"the European Union is really just communism without the secret police, bread queues and gulags"

One line from James Delingpole article https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/12/boris-vs-the-burqa-the-brexit-battle-begins/ struck me:

"the European Union is really just communism without the secret police, bread queues and gulags"

I think James Delingpole has forgotten to add the key word - YET.