An embarrassing day for right-wing blog Guido, who’ve been forced to back down on a story claiming £13k of Owen Jones’ General Election crowd-funding campaign had gone “missing.”

The libertarian blog claimed in a post entitled “MYSTERY OF OWEN’S MISSING £13,000 OF CROWDFUNDING” that Guardian columnist Owen Jones had promised to hand over £28k from a crowd-funding campaign, of which only £15k arrived at its destination:

However, it didn’t occur to Guido that it might be a smart idea to offer a right of reply to Jones:

1) Why didn't you get in touch with my first before writing an inaccurate blog which triggers a load of defamatory innuendo? — Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) August 24, 2017

2) The rest was donated to the campaigns, not CLPs, of Clive Lewis and Rosena Allin-Khan, who've declared on Register of Members' Interests. — Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) August 24, 2017

4) I'll be seeking legal advice to ascertain whether what you have written is defamatory. — Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) August 24, 2017

We all waited with bated breath for Guido to reveal the solution to the perplexing mystery of the missing £13,000:

So not a mystery – just shit journalism? — Manc Culture Bear (@mancculturebear) August 24, 2017

Jones stated that he’d be “seeking legal advice on this one.”