Nelson De Bono, Mayor To The World

Because if there’s one thing voters value, it’s courageously traveling abroad to raise your international profile and speak platitudes to foreign audiences:

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, a virtual unknown not so long ago, is now determined to cultivate a profile on the international stage. And Wednesday brought his biggest foreign splash yet, a trans-Atlantic trip to Manchester, England, where Mr. de Blasio urged Labour Party leaders to adopt his theme of income inequality as they seek to retake 10 Downing Street next year.

Swapping out garbage pickup in Queens for the rarefied air of European politics can be a delicate balance for a mayor, barely nine months into the job, trying to run a city whose social problems are far from solved. Mr. de Blasio’s advisers say he remains focused on municipal matters above all else.

That you can accomplish all this while keeping a deft handle on things back home is even more inspiring:

A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2, the winter-weather prognosticator died of internal injuries — and then the coverup began, The Post has learned.

Staten Island Zoo officials went to great lengths to hide the death from the public and keep secret the fact that “Chuck” was actually “Charlotte,” a female imposter, sources said Wednesday.

The stand-in was found dead in her enclosure at the Staten Island Zoo on Feb. 9 — and a necropsy determined she died from “acute internal injuries,” sources said.

She had fallen nearly 6-feet when the mayor lost his grip during the Groundhog Day photo-op. Sources said her injuries were consistent with a fall.