Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: However , Gordon Moakes said on the group 's official Internet forum that the name was made by joining the eastern `` Blocs '' and the western `` parties '' , in the political sense .
Simplified: However , Moakes said on the group 's official Internet forum that it was more a merging of the eastern `` Blocs '' and the western `` parties '' , in the political sense .