THE awarding of an OBE to a horse that stood and watched cars go past is proof once and for all that Britain is sane and rational. 

Lord Firebrand, who is known as Yogi in informal situations, was given the honour for his key roles in Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee celebrations and her funeral, both of which he definitely knew about and understood because he is a special horse.

A Palace spokesman said: “This is a perfectly normal thing for a country to be doing. It certainly isn’t the kind of thing we’d consider laughable if Slovenia did it.

“And comparisons to Caligula making a horse a senator are entirely misplaced. That was the act of a collapsing empire high on its own self-importance, nothing like Britain.

“Without this horse and his noble example, standing strong and never shedding a tear during the dark chapter in our history where Liz Truss was in Downing Street, the whole fabric of our nation could have been torn asunder. He deserves this.

“Personally I don’t think elevating him the House of Lords would be amiss. And if you’d seen the current Lords you’d understand why.”

Yogi added: “I do a lot of charity work but I don’t brag about it.”