries were all-inclusive and covered Boxing Day and Christmas Day.
Instead, Mr Collins advocates old-fashioned management virtues such as determination, discipline, calmness under pressure and strategic decision-making based on careful sifting of the evidence.
Mr Collins called for Reform to withdraw the "flawed" report before it did "further damage to Nottingham, its businesses, its universities and its reputation".
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Mr Collins said there were plans in the near future to give all council staff access to the bikes when on council business in Dumfries.
Kevin Speake, head of year at Mr Collins's former school of St Antony's Catholic College in Manchester, said the school was "devastated" to hear of his death.
Mr Collins, who is the council's cabinet member responsible for the economy and the environment, said 75% of people in the scheme had been offered lower tariffs.
Referring to previous 'cash-for-favours' claims, Mr Collins said the smallpox contract could be "another coincidence in a long chain of coincidences after Mittal, Enron and Formula One".
Mr Collins said he had stood down as chairman for personal reasons - but added he could not remember if he made the comments before or after he resigned.
BBC: UKIP Bristol chairman quits 'after immigration comment'
Hundreds of people later called on the coalition to reconsider the decision and Mr Collins said thousands of jobs in Kent and East Sussex were dependent on the power plant.
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Mr Collins, from Manchester-based law firm Pannone, said the reason more people had not gone to the police about Savile was because of how wide the Jersey historical abuse inquiry was.
"All of the Beatles joined the card game and the record was placed in the middle of the table, where it was used as a coaster for whisky glasses, " said Mr Collins.
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Mr Collins told the Court of Session in Edinburgh that the amount of cell space allocated to an inmate was apparently half that available to a prisoner at Pentonville jail in 1841.
And in contrast to the trust's statement that action had been taken, Mr Collins said in the last few weeks, patients had had to spend hours waiting on trolleys in the corridors.
"Mr Napier is currently being detained in conditions that were described as inhumane and degrading seven years ago, " said Mr Collins, who added that the service had had ample time to improve conditions.
Mr Collins, from Hove, and his sister, Liz Chambers, from Worthing, were bequeathed the ground-breaking album by their late father, Arthur, who ran the Normandie Hotel in London, where the two bands were staying.
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